Saturday night someone(s) stole our rooster. :(
We didn't leave the house from Saturday afternoon until Monday morning, so we didn't notice it missing until Monday morning. The rooster had been chained to the mailbox post to prevent anyone from taking it, but the thieves ripped the mailbox out of the ground and took the rooster.
I posted on several community groups in the area and heard a lot of supportive posts, but even more than that, people were commenting on how much they liked seeing the rooster. I didn't realize what a following we'd created with that rooster.
And then the community news paper ran a piece about it. If I had known they were going to quote me when I sent them the quick email, I would have picked better words. :)
I filed a police report but wasn't given much hope.
I'm thinking that some teenage or early-20s kids were out Saturday night and thought it would be funny to take it. I can only hope that somehow someone who has seen this show up in their yard will see one of the community posts or the article online and will get it back to me, but I'm really not thinking I will ever see it again.
Sigh. We're disappointed and surprised. We knew someone would try to take it, it happen once about 18 months ago and when the thieves realized it was chained down, they just threw it in the ditch and left. I never would have thought someone would go so far as to pull out the mailbox post.
If we replace it, which I'm sure we will do at some point when I have the money to buy a new one, I'm just not sure how to secure it since a chain didn't help.
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