Posted on 05/05/2005 6:36:43 PM PDT by Army Air Corps
A TWICE stolen statue from Thame Memorial Gardens has been returned to its rightful place after a resident found it in a shop in London.
The Pierce Memorial statue was erected on Friday, April 15, in time for the visit of French residents of Thame's twin town Montesson.
The bronze statue of a small boy standing on a turtle and holding a big fish was the centrepiece of the fountain in the gardens until it was stolen three years ago. It was the second time it had been stolen.
Rhyddian Edwards, operations manager at Thame town council, said: "A resident who regularly travels to London saw it in a shop window. The police were called and the statue was returned."
The statue has been back in Thame for around three years.
Mr Edwards said: "We had to keep it secure until the police had finished with it."
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This is the second odd theft story from the BFP. The other story invoves carp.
The funny thing is that those commercials are based on a real incident.
BTW, I love those commercials (both the TV and wireless versions).
It reminds me when the folks in our neighborhood "stole " a plastic flamingo from another neighbor. Now the damn thing shows up on other folks yards!
Heard a story once about a bunch of guys who stome a garden statue of St. Francis. Sent the owners pictures of "Frank" posing by various national landmarks. Kinda neat in a way.
stome = stole
Cool. A similar story is the basis for the Travelocity Gnome adverts. Sometime in the early 1990s, an English couple noticed that their garden gnome had gone missing. Shortly thereafter, they began receiving pictures by post that featured their gnome posed in locales around the world (Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sphinx, Eiffel Tower, etc). After a couple of years, the couple walked outside one morning and found that their gnome had been returned (placed in exactly the same spot it occupied prior to its "abduction") and had a "thank you" note attached to it.
You're paranoid; I like that in a person!
It is just a little odd. Also, the statue found its way to a London store. Buckinghanshire is about 20 miles from London - close enough for news of the theft to be known to London Metropolitain Police.
Anyway, the folks have their statue and hopefully they have bolted the thing in place.
I like my tinfoil so much, I own stock in Reynolds. :)
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