Who would steal this? How awful

Statue at the "point",
originally uploaded by FinanceProfessor.

If stealing a statue was not bad enough, it is a statue that has become a landmark for the Biloxi area. Indeed here is a picture that I took of it when I was in Biloxi.




From the City of Biloxi's website:

"Biloxi’s Golden Fisherman, a 16-foot statue that once stood on Point Cadet in tribute to the seafood industry, has apparently been stolen from the former site of the Maritime and Seafood Industry Museum.

The city-owned statue, which weighed more than a ton, was last seen mid-afternoon Saturday near the museum site, where city workers had moved it a week ago. The statue, which was insured, was damaged and knocked off its pedestal by Hurricane Katrina.
“How someone could have the gall to do something like this on the weekend of the Blessing of the Fleet just appalls me,” Mayor A.J. Holloway said this afternoon"