Seniors Steal Bob's Big Boy Statue, Hoist Him Up To School Roof

[matcom]

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The 7-foot statue that holds up his cheeseburger with pride in front of Bob's Big Boy restaurant on Hawthorne Boulevard in Torrance was found doing the same thing Tuesday morning -- except it was on the roof of South High School.

The chubby, smiling, suspender-wearing character that normally greets hungry diners was stolen sometime in the early-morning hours of Saturday from his perch outside his namesake restaurant.

"It seems Bob took a long weekend," said the restaurant's owner, Jim Louder.

With graduation looming, the eyes of suspicion focus on seniors.

"It's definitely a senior prank and there's a handful of seniors walking around really proud of themselves right now," said South High's principal, Scott McDowell, who said every high school spends the weeks before graduation in a state of heightened alert for hijinks.

"We are terrified of the kind of damage seniors will end up doing," said McDowell, who also mentioned that the Big-Boy-on-the-roof prank caught school officials off guard because of its early timing -- graduation isn't until June 21.

If the suspects are caught and indeed are students at the Torrance campus, McDowell said suspension and exclusion from graduation ceremonies are possible punishments.

Restaurant owner Louder said he would discuss with school officials and the police about pressing charges if the people responsible are caught.

http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/articles/2901251.html

[tigereye]

1. gosh, aren't kids allowed to do any grad. pranks

without the fear of arrest or not graduating? Grabbing the principal's butt in front of everyone is one thing (uncool), but doesn't anyone have a sense of humor anymore? It's a statue, for Christssake.

[WindRavenX]

3. for real

If no one gets hurt, what's the big fuckin' deal? :wtf:

[ghostsofgiants]

7. You clearly haven't seen The Simpsons' "Attack of the 50 Foot Eyesores"

[peekaloo]

8. lol.....Flanders has it.

Lard Lad!

[ghostsofgiants]

9. Dangerous business, that promotional statue tampering.

[LibDemAlways]

2. I used to hang out at that Bob's when I was in high

school.

Over twenty years ago seniors at the high school where I was teaching in the San Fernando Valley did the same thing with the statue from a nearby Bob's. Seems that the "Big Boy" is just a very appealing target for senior pranks.

[tigereye]

5. I think the police were often called for pranks

but it did seem that charges weren't usually filed. That's the difference, I guess.

[Zomby Woof]

4. Right here in Torrance

Nini and I eat at that very Big Boy from time to time. :-)

[Squeech]

6. Been there, done that

The MIT museum sells a book of MIT students' hacks, many of which involved stealing advertising art and placing it on top of the dome. Probably the most famous was the fiberglass cow from the Hilltop Steak House. They gave it back a week later, after everybody that wanted to took its picture, and when the Hilltop mounted it back in its accustomed place, they added a mortarboard, because their cow was now a college graduate!

There was also the time the kids brought an entire campus police patrol car up there, with a couple showroom dummies in uniform, one of which had a box of Dunkin' Donuts in its lap. What verisimilitude!

Anyway, speaks well for Torrance, I guess, but from my perspective it's not matcomnewsworthy.

[SteppingRazor]

10. The most amazing, shocking part of this...

is the realization that they still have Bob's Big Boys. :wow:

Thought they went out of business like 20 years ago.