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A man stole a number of brand new Mont Blanc pens from the showcase at Dromgoole's on Tuesday. The video is on thier FB page but I will try to post it here. Let's help catch this guy!

https://www.facebook.com/patrick.barnes.980/posts/1545551632125452?comment_id=1545556238791658&reply_comment_id=1545559062124709&notif_t=feed_comment&notif_id=1474576862196510

Pat Barnes a.k.a. billz

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That's pretty brazen. They did, however, get some really clear pictures of the guy, so there's some hope he'll be caught.

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He won't get away for long. That was excellent video. Someone will turn him in. I just hope he's not a member

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Perhaps when he's caught, his sentence could include being used to test ink toxicity while incarcerated. Requiring he consume two 50 ml samples per day to test for toxicity would help us all and he could repay his debt to society as well as to Dromgoole's? Assuming he survives the ink consumption.

"History Teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." Abba Eban

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Glad it sort of worked. Never tried it before but this was a special case. Those people are my friends for the last 7 years. The first 5 they let me hang out at the shop while my wife was undergoing chemotherapy at M.D. Anderson Cancer center. When she passed in July of 2014 the first sympathy card I got was from the Dromgoole's and staff.

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Jon Szanto shared Dromgoole's fb post and commented that he hoped the guy wasn't stupid enough to try to sell them at the Dallas pen show, but I'm hoping he does try, is recognized and arrested.

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Jon Szanto shared Dromgoole's fb post and commented that he hoped the guy wasn't stupid enough to try to sell them at the Dallas pen show, but I'm hoping he does try, is recognized and arrested.

 

Oh...there's a thought. I'll be there on Saturday. If I find this guy, he's going down...

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Glad it sort of worked. Never tried it before but this was a special case. Those people are my friends for the last 7 years. The first 5 they let me hang out at the shop while my wife was undergoing chemotherapy at M.D. Anderson Cancer center. When she passed in July of 2014 the first sympathy card I got was from the Dromgoole's and staff.

 

My condolences about your wife, but man, this does endear the shop to me even more! I've ordered a few times and had very good experiences, myself (those Noodler's exclusives!).

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Looks like my son-in-law. But he's in Italy, and anyhow, he wouldn't know or care for a fountain pen if it stabbed him in the butt. Not to mention, he's as honest as they come and would never.

 

I second the hope that this guy will try to sell his swag at the Dallas Pen Show and get caught.

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Dromgoole's is one of my favorite places, even though I live far away and can only get there once in a great while if I am in Houston on business.

 

I hope they catch the guy real soon and cover him with Bay State Blue before tossing him in the, uhhhh.... pen.

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May the pens bring him only unhappiness and the experience lead him to repentance. Meanwhile, I hope he is caught and convicted and that Dromgroole's receives them back, undamaged.

 

I hope D's will post a stolen inventory so we can know what to look for.

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