Which one of you jerks stole my subwoofer?

ZaneNBK

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Music sounded off when I was driving to lunch today, lacking bass, so I tried turning up the sub a bit and didn't get any response. I noticed the power light was off on the remote, so I pulled into a parking lot to check and see if a cable had come loose. It had, all of them, and the sub had fled the supposed safety of my trunk.

It's possible the sub chose to run away rather than live with my horrible taste in music, but I choose to believe it was taken against it's will since I'm an optimist.

Apparently my Hyundai Sonata had decided to engage in one of it's more joyous activities of randomly popping my trunk open the previous day and someone noticed a nice sub sitting there ready to be liberated and decided it was free sub day. Yippee! They were smart enough to close the trunk after so I wouldn't notice for a day.

The radio was behaving oddly yesterday and audio stopped playing though the head-unit was otherwise working. I had thought maybe a loose connection or oddly located short caused it, but after driving around a little while and going over another bump the audio came back on. I was listening at a pretty low volume so I didn't notice I had a lot less bass than normal. Turns out it was a short, the ends of the power leads for the sub were loose in the trunk and had touched. I'm lucky more permanent damage wasn't done.

I did learn four valuable lessons:

1) Screw Hyundai's crappy sensitive key fob that keeps opening my trunk.
2) I can, and will, disable remote trunk opening from now on.
3) Always bolt down your subs. If it had been bolted down it would probably still be there. They didn't steal the 4-channel amp bolted next to it, so I doubt they would've gotten the sub if it was bolted down as well.
4) Record serial numbers for any aftermarket gear in your car. With the S/N the cops can search a database of items sold to pawn shops to check for your property, without it you're screwed. Apparently the box for my JBL powered sub doesn't have the S/N on the outside of it, it's only directly on the sub.
 
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Waiting for the parody thread of someone seeing a trunk open with a sign of "free for a good home" next to a sub-woofer.
 

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I figure I'll go sub shopping at pawn shops in a couple of weeks (think they have to hold items 14 days here before reselling them) and go buy the JBL sub that just happened to be pawned close to the time mine was stolen and is missing it's wired remote, remote cable, manual and box. I'll be checking Craigslist as well but so far they haven't been that stupid unfortunately.
 

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I figure I'll go sub shopping at pawn shops in a couple of weeks (think they have to hold items 14 days here before reselling them) and go buy the JBL sub that just happened to be pawned close to the time mine was stolen and is missing it's wired remote, remote cable, manual and box. I'll be checking Craigslist as well but so far they haven't been that stupid unfortunately.
If I ever happen to drive to Bentonville for one of the several trips I make there a year I'll give you a pair of JBL 10's in a box...they're just collecting dust in my garage right now
 

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Where are you in Rogers? I live in Decatur now, but I lived in Rogers, Bentonville, and Centerton... I never really cared for Rogers, I suppose the closer you get to Pinnacle the better it gets, but Rogers, nah...

I haven't had anything stolen from me in NWA thankfully. I had some stuff stolen from me when I lived in Hope and Texarkana both... Both times my home was broken into... Not fun.
 

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Waiting for the parody thread of someone seeing a trunk open with a sign of "free for a good home" next to a sub-woofer.

There's a JBL sub for sale in FS/T.

Maybe it was one of us jerks that stole it!
 

ZaneNBK

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If I ever happen to drive to Bentonville for one of the several trips I make there a year I'll give you a pair of JBL 10's in a box...they're just collecting dust in my garage right now

That would be cool, thanks. What do you do in Bentonville, attempt to commune with the Wal-mart high priests?

The sub that was stolen was a JBL GT-BassPro12 I got in July (http://www.amazon.com/JBL-GT-BassPro...l+gt-basspro12 ). It was very nice for a self-powered sub. Very well built, heavy construction and the sound was great. Put out much more power than I needed. I generally kept it at around 30%.
 

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Where are you in Rogers? I live in Decatur now, but I lived in Rogers, Bentonville, and Centerton... I never really cared for Rogers, I suppose the closer you get to Pinnacle the better it gets, but Rogers, nah...

I haven't had anything stolen from me in NWA thankfully. I had some stuff stolen from me when I lived in Hope and Texarkana both... Both times my home was broken into... Not fun.

I'm near Reagan Elementary, back behind the old Malco theater and restaurant row. I've lived in Bentonville, Centerton and Rogers and like this area the best so far. We're close to everything with quick freeway access and a nice neighborhood. I'm pretty sure my sub was stolen in downtown Rogers, mid-day, while I was parked in an alley/side-street.
 

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I don't really call that area Rogers, even though it is... I consider it more of Bentonville... restaurant row over, to me, is Bentonville. I was talking more like over Neighborhood Market on 71 being the part of Rogers I don't care for, and that is where I used to live... I was really happy to get out of that area...

Being in downtown Rogers I wouldn't be surprised someone took it in broad daylight. There is a descent Mexican restaurant in that area, otherwise it is only good for heading out to Beaver.

