Here's an interesting bit of news. In the parkade where I park my car every day ("...what else does one do in a car park?"), something completely unexpected happened. Someone broke into violinist Esther Boisvert's car.

Something like this could never be forseen. No one could have noticed that on many mornings there are little piles of broken auto glass next to several stalls. The gigantic signs posted by Vancouver Police that warn about theft are, of course, to be generally ignored too. And the shifty-looking guys carrying baseball bats are probably just showing up to play a game of ball with their friends. So Esther can be forgiven for leaving a $600,000 Stradivarius in the trunk of her car.

Fortunately, within 45 minutes the thief who stole it tried to pawn the Strad without ID... next to a police officer, who was in the shop conducting an audit.

Article on CBC.ca: Stradivarius recovered before reported stolen

Article on Canada.com: Thief fiddled around too long in the wrong pawnshop