This sounds like the kinda prank one of us would have pulled after a game....

REWARD FOR MISSING FIGURE: If you see Trudy -- a garish 8 1/2-foot papier-
mache woman wearing a floral-print orange dress, a party hat and holding a
martini glass -- call the Canvas Gallery and Lounge. Or the cops. She was
stolen from the Sunset District cafe-gallery recently by a guy posing as the
husband of the artist who made her, Sally Russell of Carmel Valley.

The thief apparently knew the gallery was expecting somebody to pick up the
sculpture for Russell, who was pregnant and couldn't do it. He showed up at the
cafe during a bar mitzvah party, said he was Russell's husband and had come for
Trudy. The night manager says he and other unsuspecting staff members even
helped the guy tie the piece onto the roof of his black sport utility vehicle.

"I'm flattered that somebody would want my art so much they'd go to such
lengths, but I'd like her back," Russell says. The gallery, which is liable for
half the piece's $6,500 asking price, filed a police report and is offering a
$300 reward. Something about Trudy gets to people. When she stood outside
Russell's Carmel Valley gallery, somebody shot her. The good news is that
Russell and her husband, Chuck, have a new baby boy named Henry.


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