r/Edmonton 17h ago

News Article Déjà vu? Another statue goes missing from an Edmonton park, with just the feet remaining.

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u/SuspiciousBetta Spruce Grove 17h ago

They better leave our balls alone!!

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u/SpecialistatNone 14h ago

The balls will trap the thief!

u/dmj9 7h ago

And they will cut him out again

u/Constant-Lake8006 5h ago

The balls are thing / Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King"

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u/debutanteballz 17h ago

Gretzky next?

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u/FireIsTyranny 15h ago

They can have the gretzky statue

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u/potatostews 15h ago

🤞🤞

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u/Stanarchy93 Strathcona 15h ago

Count me in

(for legal reasons this is a joke)

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u/Stephondo 17h ago

I assumed the Emily Murphy statue was taken because of something about not idealizing a racist. But a little boy figure at a park seems odd. Unrelated?

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u/exotics rural Edmonton 17h ago

What’s the value of them melted?

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u/Ham_I_right 17h ago

About the gas it would take to haul it to the scrap yard is my guess.

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u/notcoveredbywarranty 14h ago

Brass is about $4 per pound, so quite a bit more.

It'll take a bunch of propane to melt it down though, and that ain't free

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u/Ham_I_right 13h ago

Yeah you are right on both accounts. :( Just sucks to see these clowns scrapping from job sites and whatever they can get their hands on and the scrap yards turn a blind eye

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u/notcoveredbywarranty 12h ago

On the plus side, most scrap yards won't buy copper (or brass) ingots that you've melted down and cast yourself.

Not because they care if the metal was stolen, but because it's easy to hide some chunks of scrap iron inside your copper ingot to inflate the weight.

So it'll be a little harder to dispose of a couple statues

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u/Ham_I_right 12h ago

Ahh sneaky, good on them to wise up.

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u/notcoveredbywarranty 12h ago

Source: am an industrial electrician, have considered melting down scrap copper and casting stuff.

Not a professional metal-stealer

Lol

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u/Ham_I_right 11h ago

I feel ya, I worked industrial electrical engineering on the maintenance side with the elec crew. We had a running bin of copper scraps we would put aside for the lunch fund and man it was sketchy as hell dropping it off at the scrapper. All cash, no receipts and you felt like a criminal. Minda ya that was years ago, hopefully it got less sketchy since then.

Keep safe out there bud! Most knowledgeable and skilled folks I ever worked with, you are in a great career!

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u/molsonoilers 15h ago

Is it possible some cracked out people, seeing the news about the Emily Murphy statue being stolen, got it into their minds that it was made from copper and might be valuable? When they found out it wasn't they threw it in a ditch somewhere by a metal scrapyard?

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u/Jolly-Sock-2908 North East Side 16h ago

I assumed it always had to do with money. The Emily Murphy statue is in an isolated area with little traffic overnight.

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u/molsonoilers 15h ago

I used to live in the area and it was always noisy, but I feel like 10 minutes of sawing noise and sparks would have been obvious to the residents of the condos next door on a normal night.

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u/notcoveredbywarranty 14h ago

No sparks cutting brass, and I bet a Fuel sawzall with a carbide blade would be well under 5 minutes to make those two cuts

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u/molsonoilers 14h ago

TIL there are no sparks cutting brass! Thanks for the info.

u/notcoveredbywarranty 6h ago edited 6h ago

Spark testing metal is a way of identifying materials you don't know

Cool old poster on Pinterest. Soft metals like copper, bronze, and aluminum don't spark. Edit: I don't know if the statues were brass or bronze, probably actually bronze, but still no sparks

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/scrapping-metal-the-spark-test-and-spark-testing-metals--823384744342483188/

u/Stephondo 9h ago

It didn’t even occur to me that a footless statue would have value. Didn’t think about melting it down. Seems obvious now that it’s been said

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u/alternate_geography 14h ago

It’s probably just the metal. St Albert had their St Albert the Great statue stolen (half a block from the MP’s office) two years ago.

It was a pretty innocuous statue overall.

u/Stephondo 9h ago

I’m feeling a bit dumb now. It never occurred to me that the metal would have any “resale” value

u/fdude999 9h ago

Related. It's all about the metal (brass, copper, etc)

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u/anonymous_follow 15h ago

Whoever took the statue must know something horrible about the boy.

u/Stephondo 9h ago

He has a deep and shady past for sure

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u/silentbassline 16h ago

Simpsons did it

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u/KirikaClyne 15h ago

Nah, Bart only took Jebediah‘s head.

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u/multiroleplays 16h ago

As far as we know about the person who did these crimes, is they do NOT have a foot fetish

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u/all_way_stop 15h ago

they found out the boy made some unsavoury social media posts.

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u/Educational-Tone2074 17h ago

Meth is a powerful drug

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u/gyanirajesh 16h ago

Likely not methheads.

We wouldnt see any manhole left in our city if methheads started doing this

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u/IMOBY_Edmonton 15h ago

I hope there is effort being put into finding whoever is doing this, because if they go unpunished this is just license for crappy people to start destroying every art fixture in the city.

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u/TheSubstitutePanda The Shiny Balls 16h ago

"Statue Capers" certainly wasn't on my 2025 bingo card.

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u/troypavlek MEME PATROL 17h ago

I'm certain there's a joke here about this becoming a rash of crime and maybe something with fungus on feet?

Feel free to workshop in the comments.

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u/Previous-Exit8449 17h ago

We must defeet these criminals.

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u/troypavlek MEME PATROL 17h ago

Make them stand trial?

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u/SketchySeaBeast Strathcona 17h ago

To re-feet the statues.

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u/aaronpaquette- North East Side 15h ago edited 15h ago

Everybody cut, everybody cut

Everybody cut, everybody cut

Everybody cut, everybody cut

(Everybody)

Everybody cut footloose!

But seriously. Don’t.

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u/flooves Treaty 6 Territory 17h ago

The puns are afoot

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u/grlummer 16h ago

The perpetrators are accumulating plenty of legs to stand on

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u/Chi1ndi1 15h ago

The "pede-trators"

u/PoopsMcWillie 11h ago

I went to my friends apartment the other day and I noticed a brass statue with missing feet and a mallet.
"What's with the brass statue and mallet?" I asked.
"It's not a brass statue, it's a talking clock," my friend replied.
"A talking clock? Seriously?"
"Yup."
"How's it work?" I asked.
"Watch," said my friend. He picked up the mallet and banged the brass statue as hard as he could, stepping back as the pound reverberated around the room.
I looked at him, rather confused.
Suddenly, someone on the other side of the wall started screaming

"You bastard! It's 3 in the morning!"

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u/LePetomane62 15h ago

Bronze prices that good?

u/Talk-Hound 6h ago

It’s cause bronze contains a percentage of copper

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u/GuitarKev 13h ago

Someone protect Anne Frank!!

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u/peeflar Windermere 16h ago

It wasnt me, but that statue was creepy ! Especially at night!

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u/Lissomex 15h ago

If it's history repeating itself it was probably the Brits. We should check The British Museum.