Search on for stolen ten foot tall metal rooster

Rocket the Rusty Rooster has flown the coop, and Athens-Clarke County police in Georgia are looking for his captor. The rooster is roughly 10 feet tall and weighs in at more than 300 pounds of scrap metal. For two weeks, Rusty was perched in front of a store called Lexington Vintage.



The metal bird was stolen sometime between 9:30pm on Friday and 8am on Saturday. Bonnie Harris is the owner of Lexington Vintage, a place for artists to showcase their work in Athens. Harris said she has only been open for four months and the rooster was an attention getter for passing motorists.

Harris said her husband thinks some type of tool was used to cut Rusty away because part of one foot was left in the ground. The bird was anchored into the ground with rebar stakes. Since the rooster was worth $3,000, Athens-Clarke County Police said the person/s responsible would face felony charges.


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Harris said she hopes whoever took the rooster doesn't destroy it for a couple dollars worth of scrap metal. “I hope it is somebody who recognised, hey this is a really cool piece of art and they took it impulsively and would see this and bring it back. However, I know I can't rely on the integrity of a thief,” Harris said.