Keep your instruments away from exterminator!

[tjmangum]

Blind woman loses Gibson Loar Mandolin to exterminator....mando ends up at Heritage Auction! Another one of those, "You can't make these stories up."
http://lacrossetribune.com/news/loc...cle_ab25ff0e-0096-11e3-b831-0019bb2963f4.html

 

[jcwu]

Gibsons are pests, so I'd say the man was only doing his job.

 

[kitniyatran]

But it was a Gibson mando worth 1 to 2 HUNDRED thousand dollars! A real insult to the rest of us in his line of work.

 

[southernGuild]

A real insult to the rest of us in his line of work.

So, In this case, the Exterminator is the Vermin!
What a low act. I wonder how many other clients he has fleeced over the years.

 

[Terry Allan Hall]

Bakke told investigators he planned to sell the instrument as a “surprise” to help improve the woman’s living conditions, reports stated.

Need a SERIOUS butt-kickin'!

 

[bobdcat]

I knew bug spray is not kind to instrument finishes, but this is excessive!