Posted on 06/13/2008 5:53:10 AM PDT by NCDragon
CHARLESTON, Ore. — It turns out the fate of Charlie the Tuna of Charleston, Ore., was sorry indeed. The 8-foot Monterey cypress sculpture that used to greet visitors to the coastal fishing town was filleted by two young men who stole it as a prank and then, panicked they would be found out, took chain saws to it.
Not that Charlie would have lasted much longer anyway, the town learned, what with the way bugs and rot had hollowed out his innards.
The statue stood beside the South Slough Bridge into Charleston until Mark Santos and Marvin Terry Jr. swiped it last month.
"We had planned to wait a little while and then leave Charlie in a random place in town where he could be returned unharmed," they said in an apology letter published in The World of Coos Bay.
But someone tipped off sheriff's deputies, who started nosing around. Santos and Terry rushed to their hiding place and tried to move Charlie. But the statue wouldn't fit in their truck.
"We decided to chop him up so we could move him," they said. "This was not pre-planned."
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Remember, its allllll about feeeeeelings!
“This was not pre-planned.”..................obviously...........
Sorry, Charlie.
Exactly how does one "pre-plan"? Could somebody "pre-explain" that?
The people who carjacked, kidnapped, then raped and murdered that couple a few years back and then ditched the vehicle (meaning the car was NOT the goal) claimed something similar, no?
The urban legend (they don't ALL have to be false) of the stolen garden gnome and stolen baby Jesus displays causes a lot of one upsmanship.
That would take a "preemptive" "predominant" "prescience"............
The “stolen garden gnome” was in a movie as a subplot. I can’t remember what the name of the movie was.........
Some girl's name.
Wasn’t there something about stealing garden gnomes in “The Full Monty”?
Amélie
Strange movie...
Strange movie........French Movie.........
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