A dark figure dressed in a dark dress and hiding behind the mask, jumped over six feet tall wooden fence and opened the Stars VII cage to release perhaps the most famous reindeer into the dark anchor night at 6:30 am 20th February.
The star was Found roaming Later that evening city streets by a member of the police department Anchorage. But the next night the disguised figure visited the Star border and sprayed it with what its owner believed he was an air freshener.
The star reindeer of Anchorage is a matter of legend that serves as unofficial masks of the city and play a crucial role in shows, school excursions and cultural events-they are the lives of small city celebrities. Like the Pope or the Dalai Lama, when one star dies, another star is named.
In hours after Star VII was attacked by an air refreshmenter, the reindeer felt deeply ill and the police department Anchorage began to investigate who could try to steal and hurt the animal. No arrests were carried out and the police published Shots behind a security camera The attacker in an effort to get tips on the case.
Albert Whitehead, 84, retired and Star, said he did not know what the attacker who poisoned reindeer, but noted that he heard the invader’s voice.
“BUS STOP!” Mr. Whitehead screamed at the attacker, who caught his security shots and sprayed his animal.
“I’m trying to help the star,” the attacker replied before he left, the obviously unwavering promise of Mr. Whitehead that the police were on his way. Police never caught a mysterious sprayer.
The contemporary star, star VII, is an eight-year-old male reindeer-second star under Mr. Whitehead’s care.
In hours after the star was sprayed, Mr. Whitehead feared that Star VIII would have to be named in the coming weeks. The star stopped eating and lost a lot of weight until there was “nothing but skin and bones,” said Mr. Whitehead.
The star was diagnosed with pneumonia. He became so ill that Mr. Whitehead was considering postponing him to take him from him. But in the next few days the star began to recover slowly. Now he gets shots from the local veterinarian every two days and his blood is tested regularly.
“He still touches and goes,” said Mr. Whitehead. “We think we have pneumonia under control now.”
It was also not clear whether the person who set the star and the person who sprayed the star was the same person. Police staff Anchorage did not respond to phone calls and was looking for a comment.
The police called the stellar cage manipulation an attempt to steal. Mr. Whitehead is not so sure. He believed that the one who changed Cage Star’s Cage was trying to liberate the reindeer. But he had the reindeer out to the city alone in the winter night to endanger his well -being, Mr. Whitehead said.
In the sections of posts on social media and in Facebook groups, the inhabitants of Anchorage expressed horror over the suffering of the local legend.
“The sad someone tried to hurt the poor star,” one person said. Another person wrote a passionate lawsuit: “Find a criminal who still plays with the star !!! The star is very sweet and wouldn’t do it in the wild. ”
Sheelagh McNeill Research contributed.
