The heist of a giant red spoon from a Dairy Queen shop in Phoenix had many wondering if the thieves also had a massive Blizzard they were digging into somewhere. And so launched the search for the large looted utensil.
"We were kind of upset but then more puzzled," DQ owner Puja Kalra told the Associated Press last week. "What are they going to do with a spoon?"
Kalra said the store's security cameras caught two men and a woman on March 25, unscrewing the screws that held the 15-foot spoon to a base and then loading it onto a flatbed trailer attached to a pickup truck.
"They were so precise about it like they had done it before," Kalra's husband, Raman, told the AP. "They just wiggled their way through and made sure the spoon was not damaged."
The Kalras were especially upset about the theft because they estimated it would cost $7,000 to have a new spoon made, delivered and installed.
Luckily, the owners are able to keep their hard-earned cash. Just more than a week after it disappeared, the giant red spoon was found -- thanks in part to Pokemon GO.
Michael Foster, 52, was hunting for virtual Pokemon on Monday when he stumbled upon the 15-foot spoon on the ground near a Phoenix middle school, about two miles away from the ice cream shop.
"I did kind of look around and was like, 'What?' One guy did finally come by and was like, 'Is that what I think it is?' Yeah, that's the spoon," Foster told the AP. "The first thing I did was send a picture to my wife and I said, 'It's the spoon.' She said, 'Call the police.'"
Foster said an officer arrived and strapped the spoon to the top of a police cruiser.
The spoon-stealing suspects remain at large.
The store had posted flyers advertising a sweet reward for anyone who found the spoon: A free Blizzard treat from every flavor of the summer menu. It's not clear if Foster is going to take them up on the offer.
"Honestly, we're just glad they're gonna get their spoon back," he told the AP.
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