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Toledo Adult Entertainment: Downtown bar owner wants purloined bronze boar back
June 15, 2010 | | Leave a Comment
Captain Carroll said it’s not common for such large mascots to go missing, but it does happen on occasion.
In 2003, a 2-foot-tall wooden bust of actor John Travolta was taken from Mugshots Lounge on North Summit Street. It showed up a week later at The Distillery, a bar in South Toledo. At the time, Mugshots’ owner Ali Joseph offered a $300 reward for the bust, a sum he didn’t have to pay out in the end.
Thieves pillaged a Big Boy restaurant on Secor Road twice in the late 1990s by kidnapping its namesake statue. In the first incidence, a group of Toledo teens who called themselves the Pimps of Pimplyness took the statue and dismembered it. They littered the city with parts of the statue and notes reading, “Big Boy is Dead.”
See the full article from “Toledo Blade”