From todays local paper:
Billboard gets dealt a hefty loss
UNION-TRIBUNE, San Diego, CA
August 23, 2005
It's was a theft of major proportions – 8 feet in diameter, to be precise.
Someone (or ones) scaled a 30-foot-high billboard and stole a gigantic casino chip
right from under Kenny Rogers' nose.
The replica chip, which is 2-feet thick and weighs about 200 pounds,
was attached to a billboard at Miramar Road and Cabot Drive – until Friday morning, that is
A replacement chip has been ordered, and speculation has it that the stolen one could
perhaps be converted into someone's dining room table. In any event, officials at the
Barona Valley Ranch Resort & Casino have issued an alert should anyone who try to
cash the mammoth $100 chip.
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