Do you work for Wal-Mart in some capacity?

Oh, sorry to hear about someone lifting your subwoofer...

You are over by Chick Fil A aren't you?
 
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That would be cool, thanks. What do you do in Bentonville, attempt to commune with the Wal-mart high priests?

The sub that was stolen was a JBL GT-BassPro12 I got in July (http://www.amazon.com/JBL-GT-BassPro...l+gt-basspro12 ). It was very nice for a self-powered sub. Very well built, heavy construction and the sound was great. Put out much more power than I needed. I generally kept it at around 30%.

My company has a small office there, 17 people, that handle all our Wal-Mart business and I'm their tech support, I come out for a few days every couple months to make them feel special;) That is a nice sub, the ones I have aren't powered, just some 10 year old JBL 10's in a hatchback box, but they sound good still...hooked them up a couple months ago to make sure they still worked, odds are I'll never drive out there though, 7 hours is pretty long and probably cost my company more in mileage and drive time than when they fly me:\ Wonder how much it would cost to ship a 40+ lb box?
 

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I don't really call that area Rogers, even though it is... I consider it more of Bentonville... restaurant row over, to me, is Bentonville. I was talking more like over Neighborhood Market on 71 being the part of Rogers I don't care for, and that is where I used to live... I was really happy to get out of that area...

Being in downtown Rogers I wouldn't be surprised someone took it in broad daylight. There is a descent Mexican restaurant in that area, otherwise it is only good for heading out to Beaver.

Do you work for Wal-Mart in some capacity?

Oh, sorry to hear about someone lifting your subwoofer...

You are over by Chick Fil A aren't you?

There's also a really good Thai restaurant on the square in Rogers now, Red Curry. (Really good for NWA anyway) Yeah, there's a Chick-Fil-A on Walnut, turn left there and you head back towards Reagan Elementary and my subsdivision is a little NE of that.

I moved out here to work for Wal-mart 6.5 years ago in ISD, but they hired me as a Senior Programmer/Analyst and then wanted me to write reports all day. I lasted 3 months before I decided I needed to get back into a real programming position. I've been working at home for a small company doing development ever since.
 

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My company has a small office there, 17 people, that handle all our Wal-Mart business and I'm their tech support, I come out for a few days every couple months to make them feel special;) That is a nice sub, the ones I have aren't powered, just some 10 year old JBL 10's in a hatchback box, but they sound good still...hooked them up a couple months ago to make sure they still worked, odds are I'll never drive out there though, 7 hours is pretty long and probably cost my company more in mileage and drive time than when they fly me:\ Wonder how much it would cost to ship a 40+ lb box?

It's a nice thought but don't bother. If I don't recover mine in the next few weeks I'll buy another and get it bolted down.
 

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I had a buddy that went to ISD and had a program mostly built before he even started there and they told him he would need to spend about 24 months preparing to develop the program... He didn't make it but about 3 months as well. ISD is nuts... I cannot believe how big that place is for what it does... Yes, retail link is a huge data warehouse, I know, it isn't a data warehouse, but a frontend for their POS data... but outside of that, a huge data warehouse, why do you need 1000's of people to manage a data warehouse...??? The damn thing breaks down all the time anyway...
 

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I had a buddy that went to ISD and had a program mostly built before he even started there and they told him he would need to spend about 24 months preparing to develop the program... He didn't make it but about 3 months as well. ISD is nuts... I cannot believe how big that place is for what it does... Yes, retail link is a huge data warehouse, I know, it isn't a data warehouse, but a frontend for their POS data... but outside of that, a huge data warehouse, why do you need 1000's of people to manage a data warehouse...??? The damn thing breaks down all the time anyway...

You a vendor or Walmartian?

ISD can be tough, if you get in the right group it can be good, if you get in the wrong one it can be not so good. However, Wal-mart does do a ton for the community here so I'm happy to live in the area and take advantage of that. The area is awesome IMO, especially Bentonville.
 

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Just think about all the tax money WM pumps in to the area... I mean the indoor practice arena for Bentonville football is nuts...

I have been on all sides of the business for Walmart. I worked at the home office, I worked at a few vendors, I worked at a software company that supported vendors, and now I work for a consulting firm that services WM and vendors.
 

ZaneNBK

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Just think about all the tax money WM pumps in to the area... I mean the indoor practice arena for Bentonville football is nuts...

I have been on all sides of the business for Walmart. I worked at the home office, I worked at a few vendors, I worked at a software company that supported vendors, and now I work for a consulting firm that services WM and vendors.

Nice. If this job ever goes south I might have to look you up. I had an open invitation back to Wal-mart but...
 

rifken2

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certainly let me know if you are looking... we guys have to look out for one another. Right now I think the only development positions open that I know of are for a GIS firm that manages water tables or some such... One of my former managers is the VP there now... as well as the software firm I used to work at, they are always kind of looking for programmers, but the CTO there has an odd style of development...