Someone Has Stolen Dee Dee the Chicken from the Barefoot in the City Festival

May 14, 2015 - 06:47
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Someone Has Stolen Dee Dee the Chicken from the Barefoot in the City Festival
100-pound chicken statue missing from Georgia arts festival

City of Duluth officials are looking for a 100-pound chicken sculpture they say was stolen from a city festival.

Multiple news outlets report Dee Dee the Chicken disappeared from the Barefoot in the City: Duluth Art Week Tuesday. The chicken wears striped stockings and is five-and-a-half feet tall.

Barefoot in the City" is an 8-day event featuring different forms of art throughout the city of Duluth that coincides with the annual Barefoot in the Park Fine Arts Festival. Dee Dee is one of the art installations that was to be moved to different locations every day.

A public works employee who was supposed to move the statue Tuesday discovered it is missing.

City employees, police officers and residents have been asked to keep an eye out for Dee Dee, but no formal search parties have been arranged.

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