Just to satisfy Rick and Ebbie's curiosity about the fellow who murdered his father....

The guitar in question was my beat-up old LoPrinzi. It was (and still is) in such sad shape that I wasn't too worried about anyone hurting it, but the guy actually did treat it with care. I seriously doubt it had anything to do with his committing murder a few hours later. (Unless it just made him want a guitar of his own so badly that he went home and demanded that his father give him the money to buy one and then shot him when he refused.)   

And I'm actually not as protective of my instruments as my earlier post may have indicated. I'll loan an instrument to anyone that I think knows how to treat it well. It's the drunks that leave their barstools and come staggering over wanting to play a song that raise my hackles.

Bruce