Theft Of The Week (2)
I’m of an age that every now and again I get an invitation to apply some faecal matter to a stick and send it back in the post.
No, I’m not a member of some weird fetish group. It is part of the Health Service’s campaign to check old codgers for bowel cancer. I really must get around to doing it.
Some organisations take a more direct approach to increasing awareness of diseases to the bowel. Take the University of Kansas Cancer Centre. They use a ten-foot, inflatable model of a diseased colon, weighing 150 lbs and worth $4,000, to drive the message home.
Or did.
Someone, I read this week, has stolen it from the back of the truck in which it was stored. The Centre would rather like it back and you can imagine that the thief experienced a certain sense of disappointment when they got their loot home and unfurled it.
For sure, it might make an interesting inflatable for the kids to play with but it must have a rather limited resale value.
The police, of course, are straining every muscle to catch the culprit but the man in the picture has been eliminated from their enquiries.
