“The one beside it is actually $1,000, so it was surprising to see him take the wrong one”: Thief steals $300 Epiphone instead of the $1k guitar sitting next to it in strange Canadian guitar robbery

Epiphone Les Paul Special-II E1 in matte black.

Locally owned Acorn Music Store in Salmon Arm, British Columbia, is the latest target of guitar theft after a man casually walked out with an Epiphone Les Paul. The thief allegedly looked at the wrong tag and ended up taking a $300-400 guitar instead of the $1,000 guitar right next to it.

The store owner, Cory Bagg, explains how this all happened: “We had our employee working with some customers on their instrument and he was partway through the store.