Colonel Sanders pulled from river after 24 years

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TOKYO – Everyone’s favorite chicken-mass-murderer; Colonel Sanders, were pulled out of a river in Japan after being stolen and dumped in the waters outside Osaka 24 years earlier.

Well, not really, THE colonel himself but a rather large statue of him and unfortunately not the entire statue either.

The statue was missing both its legs, hands and glasses.  Oh the Humanity! (but his legs and right hand was found later on.)

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The upper half of the statue was found Tuesday in Osaka’s Dotonburi River during construction work to build a new walkway, according to city official Hideo Yuko. His legs and right hand were found Wednesday morning.

Colonel in police custody
The colonel will be kept in police custody for the time being, but Yokakawa said KFC is considering donating him to the home stadium of the Tigers in Osaka. The store where he originally stood has since closed.

The KFC chain currently operates about 1,160 restaurants in Japan, and has about 1,000 Colonel Sanders statues in the country.

Osaka, Japan’s second-largest city after Tokyo, is located about 260 miles (420 kilometers) west of the capital.

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