The 400 pound bronze statue that once stood outside the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood has been found on a farm. Three years after the thieves cut the bolts of the Ammunition Plant worker statue which attached it to its base it was found lying in a paddock. The statue was originally erected in 2001 and then vanished in July 2005.The general consensus was that the statue had been melted down for money.
The statue was erected in honor of the 48 men who were killed and the 46 workers injured when an explosion ripped through the plant on the 5th of June, 1942 (during World War II). Problem now seems to be what to do with it. A $30,000 replacement statue now stands in its place!

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The Old Garden State Park racetrack (New Jersey) won’t be getting their $500,000 bronze horse statue back. Ian MacDonald has been charged with cutting it off at its base and selling it to a salvage yard after police were given a tip off. How did he do that? One ton bronze horse wouldn’t have been the easiest thing in the world to move (lucky it didn’t fall on him!). What must really peeve the owners of the horse statue is Mr MacDonald got $4,000 for his efforts. Surely the owners of the Salvage Yard should have been charged. A guy walks into their yard with a big bronze horse under his arm. Dah its stolen!

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The Bloomingdale High School (Tampa) has had their 400-lb anatomically correct bronze bull statue returned (just in case you were wondering) Yes, the school mascot was stolen from its anchors Monday Night. Following a tip off the big bovine was found in a storage facility.No arrests have been made as of yet.

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