Post #132186 by SCTikiShack on Tue, Dec 21, 2004 4:04 PM

Aaron's A,

I told you that I would tell you about my stolen tikis after I get some pictures scanned in. Here it is, the tikis in the image below were stolen from the front of my house around a year ago. One afternoon I went Mt Biking, upon my return I noticed something was not quite right.

(The first Pineapple head)

After I put away my bike, it dawned upon me that my tikis were missing from my front yard. At first I thought that it was a friend playing a prank on me, but soon I wrote this off since I didn't hear from any one.
Instantly, I combed the neighborhood paying special attention to houses I know are rented by UCSC students.After a futile effort, I made a stolen property report with the police. The fuzz informed me that even if my tikis were found, that my chances of recovering them were slim. If the theives claimed that they created the tikis temselves it would be hard to prove.

I was irate since the smaller of the two is my special wedding tiki which I believe brings my mariage good luck. Santa Cruz, even though it has more than 60,000 people, is a tight knit community. I let all my buddies know about the theft and had a good percentage of Santa Cruz residents on the prowl looking for blood.

About six month later, one of my neighbors notified me that he saw a tiki in a house around the block that looked similar to mine. When I saw that it was mine, I wasn't sure how to approach the situation. In front of this house there were several dilapidated trucks with Harley Davidson stikers on them. Even though I am kind of a big guy, I decided that it would be better if I called the cops instead of tackling this task myself.

When the police officer arrived, I was glad to see that he was the most imtimidating seargent that I have ever seen.Around 6 foot five with a shaved head, I wouldn't want him coming at me in a dark alley. We confronted the thieves and he asked them where they got the tikis. He then asked me if there is any way to prove that they are mine. I told him that the wedding tiki has Didi and Will Forever engraved on the back. Sure enough, they handed them over as fast as they could. I guess there was a man named Ortega living in the back house who stole them. He recently moved to Sacremento and was going to pick them up at a later date. Just my luck, the current tennants liked them and brought them from the back yard to the front sun room for all to see.
I guess these tikis wanted to come home.

Below is a picture of my second pineapple tiki which is now living at Aloha Grill.

Merry X-Mass from SCTikis.

[ Edited by: SCTikiShack on 2004-12-21 16:21 ]