Lyrics & Knowledge Personal Pages Record Shop Auction Links Radio & Media Kids Membership Help
The Mudcat Cafesj

Post to this Thread - Sort Descending - Printer Friendly - Home


Lost or stolen items... ID microchips

Related threads:
Stolen Instruments: Chester UK (3)
ALERT Stolen Instruments (36)
Save for Joe (1) (closed)
Larkspur. Stolen Instruments (29)
News: Leonard Barry uileann pipes stolen (2)
Guitar Stolen - Dougie Maclean (3)
Stolen Banjo [Tenor, in Glasgow] (9)
Stolen Wheatstone Concertina (UK) (9)
Unique bass guitar stolen at Edale fest (2)
Stolen Gibson J200 (11)
Stolen Van and Gear (UK) (5)
San Francisco/Bay area stolen guitar alert (6)
Story of a stolen Les Paul guitar (11)
Stupid mistake, stolen guitar (43)
Stolen Guitars... Italy. (3)
Stolen instruments -Wiltshire UK (19)
Tommy Peoples's fiddle stolen in London (12)
Music equipment stolen from Rick Lucas (6)
Angus Lyon Lost Accordion (14)
Stolen instruments - Nottingham (11)
Stolen Melodeons (25)
Stolen bouzouki (Galway, Ireland - Sept 2007) (28)
Lost pipes -John McSherry whilst in Zaragoza/Spain (3)
Stolen Instrument Alert, Toronto (7)
Stolen viola (South West of the UK) (16)
Don Ross: gear stolen in Montreal (3)
Found instruments (24)
Stolen banjo (10)
Stolen bouzouki - Sidmouth Week (5)
Stolen Caravans and Instuments (40)
Stolen guitars (26)
Stolen Guitars (6)
Stolen Instruments (10)
Stolen Instruments - US (4)
Alan bell stolen concertina (70)
missing melodeon (North East UK) (12)
Toronto:Stolen Guitar (43)
Stolen Guitar London (32)
Tracing a Banjo (19)
O'Brien family band instruments stolen/recovered (17)
Lunasa Theft/trauma (4)
Stolen Guitar (8)
Stolen guitar: Oakville, Ontario, Canada (21) (closed)
David Grismans mandola stolen (10)


gnu 28 Jun 12 - 03:44 PM
GUEST,leeneia 28 Jun 12 - 04:44 PM
Leadfingers 28 Jun 12 - 06:51 PM
maeve 28 Jun 12 - 09:13 PM
JohnInKansas 28 Jun 12 - 10:51 PM
Share Thread
more
Lyrics & Knowledge Search [Advanced]
DT  Forum Child
Sort (Forum) by:relevance date
DT Lyrics:





Subject: Lost or stolen items... ID microchips
From: gnu
Date: 28 Jun 12 - 03:44 PM

Cool.


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lost or stolen items... ID microchips
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 28 Jun 12 - 04:44 PM

Thanks, gnu. At $20 a piece, it sounds like a good investment for fine instruments.


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lost or stolen items... ID microchips
From: Leadfingers
Date: 28 Jun 12 - 06:51 PM

Check that price - I see $99 . 95 ! Reasonable for my D 35 perhaps


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lost or stolen items... ID microchips
From: maeve
Date: 28 Jun 12 - 09:13 PM

The last sentence of the description says clearly, "Includes five microchips. "


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lost or stolen items... ID microchips
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 28 Jun 12 - 10:51 PM

The theory is certainly good, but the remaining difficulty is that someone (other than the thief) has to (1) have a scanner, and (2) know that an item might be chipped, and (3) put the two together and actually scan the item and look up the registration number that's found.

The chip is useful as proof of identification but that generally will only come up when you've got the thief in front of the judge (magistrate). The chip won't be much help in finding a lost item that could be in lots of unknown places. All of the usual "take good care of your stuff" rules still must be applied.

The same chips have been in fairly widespread use for tagging animals for several decades. We've had three tagged pets lost, all of which were tagged, and none have ever been identified.

Nearly all veterinarians will have scanners, and are "supposed to" scan any animal that comes in "with questionable identity" but none that I've heard of actually bother to do so, unless the person bringing the animal in asks them to do it.

Disposal of dead animals (road kill?) in normal "trash" is prohibited by law, and some of the disposal service people are quite conscientious about refusing to pick them up and/or referring them to other places for proper disposal. For "non-commercial" animals, the only proper disposal in my area is at the "Humane Society1," and they claim to have a "policy" of scanning any pet-like animals, dead or alive - but they almost never do.

1 Used here as the generic place where people take lost animals - not necessarily the same name used elsewhere and not necessarily a place associated with either "official channels" or any animal protection organization.

The chips have been so seldom used for "hardware" that I doubt that the majority of "hock shops" - or even more traditional "dealers" - even have a scanner.

The local cop that I asked about it (in the robbery division) said "I think they have one in the autopsy lab."

The chips are a very good idea, and should be considered as a way to positively identify anything if you'd go to court over it, but we've found them of rather marginal helpfulness for our small family members, where they're very commonly used. (But all our current pets do carry chips, since it's still possible we just haven't encountered the situation where they work.)

So far as I've heard, the is no national registry of chip numbers, and we've found the record keeping for pet chip registrations "sloppy" (being generous) but if you can include that a chip is in a lost item, and provide the chip number from your own records in your police report, it might be helpful - after they use your clear photo of the item and it's "visibly identifiable features and markings" to find it.

John


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate
  Share Thread:
More...

Reply to Thread
Subject:  Help
From:
Preview   Automatic Linebreaks   Make a link ("blue clicky")


Mudcat time: 10 October 10:54 AM EDT

[ Home ]

All original material is copyright © 2022 by the Mudcat Café Music Foundation. All photos, music, images, etc. are copyright © by their rightful owners. Every effort is taken to attribute appropriate copyright to images, content, music, etc. We are not a copyright resource.