The Wild Oak Saddle Club in Santa Rosa are dumb founded as to why someone would steal their 500lb bronze statue of a cowboy roping a steer.The statue , which is estimated to be worth $100,000, was taken from the front of the club on Tuesday.Money for metal is the logical answer. Bets are its heading to a recycling yard where it could net the thief at least $1,000 for his trouble.One of the locals expressed his view “I kind of want to shoot someone in the foot. It is really annoying, really disturbing and it makes us mad,” Metal theft is reaching an epidemic it seems.

Heartless thieves have stolen a Haslingden sculpture created by children from a special school. The 7ft statue known as “The Workers” was created by pupils at Tor View Community Special School in Haslingden, North West England. The three “match stick” people were made from tubular steel pieces leading many to believe the figures could be on there way to a scrap metal yard. This is the second time the sculpture has been targeted by thieves since it was erected 2006.

UPDATE :  Well it seems our heartless thieves aren’t heartless at all. The stolen sculpture has not only been returned by the guilty thieves but they left a fifty pound note attached to a letter. The letter read : “We’re sorry. We didn’t know the children made this and we are very sorry for stealing drunken. I hope the attached £50 will cover the cost to re-weld him on. Don’t worry we’ve looked after him.”

Williams Hardwood Flooring company are offering a $500 for the “two white males” caught on security cameras breaking the arm off their wooden sculpture of a carpenter. Watch out boys, they are none too pleased. A spokesman for the Akron, Ohio company stated “The reward is not for the arm, it’s just for the guy who did it. And it’s wrong and we’re looking to spend the money to find out who did it, not to get the arm back.” Stay tuned!

It seems like a public art fiasco. A decade old missing aluminum horse sculpture was found in someones backyard about the same  time as a rhino sculpture was nicked from outside a Tampa business. Seems like the Tampa police will need to take art appreciation lessons if this continues.
Someone obviously fancied themselves as a bit of an artist,as they gave the horse sculpture a bit of a once over with white paint.  They weren’t very imaginative though, painting three legs and part of its face. The horse was discovered after a tip off. Hmm the lady of the house claims her ex bought it at a yard sale for $25 ( Don’t tell Antique Roadshow!). And no, she ain’t confessing to the paint job either. The horse will be going back to the artist’s widow.
The Rhino sculpture on the other hand is still missing. The rhino, which is 10 feet long, 5 feet wide and weighs a few hundred pounds, was last seen outside a business on 12th street.

UPDATE : Stop the presses, Rhino sculpture has been found. The 200lb  steel sculpture was found dumped in the parking lot of the Round Up bar on W. Hillsborough Avenue. 

The Bloomingdale High School (Tampa) has had their 400-lb anatomically correct bronze bull statue returned (just in case you were wondering) Yes, the school mascot was stolen from its anchors Monday Night. Following a tip off the big bovine was found in a storage facility.No arrests have been made as of yet.