Mystery in Monroe: Dragon statue stolen from atop high school
By Andrew Segal KVAL NewsMONROE, Ore. - There are dragons everywhere you look at Monroe High School: on the wall, the gym floor and even the administrative assistant's desk. But on Thursday morning, the most significant dragon wasn't there. "This is just a real shock," Monroe School District Superintendent Randy Crowson said. An impressive steel statue -- created for the school by a Veneta artist -- is missing from the roof of the school.
"We thought this will be something that will be a symbol of this school district for 50 or 60 years," he said. "So to find it gone in less than two years, I can't tell you how disappointing it is to me personally."
Crowson and his cousin, Monroe High School Principal Bill Crowson, puzzled over who might have taken it. They don't think it was their own students or those at other schools. "I have a hard time imagining a rival school or kids at a rival school being interested enough to do something like that," Bill Crowson said.
The statue weighs about 200 pounds, and is about 4 feet tall. It was located on top of a very steep pitched roof. So school officials said the mystery is as much how it was taken as who took it.
"Must have been some pretty good sized guys, or somebody pretty smart to figure out how to take the weight off," Randy Crowson said.
But the logistics are less important than just having the dragon back. "Hopefully we can get it returned," Bill Crowson said. "The 'who' part isn't as big a deal as just wanting to get something back up there and make it look nice again."
The Crowsons said if the dragon is returned -- even anonymously -- they'll consider the case of the stolen statue solved. |
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