Gallery owners demand return of statue’s stolen willy but vow not to take action against todger thieves
OWNERS of an iconic city statue have offered an amnesty for the return its stolen todger.
They have vowed to take no action if the naked male figure, called Grim, gets his willy back.
The complete statue — the symbol of Grimsby’s heritage — will then be put back on display in the Lincolnshire town.
The Grim and Havelock statue was erected in 1973 outside the Grimsby Institute but was taken down, with penis still in place, in 2006 following vandal attacks and put into storage.
The statue’s owners, Dale Wells and Darren Neave, of the Turntable Gallery, said it broke in storage.
Dale, below, added: “Rumour has it the private parts were in a drawer for many years but eventually got lost.
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“I think someone knows where it is. We’re proposing an amnesty where it could be dropped in anonymously.
They wouldn’t have to give a name, or they could get someone else to drop it in, or they could post it.”
The statue tells the story of Grimsby’s fisherman founder, Grim, heroically saving infant Prince Havelock of Denmark from the sea and raising him as his son.