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December 08, 2007 |
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To The Thief Who Stole My Leather Pants
FOUND by Jennifer Cline
in Echo Park / Los Angeles, California
Imagine my glee after stumbling across this impassioned plea while on a stroll through Echo Park. Without a doubt, my best find thus far.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Before Found, I had no idea how common pants theft is. I have leather pants that I bought at a most wonderful store in Portland, Oregon where EVERYTHING costs $3.00, called The $3.00 Store. They fit perfectly, and they are lined; I love them. Oh wait. I just went looking for them, and noticed they are missing. That's weird.
i dont understand what "those were very sen,-oh wait i get it, senitmental...thats an i not a comma
i hope he got them back.
:(
I'm not sure I WANT to know their value...
I sure hope they get those pants back! I especially like the "out of my truck" part so they know these pants from the other pairs of leather pants they heisted that day.
At first I thought it said "they were sent mental to me."
I can totally relate to this person. I know how it feels to have sentimental pants stolen, believe you me.
Clover, I work in Beaverton and have never heard of a store where things are only 3$, please tell me it's still around?
The pants are sentimental because he wore them in the 80's when they were actually in style and fit him. Now though he's a chubby, 40-something has-been rocker and he kept them in his truck where the smell (a combo of leather, Pierre Cardin and clove cigarettes) reminded him of days gone by.
I'm hoping it's Stacy London who stole those pants out of his truck.
If they're so sentimental, why were they in your truck in the first place, and not on your body?
It doesn't matter, because nobody should ever wear pants made completely from leather.
Angela, I grew up in Beaverton, but I hardly recognize it anymore.
The $3 Store is in Milwaukie. It's along a busy road, near other thrift stores, like Goodwill, Salvation Army, etc. I think it's the main road that goes through that area. I'm not that familiar with the SE side, but my parents lived there for about a year and that's when I discovered those stores. Last time I shopped there was two years ago, so I don't know if the $3 Store is still there.
Once I was lucky to be visiting during a sale: everything in the back room was half off. As if $3 wasn't enough of a good deal. I'm not kidding, some of the stuff I bought that day I still wear frequently.
I still can't find my leather pants, though. h-m-m-m ...
a pair of used leather pants might get you $25 if you hock them, but the memories will last a lifetime.
I like how they went back to add the "from my truck" part to distinguish from another thief who may have stolen leather pants from an apartment or locker room.
Or maybe the "from my truck" part was to let other readers (maybe he/she knew it would be on found someday!) that the pants were NOT on his/her body at the time...? Then again, that'd be a whole different note all together!
I don't think I've ever had sentimental pants. Maybe I shall need some!
look. you might be wearing my pants, but you'll never really be *in* them.
rotten bastard.
p.s. and to everyone who warned me off searching out that video--> my most sincere thanks. I'm sensitive enough to that kind of stuff and try to limit exposure to things which will make me more grossed out/ upset/ misanthropic...:-))
I can just imagine. I bet he saved up all his money from his very first job at McDonald's, just waiting to have enough money to buy those wicked awesome leather pants from the Hot Topic or whatever they had in the eighties. And then he showed them off to all his friends and danced around to bad hair metal, creating fond memories he would hold dear to his heart for all his life...
I think I might have my decades mixed up.
Perhaps the poor fellow really DID have several pairs of leather pants stolen that day: from his house, his boat, his wheelbarrow and his truck. It's just the pants from the truck that he wants back though. The others were of little sent,mental value.
It reminded me of http://foundmagazine.com/find/243
this find. As I remembered it, it also started out "to the thief".. but I mis-remebered it.
Was it Jim Morrison who always wore the same leather pants, and reputedly never washed them? Funky.
"Donde estan tus pantelones?"
"El Diablo tiene mis pantelones!"
I don't like to say "pants" because in Ireland it is a derogatory term for a female or something like that. I dated a couple Irish...I prefer "trousers."
And he forms the same letters differently.
