I'm with U2girl...
respectfully asked, martha...do you think the Guardian article was not independently done, the one where they report that the French police have launched a major investigation and say that this official, Guy Sapata, who I did an attempt at checking on and who does indeed exist in frenchlanguage links (sorry, my french is stinky..took spanish in school!) as a detective in S. France (I've seen him mentioned as working in marseilles, and also in nice, but it's hard for me to get like a nicepolice.com website lol!), is in charge of it?
And where they say they're interrupting bastille day holidays with this and so on...just a feed from U2 direct to the guardian?
hard for me to believe...
releasing a report on an ongoing investigation seems unwise, if not officially against whatever policies they have.
poor boys, I bet, feel really funny about the whole thing anyway.
There they were having a good time, left it in the machine to go outside and take some photos, and come back and its gone. maybe didn't even want to have to make it get to that point of getting cops involved. wishing the stupid shit who took it would just give it back. like when you're in the schoolyard and you know it just had to have been one of these people you thought were your friends who took your precious thing, but now it's gone and where the hell is it?! Must suck.
Rather embarassing to tell the tale. Feels like a betrayal, like a bad scene from a hey dude where's my cd sketch. Having a little party, you go outside for a smoke and a photo and it's gone. Forgot to press eject to go the 50 meters away to take a snapshot. Tsk tsk, some say, you should know better. But they felt safe among their 'people' and how sucky that they weren't! Maybe someone pressed eject for them and didn't know what it was, etc. still maybe true. but it must be painful to even recount the tale, and so I'm not surprised they're not holding press conferences about it. it's not like someone took it from a parked car or a coat check at their hotel after all. it was at their bloody party among associates and staff and mag people. It seems like it went down just like that, and the cops had to come in and say okay, who was at your little party and question the 'guests', ya know?
And then they have to decide, well, if someone of these hair stylists or photo people did take it, would they sell it, would they fuck up our release or would they just keep it in a drawer? well, now too late, the record company people need to know, it's still gone, and I guess we gotta go tell the cops and meet with the suits and decide what to do.
Everyone gets to think what they want of course, but there's just nothing I've heard yet that would make me believe its a stunt, even though folks can theorize little algorithm trees about how it's good or whatever in X Y or Z ways or it doesn't hurt or it's really about sneaking away control over stuff...U2 generally, aside from losing things, seems able to control a lot and don't need to sell their credibility away to change a release date, even in theory imho.
cheers all!
Yes, yes they do! They control the newspapers, the French police, they control iTunes, everything! Bwhahaha
I dunno if the theft is real, if the cd was simply lost, or if this whole thing is a ruse gone terribly wrong. Neither do you. There's no proof either way, only rumors, heresay, and vague news reports, which are strangely few and far between. Until solid proof of one situation or the other surfaces, I'm reserving my somewhat cynical judgment on the whole issue. I'm not going to join in the hand-wringing and crying over the "stolen" cd until somebody outside the band confirms its theft.
to be honest, I DON?T BELIEVE AT ALL that very old story about a New Album stolen. I think I already heard that by many other bands before. is just a bad move for getting more records... a shame 
except for " I Will" in which they removed first bars intro on the Official Album 
