Thieves steal statue from Edmond church

From Oklahoma-

This week thieves targeted a church near downtown Edmond. The crooks stole a concrete statue from a garden in front of the church. Church leaders are actually taking the loss in stride, but haven't given up hope the crooks will have a change of heart.

A large St. Francis statue watches over the garden outside St. Mary's Episcopal Church. Sometime this week thieves snuck onto the property and stole a second St. Francis statue.

"St. Francis down there was smaller statue. You easily could've picked it up. This was actually buried with a foundation in the ground," said the church priest Mark Story.

The thieves apparently tried unsuccessfully to heist the bigger statue.

"You know this stuff happens. It doesn't do any good to get angry about it," said Story. "The value of the loss is not as severe as you know, if somebody really needed it they probably could have come and asked."

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