Photo: Town of Harbour Grace
A group of brazen bandits stole a beloved bronze statue of Amelia Earhart that commemorated a small Canadian town's place in aviation history. According to a local media report, since 2007, the sizeable piece occupied a place of honor in the community of Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, where the pioneering pilot departed on her famed 1932 transatlantic flight. However, last Friday morning, residents woke up to a disturbing development as, like the iconic aviator it depicts, the Earhart statue had vanished into thin air.
More on this unfortunate story at the Coast to Coast AM website.