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Ugh, Our Stolen Arrow

Written on October 25, 2008 by Marco

Our red neon arrow hang­ing out­side the door of our store got … stolen tonight.  It’s noth­ing you just do like that — first, you’d want to turn the elec­tric­ity off, neon lights up at thou­sands of volts so get­ting stung by the volt­age really hurts. It even hurts your feel­ings, it’s that kind of volt­age. Sec­ondly, you would need a lad­der to get up there. And a knife/snipper to get it off. So some­one ded­i­cated it must have been…

[Update]

Our neigh­bor restau­rant had a cam­era lit­er­ally 2 feet from the arrow, AND YOU GOT FILMED! Actu­ally, the offi­cer who was here saw you, we haven’t yet…  But we will get a nice cd with the film of you on sun­day or monday. 

Yeah!

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  1. Comment by Andy:

    ACK! Sorry.

    October 27, 2008 @ 7:37 pm

  2. Comment by nationalplumbingcode:

    Ack, indeed. I work around the cor­ner and I was just won­der­ing how long the arrow sign had been miss­ing. That sucks.

    November 6, 2008 @ 2:23 am

  3. Comment by Marco:

    And an update: We mounted a green “swirl” tem­porar­ily the day after the theft, but yes­ter­day when I put up a plaque next to the neon, I swept it with my lad­der and cracked the neon, so now it really looks sad… All in my own mak­ing. Merde, or Mer­dre as Alfred Jarry would have spelled it.

    November 6, 2008 @ 9:40 am

  4. Comment by John:

    “you are not here“
    Your next arrow should be like Pompidou’s neon arrow. So big it’s unstealable.

    November 21, 2008 @ 9:43 pm

  5. Comment by joe:

    not hav­ing much luck with that sign are you!

    it must be a sign..

    December 5, 2008 @ 10:54 am

  6. Comment by Marco:

    Heh:) Well we got a new arrow but the old trans­former is a bit too weak so I’m try­ing to plug in a stronger one.

    December 5, 2008 @ 5:45 pm