I feel like my life is lacking. I've never had a pair of sentimental pants, let alone LEATHER sentimental pants. A new goal to aim for. I wonder if I have time before the new year??
I'm sorry but when someone says leather pants...I immediately jump to the episode of Friends where Ross got stuck in a pair....now onto seriously talking about this find...it really does suck when someone takes something of yours that really has no value to them....why some people feel inclined to just take stuff is beyond me...hope the pants end up on his doorstep for Christmas!
That pair was the 100th pair I've stolen, and the 1st pair from a truck; thus they're equally sentimental for me, and he's never getting them back. Never.
Now he's going to have to write a note that says, "To the thief who stole my note to the thief who stole my leather pants..."
"Gonna take a sentimental journey
Gonna set my heart at ease
Gonna take a sentimental journey
To renew old memories..."
i know what it's like to have pants stolen (in a way). in 1987 i had a pair of jams stolen from my locker at the ymca. lesson learned: use a lock.
That's so weird! For some reason I was just thinking of a leather coat I once stole from Troll's. A long time ago when I used to steal.
1. what are sentimental leather pants doing all alone in the back of a truck in the first place?
2. i sorta dig the fact
4. that this was in echo park. if i were to MAKE UP a story about stolen sentimental leather pants, i would set it in echo park.
3. to kdawg: ha!
4. just curious: has anyone had any luck regaining lost/stolen items with signs such as these? (sincere question)
I am going to ask my bandmates if we can call our band Sentimental Pants.
I wonder if they also had a riding crop?
LEATHER PANTS? I HOPE THAT ASSHOLE'S ENTIRE WARDROBE WAS STOLEN
Always look for the silver lining... It was a freezing homeless guy (by no fault of his own) and he just could not resist when he saw these warm leather pants not warming anyone up. So, although he does see not their sentimental value, they mean the world to him.... Ok now you can go back to cursing him :)
Looks like someone's lucky pants are missing. This is a terrible feeling. I used to have lucky shorts in high school/college. Even when I lent them to my friends the luck went with the shorts.
Villa:
I've left one or two notes like this out of desperation when things have been lost or stolen-- never worked!
My whole car was stole one (actually 3 times) and my laudry was in the trunk. My favorite Jon-Luc-Ponty t-shirt was in there. I still think of that shirt to this day and that was 25 years ago.
Dr. Pepper, you need to proof man.
He/she was actually done a big favor, I think. No one, but no one, looks good in leather pants!
One hand, you got that right.
I once had a pleather coat stolen from the bar. I was more sad about my favorite lipstick being in the pocket and I had picked up some poetry that a guy wrote on the back of a flyer that was just laying on the floor than I was about the coat.
Dr. Pepper, I had brand new pants and a shirt stolen 25 years ago while in college. My mom had just given them to me for my birthday. I, too, still think of that outfit to this day... and how stupid and trusting I was to leave them out where some 'thief' could take 'em.
I want some sentimental leather pants.: )
"Those pants once belonged to my father. He wore them the night I was conceived."
I guess it's the influence of two years of living with a British roommate, but when I read 'pants' I thought underwear.
A sentimental pair of leather undergarmets. Now that would be something to see. Did he/she lose her knee-high leather boots and feather boa as well?
"Pants" has been a running kids' joke for a decade or so. If something is bad, it's "pants", as in "That movie is complete pants." If it's really bad, it's "a pile of pants." And you can add or embroider insult as the spirit moves you. So if your sister's boyfriend is "a pile of pink, frilly pants" you are not necessarily implying he's gay...just that he's stupid, boring or whatever.
Sorry, that should read "a running kids' joke in the UK". I'm tired today.
The stuff I have to read for Eng Lit II is definitely a pile of pink frilly pants with white lace and bells on!
Becky: 1987: Jams! Ba ha ha ha!!
Hi everyone,
My name is Al – Sent. Ment Al. The situation is under control. Everybody calms down. The leather pants have been found and put back in a track. I would like to thank my entire team for their support and understanding during operation.
