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Obamabot ends up in hospital after life-size statue of Obama stolen

obama-benchAfter realizing that someone took her life-size statue of Barack Obama, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, resident Tiffany Bruce panicked and had to go to the hospital, WNEP reported.

“I peeked my head out the door and Obama’s gone and I kind of went into a panic. I couldn’t breathe, and I had to go to the hospital,” she said.

According to WNEP, Bruce paid over $1,200.00 for the statue.

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WNEP added:

Bruce moved into her home on Rita Street in the city a little more than a year ago. Since then, the statue had become a staple in the neighborhood and her family, dressing him up for Halloween and as Santa during Christmas.

Here’s WNEP’s video report of the theft:

At the time, she said she wasn’t sure if she would replace the statue, but it seems that won’t be necessary.

On Thursday, Fox 13 reported the statue was found on a park bench in a neighboring town.

According to Fox:

Photos provided to the station show a nearly empty bottle of Twisted Tea in the statue’s hand, a pack of empty Twisted Tea bottles on the bench next to it and a cigarette in its mouth.

The only thing missing is a golf club…

It is unclear how the life-sized statue ended up there or who took it.

obama-benchAnd to think “Hillary” could’ve been stolen with Obama.

“I was going to get a Hillary too, but I don’t want to do it now,” she said when the statue first went missing…

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Joe Newby

A 10-year veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, Joe ran for a city council position in Riverside, Calif., in 1991 and managed successful campaigns for the Idaho state legislature. Co-author of "Banned: How Facebook enables militant Islamic jihad," Joe wrote for Examiner.com from 2010 until it closed in 2016 and his work has been published at Newsbusters, Spokane Faith and Values and other sites. He now runs the Conservative Firing Line.

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