{"id":660854,"date":"2010-02-10T17:09:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T22:09:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:28:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:28:24","slug":"kfc-offers-500-worth-of-free-chicken-for-safe-return-of-col-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/660854","title":{"rendered":"KFC Offers $500 Worth Of Free Chicken For Safe Return Of Col. Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/Col_Sanders_Missing-thumb-300x570-36883.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Colonel Sanders has gone missing. Okay, not the actual man &#8212; he died in 1980 &#8212; but a bronze bust of the goateed Kentucky Fried Chicken founder has disappeared from its hallowed position outside a KFC in Berea, KY. The statue, valued at $1,200, is now the target of a police manhunt and the subject of a reward: $500 of free chicken.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s like, this big, his whole head. It&#8217;s really detailed, all the features and everything,&#8221; the manager of the victimized KFC said following the theft. &#8220;Some employees were in the dining room when four young guys came in&#8230; When she came back to the dining area, it was gone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hall said police confirmed that four male youths were spied fleeing on foot from the fast food restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the police should <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/02\/been-burgled-check-craigslist.html\" >check out Craiglist<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>It is not yet known whether the $500 reward extends to both original recipe <i>and<\/i> extra crispy, or whether or not they will charge extra for all white meat.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to Consumerist as this breaking story continues to develop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Odd_News\/2010\/02\/08\/Col-Sanders-statue-stolen-from-KFC\/UPI-77411265668934\/\">Col. Sanders statue stolen from KFC<\/a> [UPI]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colonel Sanders has gone missing. Okay, not the actual man &#8212; he died in 1980 &#8212; but a bronze bust of the goateed Kentucky Fried Chicken founder has disappeared from its hallowed position outside a KFC in Berea, KY. The statue, valued at $1,200, is now the target of a police manhunt and the subject [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2LUW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":762330,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660854\/revisions\/762330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}