Thieves fly off with $70,000 of equipment belonging to A Flock of Seagulls

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The original A Flock of Seagulls bandmembers, in better times. Their wild hairstyles and outlandish clothes made them stand out, even during the eccentric 1980s.

These thieves ran, they ran so far away — and California cops don’t know where they went.

Someone rustled the nest of 1980s-era rockers A Flock of Seagulls, stealing their van loaded with about $70,000 worth of equipment, cops in Downey say.

Following a gig in Bellflower, the English one-hit wonders, memorable for their wacky hairstyles and ‘80s get-ups, had their 1999 Ford E-350 van nicked Sunday morning out of a Comfort Inn parking lot. The large van was loaded down with custom guitars and a drum kit, studio equipment and merchandise, frontman Mike Score told the Los Angeles Daily News.

The biggest blow, Score said, was the theft of a solo album close to completion. A lot of the gear, he said, was “really irreplaceable.”

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