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are you ready
Just catch him if he lurches forward
I'm actually a building engineer and I work for an apartment complex
back in 2001 through 2011
and we had a resident call and said that someone had a statue on their porch
on the patio and we went to investigate and found out that the
statue was there but the person had skipped
and I had tried to move it and it was huge
I mean you couldn't move it around so I called a couple my coworkers and we lifted it
and most of the time when we trash out an apartment we just put everything we have
in a trash compactor. I just could not put him in the trash compactor
no way I was going to put him in a trash compactor. And Matthew, my roommate, he's an artist
so I knew that he would appreciate it
and I was always bringing stuff home and he says "oh my god what did you bring home now"
so I said "just help me unload it and we'll figure it out"
and he said it's got to be stolen. I said well it's Google it and see if we can return it
and we tried that for the first two years and like I told them we
have a friend who's a police officer
who came over and and she tried to google it and stuff.
Still nothing. And Matthew, who just got his
master's degree in art education, is going to be moving to Montana
and he no longer lives just me but he lives out in the country and he's...
...we had a garage sale for him to get rid of his stuff, and I had him there and people
were interested in buying him and I thought well maybe I should get rid of him, you know
I told Matthew let's Google it one more time, you know.
So we Googled the artist and we found at the statues, small statues, like that
and it said liked six thousand dollars. I said well he's gotta be
here somewhere so we Googled again we put the artist name
the year and and stolen statue, and we had a link
and it gave us a phone number for the Crime Stoppers and
that's how we did that, but the years that he was with us we just knew him as George
we named him George
and most the time he was the quiet guy in the corner
for the first couple years we had him on our patio
and we would decorate him for Halloween and for Christmas he wore a Santa outfit
stuff like that, and we had a luau and he wore a lei.
He was the quiet guy in the corner
and he kept peace. It was funny we had a huge patio the had sliding glass doors
and we liked to keep it open because we had a view to the patio
and the pool, we had a really nice pool in that area, and he would sit in the corner there
and the people that would walk by it just surprised them, they would catch him and
they'd get scared because they would see somebody in the corner there and
we got a lot of entertainment out of that
he's been a part of our family for, you know, for a long time
it makes me really really happy
to know that he's come back home, and to hear the stories and
that he had a past before he was George, you know
it's really nice to know that and I'm so grateful that I'm
getting to be a part of this to see him home and that you guys are sharing this
with us, and it's an honor
it's an honor to be here with you guys, and I know he's well taken care of