Sep 5, 2008

Is there an 8’ mechanical ape wandering around on your block?

There was an 8-foot mechanical gorilla standing outside a flea market store in East Machias, Maine.

The big ape could move its arms but not his legs so he couldn’t have just wandered off.

It was heavy with a concrete base and electric motors to move the big gorilla’s arms.

Now it's disappeared — in broad daylight — and owner Lowell Miller wonders how anyone could move it so easily.

The gorilla was last seen Sunday in front of Sandy's Sales, and Miller realized it was missing when he started to close up at the end of the day. He thought his clerk had wheeled it inside and the clerk thought Miller had moved it.

Maine State Police Sgt. Jeff Ingemi said he thinks the pilfered primate is decorating some college student's apartment.

If if was a college student, the apartment better have has 8 foot ceilings!

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