Michael Foster spotted the 15-foot spoon behind a fence that surrounds a Phoenix middle school baseball field, just 2 miles from the scene of the heist.
This photo provided by Michael Foster shows a 15-foot red spoon lying behind a fence in Phoenix on Monday, April 3, 2023. Foster found the giant red spoon while playing Pokemon GO. It was stolen from an Arizona Dairy Queen on March 25 and sparked a mystery on social media. and sparked a mystery on social media was found Monday morning, and it’s partly thanks to Pokémon GO.
“I can confirm the Dairy Queen ‘red spoon’ was located and recovered this morning,” Sgt. Brian Bower said in an email Monday. A school maintenance man came over and pushed it over the fence to Foster, who handed it to Phoenix police.“I set it down. They actually did the lifting after we got it over the fence,” Foster said. “They strapped it to the top of a police cruiser.”“I did kind of look around and was like ‘What?’ One guy did finally come by and was like, ‘Is that what I think it is?’ Yeah, that’s the spoon,” Foster said.
Owners Raman and Puja Kalra said last week that they hoped to get it back. Getting another spoon made, delivered and then installed would cost over $7,000. They even resorted to creative strategies such as printing T-shirts for staff that said “Where’s My Spoon?”Raman Kalra confirmed Monday in an email he was on his way to pick up the spoon from police.
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