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The Associated Press
10:01 a.m. EDT, October 22, 2009

PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia high school has managed to lose more than 40 musical instruments,
including two grand pianos.

City Controller Alan Butkovitz says University City High School is missing 47 instruments worth about $47,000.
Most notable among them are a grand piano and a baby grand piano.

Butkovitz says the school can't tell the city where to find either instrument
but "it's hard for a grand piano to walk away."

District officials acknowledge the instruments are missing
but say adequate controls are in place.

The finding came as part of an audit report that also criticized
the district's management of food service and other contracts.

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That sucks.

While I agree with shaman that some of it is straight up theft, some of it is possibly just bad recordkeeping. It is not unusual for these sorts of audits to not talk to the people directly in charge of the inventory. Now that it's in the paper...."oh, that piano is over at xyz school now"

bloke wrote:I'd wager that some racist from "the South" probably stole that stuff.

Naw, but I have to admit, it was damn hard getting that concert grand into my buddy's backpack...

Everything is okay though, 47 instruments, 2 grand pianos are missing; AND the school district reports that adequate controls are in place. Now that's what I would call excellent quality control and inventory management.

tundratubist wrote:Now that's what I would call excellent quality control and inventory management.

It worked; how else would they know exactly what was missing and where it should have been!?

(BTW, when I saw the smaller grand on I95, I just assumed it was migrating for the winter... )

I saw the Big Grand Piano stuck in traffic on the Blue route, it was a Bösendorfer!
I imagine when we get in times like these when the money is tight,
the transgressions of the "who gives a crap,
we've got plenty of money in the budget times" now surface.