Charlie Brown statue returned to eatery

[democracyindanger]

It’s something Lucy might have done — stolen an already hot statue of Charlie Brown to return it to its owner, and collect a $2,500 reward.
And being Charlie Brown — who never got the better of a situation — the statue got a little scraped up in the process. Still, said owner Bob Forsyth: “We’re just happy to have him back.” The case of the stolen statue began between 1:30 and 2 a.m. Saturday, when someone cut the bolts holding the 300-pound polyurethane Peanuts star to its concrete base outside Michele’s Restaurant in Santa Rosa.

Forsyth publicized the theft and the $2,500 reward — no questions asked. Apparently, it worked. A security guard at the restaurant got a phone call late Sunday from a man who said his friends had stolen the statue and he wanted to return it.

“His quote was, he stole it from them to bring it back,” Forsyth said. By 3 a.m., Brown was recumbent and recuperating in the restaurant’s banquet area.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/06/06/MNcharlie06.DTL

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