[ngcles]

Hi Rob,

Rotten mongrels indeed -- hope you get it back somehow.

After spending 23-odd years in the police (in a former life), I've investigated dozens of break and enter charges and as a prosecutor in court I must have prosecuted more than a thousand of them -- but the impact they have never really hit home with me 'till its was my home they broke into.

Scumbags.

Beside notifying the pawn shops, I'd also be contacting all the major vendors in your region because when someone inevitably tries to pawn/sell it, many pawn-brokers will ring someone like BINTEL or York etc etc to get an approximate valuation. If the vendors know about the 'scope, the more likely you are to get it back. You have to realise the pawnbrokers have little interest in getting thiings back to their lawful owners -- they are after all, only "officially state-licensed" receivers of stolen goods.

Hope your Megrez finds its way back home real soon!


Best,

Les D