Thieves steal statues, leave another in its place

[CalMeacham]

Gloucester MA thieves are evidently packrats:

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1316939&srvc=rss

Gloucester police are investigating the disappearance of a pair of cast-iron egret sculptures from the yard of a city home, and their replacement by a statue of a man in traditional Chinese garb.

[joyfool]

Why on earth would anyone want statues of egrets? I’d rather have Confuscious.

[aruvqan]

Maybe it is a variant on the traveling lawn gnome, the egrets will pop up somewhere else when that statue gets stolen.

[CalMeacham]

Why on earth would anyone want statues of egrets?

I’ve had a few…but then again, too few to mention.

Sorry. Couldn’t help myself.

[singular1]

Might as well close the thread. Cal just won the internet.

[Der_Trihs]

@CalMeacham

Gloucester police are investigating the disappearance of a pair of cast-iron egret sculptures from the yard of a city home, and their replacement by a statue of a man in traditional Chinese garb.

Did they check to make sure it wasn’t egret Voltron?

[VunderBob]

@CalMeacham

I’ve had a few…but then again, too few to mention.

I’m not heron you…

[lieu]

@faithfool

Why on earth would anyone want statues of egrets?

What, they’re statues of limitations?

[Zebra]

They put the other statute there so the booby trap that would be triggered by the weight being gone would not go off.