Life-Sized Statue Of Betty Boop Beheaded

[matcom]

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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. --Her ebony hair perfectly parted and saucer-like eyes 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 the statue down Shore Drive, severing limbs and crushing her head.

"From heel to head, I had to reconstruct her," Estes said.

http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2005/07/24/life_sized_statue_of_betty_boop_beheaded?mode=PF

[Throckmorton]

1. OK, where is Bimbo,

maybe he has her head as a "love" object?

[tanyev]

2. Why do terrorists hate Betty Boop?

:cry:

[TlalocW]

3. Not enough literation

Try, "Big bust of Betty Boop Beheaded. Beach bums bewildered and bummed."

TlalocW