News for May 16, 2006

Concrete gorillas stolen from restaurant

5/16/06, 12:58 pm EST - Xoanon

Whoever did it didn’t bother leaving a ransom note or any clues behind. They just cut the chain link that wound through the three gorillas’ arms, resting on knuckles, and took them Saturday night. The next morning, when Zoe Triantafillou got to her family’s King Kong restaurant near Interstate 80 there was no trace of the concrete gorillas that are fixtures outside. “It was a very planned prank, if that’s what it was,” she said Monday. [More]