Updated 4:40 p.m.
Boston Police tweeted this afternoon:
Missing: Wally the Green Monster, If seen please call Boston Police.
About an hour later, police updated: Wally was back, safe and sound at Fenway. What at first sounded like a case of a dementia-suffering Wally, or perhaps a cruel prank by a Yankees fan, turned out to have a much simpler/stupider explanation: An employee who has authorization to wear the suit decided to take a walk around outside Fenway with the suit on - without permission. As crusading reporter Ryan Schulteis (no doubt to be tabbed to play crusading reporter Ryan Schulteis in the impending Affleck caper flick based on the incident) tweeted:
@RedSox say this employee normally wears the costume & chose to take it around the city today. No word on any disciplinary action.
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Comments
Close the Tobin!
By Kaz
Fri, 07/27/2012 - 3:47pm
If I were Wally, I'd head for the Tobin, the top of the Pru or Hancock, maybe the Zakim...
Oh please
By fibrowitch
Fri, 07/27/2012 - 3:59pm
He has been watching this team for 100 years, he has seen teams so bad it makes these guys look like World Champs.
1997
By anon
Fri, 07/27/2012 - 4:34pm
Wally's only been around since 1997. That is the only year since that was worse than what this year will shape up to be!
Wasn't the backstory on
By anon
Sat, 07/28/2012 - 1:33am
Wasn't the backstory on Wally- when he was introduced in '97- that he'd been living inside Fenway since it had opened or something like that?
Yes
By fibrowitch
Sat, 07/28/2012 - 8:18pm
The back story was that he had been behind the wall all the time and the guys running the scoreboard had managed to coax him out on to the field. He really only got popular after the team gave him a better back story and started pushing the doll.
Agreed. We need a
By Kathode
Sat, 07/28/2012 - 10:02am
real mascot like the Phillie Phanatic. Now that's a mascot. of course, we might also need a real team.
How about Chicago?
By anon²
Sat, 07/28/2012 - 1:15pm
and their giant booger?
[img]http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s720x72...
I'm guessing Wally was running from a cadre of Disney lawyers
By MC Slim JB
Fri, 07/27/2012 - 3:51pm
...who were pursuing him on the grounds that he's obviously a freakishly-large Elmo knockoff.
Our long national (okay, 40 minute local) nightmare is over.
By MC Slim JB
Fri, 07/27/2012 - 3:58pm
Boston Police Dept tweets: @Boston_Police
Update: Wally the Green Monster has been found.
Great job publicizing this, Sox
By Will LaTulippe
Fri, 07/27/2012 - 4:54pm
What are the chances that some six year old sees this on WBZ in an hour and finds out that Wally's not real? Hell of a way to learn.
Ummm...
By Me
Fri, 07/27/2012 - 6:26pm
So, what was the deal? Was this some publicity stunt gone horribly wrong?
someone please tell me how this is a police matter
By anon
Fri, 07/27/2012 - 8:53pm
This is *at best* a personnel issue.
Proprietary mascot of a
By Riggs not logged in
Fri, 07/27/2012 - 10:47pm
Proprietary mascot of a multi-million dollar sports team in a billion dollar company? That shit's taken seriously.
I thought the helicopter was a bit much, myself though.
(I'm also firmly in hte camp that this was staged for PR purposes.)