Perhaps Hugh will feel at home. Then there are vandals whose motives more closely resemble pious medieval relic hunters. The Last Supping Jesus originally had hands of sublimely sculpted wax, but finger by finger they were snapped up, and now the Savior sports clumsy but durable fiberglass mitts. Sometimes fans get more ambitious. Some desperate soul even attempted to smuggle a simian head from the Planet of the Apes display by tucking it into a baby carriage.
Horn spins an even stranger yarn about another figure given as a gift.
She wanted a figure of Marlon Brando as the Godfather for a Christmas gift, but she refused to give the buyer's name. The mystery deepened as Horn was asked to make the handoff in a back alley in San Diego. When a black limo showed and a woman decked in pounds of gold emerged, Horn hopped out to lift the sheet covering the body. That's when the police rolled in, summoned by an alarmed passerby. Five cars, and lots more pointing guns.