14-Foot Royals Statue Found After It Was Stolen from Billboard in Kansas City

Here's a weird story from Kansas City, Missouri. On Wednesday night, a huge statue of a Kansas City Royals player was stolen from a billboard for supermarket chain Hy-Vee off Interstate 435. 

According to Glenn E. Rice of the Kansas City Star, the "player" weighs 150 pounds and stands 14 feet tall. The billboard depicted him leaping for a fly ball against the outfield wall at Kauffman Stadium. 

It was a great billboard until some unnamed thieves had to go and ruin it. Sad.

There is some good news to report as of Friday morning, however. Brandon Richard, a reporter for KCTV5 in Kansas City, tweeted an image of what appears to be the found statue: 

Really, this has to be a win for Hy-Vee, right? The theft of its statue probably garnered way more attention than one billboard would have on its own. 

[h/t SB Nation, Kansas City Star]