As D.C. juveline car theives are snatching cars for joyriding at alarming rates, police in Calvert County are not pursuing the case of the mysterious seahorse sculpture-napping that appears to be teenage prank. The beloved statue was outside the Adams Ribs restaurant near Prince Frederick earlier this summer when it was stolen. The sculpture is back, the Post reports, found dumped behind the cafeteria at a county middle school, where a group of the school’s students painted the fiberglass creature in the spirit of Vincent VanGogh’s “Starry Night” for a countywide public art project. Police said that if the horse was returned unharmed by the end of September, they wouldn’t pursue the case.
Remember the case of the stolen fake woman from Reston Town Center in Virginia or the missing panda in the District?
DCist wants to say that even though you may think stealing public art is cool, it’s always a bad idea.