Sincerely yours,
Prof. Dr. Al – FBI agent
Back to the pants vs. trousers debate. What if it said, "To the thief who stole my leather trousers..."? Would the rest of the note go, "... out of my lorry..."?
The solution is simple: keep your lorry locked and then no one can steal your sentimental trousers.
I have sentimental pants. Hell, I have several pairs of sentimental pants.
"Brooding about sensuous objects makes attachment to them grow; from attachment desire arises, from desire anger is born.From anger comes confusion; from confusion memory lapses; from broken memory understanding is lost; from loss of understanding, he is ruined."
Let the leather pants go.
LOL @ kdawg's comment
I had a sentimental pair of pants once. Now my pants are just moody.
I see London! I see France!
I see Sentimental pants!
oh how I long for those leather pant days. Quick, kajagoogoo is on.
"Sentimental Leathers"
I'm gonna take some Sentimental Trousers,
Gonna see my buns aroused.
Gonna steal some Sentimental Pants,
Just to read some trucker's rants.
I got my bags, I got my reservations,
Spent each dime I could afford.
Like a child in wild anticipation,
Long to hear that, "All aboard!"
Seven...that's the time we leave at seven.
I'll be waitin' up at heaven,
Countin' every mile of railroad track, that takes me back.
I never knew my butt could be so housed.
Why did I decide to rhyme?
I'm rather be Sentimentally Troused,
Sentimental Pants are mine.
Gee, I love these Sentimental Leathers.
Sentimental Leathers
in any sort of weather
Are for me...
(with apologies to Doris Day and Renee Olmstead)
I think we are getting away from the real issue here. This person is clearly in pain because he suffered a loss. Who are we to judge his values? Maybe we should be a little more sensitive. I really REALLY hope he got his leather pants back. I also hope that one day I am capable of feeling such deep and raw sentimentality
When are we NOT getting away from the real issue? Haha!
It's too bad his property was stolen, but real sentiment is in one's heart and memories. Sometimes pants are just pants.
8-)
Some people wear their heart on their sleeve. Apparently this guy wore his in his pants!
I think you're sensitive enough for all of us Lily.
hahaha well i guess thats what you get for keeping your favorite pair of leather pants in your truck.
you may say that no one can get away with leather pants anymore, but I think if anyone can, it's clover.
For Sale: 1 pair of leather pants. Gently used. Email laserSoup@leatherpantsforsale.com
I wouldn't mind seeing that Johnathan Rhees Myers in some leather pants.
i don't know, he's kind of a strange looking fellow
self inflicted haircut... better yet, (for me) Kurt Wilde!!! Leather pants!!! OMG... Yum yum yummm...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEb3bN_SRgs
*CAUTION... This You Tube video features Ewan McGregor, getting naked and somewhat raunchy. don't watch it if you're gonna get offended. If you do, don't blame me.* </disclaimer>
Oh. And. Plenty of Johathan Rhys Myers in leather/pleather on the Velvet Goldmine, too.
Well Searching! That was very entertaining. I'm going to hafta go buy me some Velvet Goldmine.
Dude! I did you a FAVOR when I took those pants... now please seek the professional help you so obviously need. Also, thank you for dotting the one lowercase I in your note. It helps me to differentiate between that one and the others (which are now clearly capital I's).
I wore them to my first Poison concert. Almost--almost--got laid in 'em too.
Charlotte and Curious in Charlotte, that's funny about the moody trousers and attachment to sensuous objects. :)
I still can't find mine. But heck, I'm not feeling moody about it. They only cost $3.
I have a pair of black velvet trousers. I'm told they're quite sexy.
My hubby has 2 pairs of leather pants, and 1 pair of leather chaps,however, he is a biker. He wears HIS leathers all the time...and the chicks go freakin' wild for them!! I swear!
Anyhoo, this guy should of been wearing them, not driving them around in his truck as if THEY were his g/f.
