Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, November 4, 1994 TAG: 9411040066
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: BETH MACY
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
These were the desperate post-Halloween words from Barbara Riggs, the Salemite whose 75-pound cement "watch pig" was featured in a recent Extra column on yard art.
Last Tuesday, Salem police issued an APB - an abducted pork bulletin - for Riggs's pig, which vanished sometime between the hours of 10 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. Halloween night from her Front Avenue lawn.
"The Sunday after your article ran, someone tried to take it, but they only got as far as the edge of the street," Riggs explained. "It's so heavy, my husband can't even move it."
Riggs said she considered putting it up for Halloween, but the task was too daunting. "Something woke me up at 12:30 last night, I looked out my window and it was gone," Riggs said Tuesday. I couldn't go back to sleep all night; I was too worried they'd come back for my [cement] lion and my goose."
Riggs said she'd consider putting up a reward for the porker, which measures about 2 feet tall and is painted white. "I can see pictures of my pig on milk cartoons with one of those 'MISSING' labels," she said.
by CNB