Police On The Lookout For "Buffalo Bandit"

<p>Oklahoma City Police are looking for the people responsible for stealing a buffalo art display outside a northwest Oklahoma City business.&nbsp;</p>

Tuesday, September 20th 2016, 12:41 pm

By: News 9


Oklahoma City Police are looking for the people responsible for stealing a buffalo art display outside a northwest Oklahoma City business.

It’s called X-rayed buffalo and the skeletal artistic design was custom made for Orthopedic Associates - and even had their signature logo on the side.  The offices are located near NW 50th and Independence Ave.

"We've had people ride it take pictures standing by it," said Dr. Tom Flesher, a Senior Partner with Orthopedic Associates. "But nobody's ever tried to move it before."

Flesher says their statue, like several others around the city, was commissioned to raise money and awareness for the Oklahoma nature conservancy and to be part of the state's centennial celebration.

But sometime between Sunday night and Monday morning the skeletal statue disappeared from its home on the range outside the clinic doors.

"I just couldn't believe it," said Flesher. "It has been there for a long time and it’s a fan favorite and a doctor favorite and everybody loves it."

It’s not like it could roam away. It, and others like it, are 6 feet tall and bolted down to a 150-pound base and probably weighs close to 300 pounds.

"No, it will take a big truck and a couple of very strong people to pick those things up and carry them around," said Frankie Enloe.

Enloe would know. He works at Eaton Quad Plastics in downtown Oklahoma City and they have one of these statues too. They even have smaller scale models for sale.

"Ours we have mounted to a dolly that we roll around on so it’s easier for me to move it," said Enloe.

And it also makes it easier for them to roll it inside and lock it up and to prevent theirs from being taken too.

Both Enloe and Flesher just hopes someone finds it and returns it.

"We like our buffalo at its home here," said Fletcher. "And it needs to come home."

And Fletcher says if you find it, bring it back to them no questions asked. The statue is valued at more than $5,000.

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