Another Beheading
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 4:45 am
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.(AP) Her ebony hair perfectly parted and saucer-likeeyes perpetually staring, the life-size Betty Boop statue became a local landmark on the city's Shore Drive. But Sunday morning, a patron discovered the $1,600 figure a block away from its home in front of Cool & Eclectic Furniture and Fashion _ without its head.Six days later, the head remained missing."Without it, she's nothing," said store owner Larry Estes, who filed a police report Friday. Estes collected Boop's body and placed it in a storeroom. Then he began searching up and down Shore Drive.He is offering a free store item to anyone who comes forward with Boop's head."She's made a lot of people smile," he said of the mascot. "Who would do this?"Betty has had run-ins before. Two years ago, Hurricane Isabel's winds tossed thestatue down Shore Drive, severing limbs and crushing her head."From heel to head, I had to reconstruct her," Estes said.
Say it ain't so!!
Say it ain't so!!