Thief Tries To Hide Guitar In His Pants

The large guitar-shaped bulge in a man's pants tipped off a music store owner that there might be a crime in progress.

Clifton Lovell, owner of the guitar store in Texas was talking with a customer when he saw a man walking out of the store.

"I saw him walking out to his pickup truck and the bulges in his leather jacket. I said, 'Hey what have you got there'", Lovell said.

He said 29 year-old Morgan Conatser replied, "Nothing".

Lovell pointed to the large guitar-shaped bulges in Conatser's jacket and pants and said, "You've got something".

Conatser then removed a electric guitars from his pants leg and underneath his jacket.

"The neck of the guitar was almost down to his knee and the back of the guitar was almost up to his neck. It wasn't hard to spot. There was no way he could sit down or get into the pickup", Lovell said.

With the guitar back in the store, Lovell wasn't going to to call the sheriff's office. But then he noticed a wireless sound system was missing, after which he called the police.

Conatser was arrested on a charge of theft.

"This is a new one on me and I couldn't believe he tried", Lovell said, still surprised.

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