Owner: Man Tried to Hide Guitar in Pants

National Examiner ^ | November 28, 2006

[Zakeet]

DE QUEEN, Ark. - The guitar-shaped bulge in Morgan Conatser's clothing tipped off a music store owner that there might be a crime in progress. Clifton Lovell, owner of Guitars and Cadillacs on U.S. Highway 71 in De Queen, was talking with a customer last week when he saw Conatser, 29, 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,'" Clifton Lovell said.

He said Conatser, 29, replied, "Nothing."

Lovell pointed toward the unnatural shapes in Conatser's jacket and pants and said, "You've got something."

Conatser then removed a solid body electric guitar from his pants leg and from 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 didn't intend to call the sheriff's office. But then he discovered a wireless sound system was missing. Lovell called the Sevier County Sheriff's Department and gave a description of Conatser and his pickup.

[Zakeet]

Let'er rip.

[garyhope]

Maybe he was just "glad to see someone".

It cudda been a gun or a banana.

[kenth]

He said Conatser, 29, replied, "Nothing."

"I'm just happy to see you."

[AxelPaulsenJr]

As Mae West once said: "You happy to see me, or ya just got someting in your pants".

[Mr. Lucky]

I suppose this will lead us to some new "bass fiddle" jokes.

[Sax]

All the better to serenade you my dear. Allow me to unzip and release the sweet melody.

[RightResponse]

Don't fret it....

[YouPosting2Me]

"Don't touch my Axe!"

[ErnBatavia]

"Is that a Stratocaster in your pocket, or are you glad to see me?"

[MetalHeadConservative35]

weeg, do the honors please?

[ErnBatavia]

"Is that a Stratocaster in your pocket, or are you glad to see me?"

[garyhope]

I wonder if it was a Strat, a Telecaster, Flying A, Les Paul?

Solid body or hollow body?

[Silly]

Maybe he was trying to make up for having the world's smallest... violin.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

[jaydubya2]

Electric twanger?

[RckyRaCoCo]

that's one way to wear a G string

[RckyRaCoCo]

guess you could say the guy had a fender wrapped around his bender

[Fresh Wind]

Conatser was issued a misdemeanor citation and released.

I guess shoplifting isn't a big deal any more.

[Young Werther]

Let it Rip!

If he bends over there's no telling what he might rip!

[kstewskis]

my guess is that it wasn't a ukulele.