The province of Newfoundland and Labrador is known for its low crime rate. Touring Newfoundland with our travel trailer in tow the entire month of June 2022, we never once felt insecure even in the remotest locations. We always felt welcomed and safe to the extent that we took few of the normal security precautions while camping there. It’s sad to read of the theft of the Amelia Earhart sculpture. In our experience this kind of event is not characteristic of the population.
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One might be more likely to be assaulted by a black bear than a person in most parts of the province…
Andrei, you lost another Amelia?
It’s frustrating of course, but there are so many ways today to protect valuable items that make it surprising to me.
I’ve got inexpensive AirTags on my cars, luggage when necessary, cameras are available, gates, local volunteers for security, etc.
Not judging but it’s a large investment from the sculptor down to local community pride. Trust, but lock up your camel at night.
Hoping they will find her this time.
A rather tasteless theft I feel, now if it had been maple syrup, well that’s different.
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A wide-angle security camera on the grounds would prolly show the number needed, vehicle type, tools used if any…whose local teen son was involved…
Geesh!! I’ve heard it ALL now …
The scrap value of the bronze is about $1850/US. The thieves could get more from the reward for “finding” the statue.
That WOULD be tasty…
Some idiots stole a nine foot tall chicken filled with concrete here in South Jersey years back. Was a mascot for a grocery store. Must have weighed a lot more than a pickup truck could handle.
Statistics would show that most metal thefts are perpetrated by meth addicts. Start there.
I lived and worked in Newfoundland (rhymes with “understand”) for three years in the mid-1970s. Newfie friends would buy a new car and leave the key in the ignition until it was traded for a new one. No one locked their doors.
In 1989 I returned for a visit and stood on the spot in St. John’s where Alcock and Brown departed on the first transatlantic flight in a Vickers Vimy. A week later I stood on the spot where they crash landed in a bog in Clifden, Ireland. NFLD is steeped in aviation history: Botwood was a stopover for the flying boats and Gander a long-time fuel stop.
That’s what society has deteriorated to in Canada.
That is a LOT of trouble for $2000.
Replying to ‘JoeDB’:
Crims are clever but not smart, insisting on working harder at crime to get something dishonestly than they’d need to do real work to get.
They often trip themselves up, making police job a bit easier. One couple flew from Vancouver BC to Whitehorse YT, chartered a plane to take them to a small settlement where every resident was eligible for vaccination against the SARS2 virus, claimed they were working temporarily at a motel in the community. Then tried to bum a ride the 2km back to the small airport. Naturally someone thought that odd so called the motel, nope, so dropped a dime to police - nabbed. The guy in the pair lost his high-paying job over that, authorities considered jail time.
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Regarding my point that criminals are clever not smart:
It took searching on the Internet to find a place that would vaccinate everyone at that time in the pandemic, he was in early 50s, she was in her 30s.
That settlement was vaccinating everyone because it was a stop on the Alaska Highway thus exposed to outsiders, and had many elderly residents in poor health.