Sentimental.
Not he (she?) likes to wear them out and about, or they were expensive...
but they hold sentimental value for him.
This is quite funny. However, without fail, EVERYONE who condemns others for wearing leather pants does so out of jealousy. Either they are: a) too fat or ugly to wear them or b) can't set aside enough from their welfare check to buy a pair and still afford 6 Budweiser in the same month.
"To the thief who took the leather pants from my truck: tinea cruris, a skin infection caused by a fungus that thrives in warm, moist areas of the body, affects the genitals, inner thighs and buttocks. Infections occur more frequently in the summer or in warm, wet climates. The condition can be spread from person to person through direct contact or indirectly from objects carrying infected scales. Symptoms include itching, chafing, or burning in the groin, thigh, or anal area; a circular, red, raised rash with elevated edges; infected streaks that have an appearance similar to stretch marks; and flaking, peeling, or cracking skin with an overall foul odor throughout the affected area. Prescription ointments and oral anti-fungals may be needed for up to 60 days. Once it has cleared up, you might want to have the pants dry cleaned before wearing them again. Have a nice day!"
http://www.banterist.com/archivefiles/000286.html
MC2, that's hilarious!!!
I searched youtube for leather pants to find something funny to say, and all I found were videos of women in leather or gay guys wresting or groping themselves. Thank you for finding something truly funny to add.
"They belonged to my best friend who died last year." [Found 243 - thanks, Captain]
"At least we can safely assume she got panty crickets." [Found 1524 - thanks, Mur]
Who? "Little Miss Popular Pants." [Found 958 - thanks, Cheryl in Edina]
"I am thinking these were leather pants, left to air out and then stolen by Roger Taylor for the big Duran Duran come back tour." [Found 2462 - thanks, Whimsymonkey]
Let's all help Clover find her leather pants! Please let go of all your thoughts and look around your mind. Are they in the closet, in a drawer, in a box with old sweaters? Did you hang them in the laundry room or store them with your camping gear? Did they take you dancing in Dublin or in France? Were you going to wear them to a FOUND event that didn't come to pass? Might your children have used them to dress up in a play? Did you give them to a dear friend on a wet and cold day? You're getting very sleepy now but when you come awake, you'll see those magic leather pants exactly in their place.
"...EVERYONE who condemns others for wearing leather pants does so out of jealousy. Either they are: a) too fat or ugly to wear them or b) can't set aside enough from their welfare check to buy a pair and still afford 6 Budweiser in the same month."
Very funny :) I agree with you, Hal. Perhaps you should have replaced "6 Budweiser" with "monster truck rally", but your point is clear. Finally, someone actually came forward and said it: only trailer trash and lardbutts give us good looking people with a few extra dollars to spend on NICE clothes a hard time for wearing them.
the fact that he used the correct form of their has restored my fleeting faith in humanity
Angelica in USA: Loved your comment! You had me going there for about 30 seconds. Have you met Hotmom yet?
Hmmm...I hope my comment doesn't read as being sarcastic towards Hal, because it's not. I really do agree with him. I wear leather pants often; they go well with my trim figure and natural blond hair. Plus, they project and edgy personality - I love that about them.
Dont' get me wrong; I respect peoples' opinions and all, but I'm kinda sick and tired of the fashion police, who do tend to be either ugly middle agers or broke college students, saying that leather pants are a "bad idea" or "outdated". For sure: if you can't pull off the look, then it's a bad idea, but if you look good, then what's the problem?
Can I wear parachute pants? How about that silver-sequined glove? And a conical bra? All at once?
I wonder if Mike Reno still wears lots of red leather on the Grampa Loverboy tour.
You're right, Angelica. Only a fool would argue with a beautiful woman in leather pants! :-)
My pants got stolen out of my truck last month at a local community college....they left the GPS, Gortex Jacket, CB, and CD player but took my pants. It made me laugh.
sounds like a threat from the metalhead in my art class if anyone ever took his pants