Stolen gear returned inn 'no questions ns asked' deal
A “no questions asked” deal has seen a Napier musician reunited with decades worth of irreplaceable music recordings.
But while it is the result Kieran Taylor was after, he does admit it was “wrong” the lengths he had to go to for what was rightfully his.
On Thursday, sometime between 11am and when he came home at 3pm, his computer, three hard drives and his flatmate’s personal belongings had been stolen.
Since news of the theft went public on Monday, the people with his belongings contacted him and within a “matter of hours” his hard drives had been returned.
However, it was on the proviso the thieves remained anonymous.
“I think it is the best possible outcome I could have got but, at the same time, I am still a bit saddened at the fact that I couldn’t get anything else and both my flatmates are still missing stuff important to them.”
Taylor said he felt “nervous and uncomfortable” doing it, but it was something he “had to do”.
“I wouldn’t have had to have done it if I had backed stuff up to the cloud.
“As far as the other hardware stuff, that is replaceable so I didn’t really care about that.”
He is grateful for all who kept an eye out for the return.
The 37-year-old, who has cerebral palsy, formed an industrial thrash metal band called Substrain this year, after years of hard work.
“I’ve been plugging away at this for 10 years and it picked up a bit of steam and I finally got a singer and a guitarist. I couldn’t even quantify how many hours of work is on the drives.
“Instead of me spending months putting together something that won’t even sound the same, I will have it running within a couple of months.”
Now, he has bought a terabyte of cloud storage and plans to have multiple duplicates as well, with some hidden in secret spaces.
But until they are backed up, he was so “paranoid” that he ttok the hard drives to work.
Substrain are set to open for Ivy Blue at Napier’s Paisley Stage on January 20 — their biggest gig to date.