![]() The Kelleher family has a relative who works at a movie theater and has given them movie displays like Simon. The girls jumped and hugged the giant plastic figure. “They were very excited,” said Kelleher of her daughters’ reaction when the woman who recovered Simon dropped him off at their home Tuesday night. “My oldest sat on the kitchen counter, looking out the window with her mouth open and said, ‘Someone took Simon,’” said Irene Kelleher. She has watched the movie a dozen times and snuggles nightly with a handful of chipmunk stuffed animals. The Kelleher family includes two young children, Charlie Marie Kelleher, 5, and her 2-year-old sister, Cailey.Ĭharlie Marie adores everything about “Alvin and The Chipmunks,” her mother said. ![]() She checked the phone book and reached out to the Kellehers. ![]() The Facebook posting caught the attention of the woman who had scooped the giant chipmunk from the snowbank. The Ledger had posted a story about his kidnapping on, and someone put it on Facebook. It took the power of the Internet to get Simon home. The Ledger had a telephone number to reach the woman, but did not have her name and she declined to provide her name to a reporter. “He wanted to collect all three of them.” “My fiance likes Simon and The Chipmunks,” she said when contacted by telephone Tuesday night. “I pulled out of my driveway and there he was in the snowbank in my neighbor’s yard.” “I was on my way to work about 6:30 (a.m.),” said the 25-year-old woman. She picked Simon out of the snow and left him in her living room. On Tuesday morning, a young woman who lives about 2 miles away on Webster Street saw Simon behind a snowbank on a neighbor’s front lawn. Simon, who weighs in at 70 pounds, was stolen from the backyard of the Kellehers’ home around dusk Monday. Simon, the intellectual among his cartoon chipmunk pack, was scuffed up and missing his tail, she said. “Whoever took him beat him up pretty good,” said the statue’s owner, Irene Kelleher. ![]() The 5-foot-tall, plastic statue of Simon – from the animated film “Alvin and The Chipmunks” – was returned to his rightful owners after a 24-hour heist that left him battered and tossed in a snowbank, stripped of his glasses. ![]()
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