Curly the Cone returned

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - After two touch and go nights, Curly the Cone is finally home.

It was the last thing Errynn Sanchez expected Thursday morning, instead of a ransom not she found her $2,500 investment, Curly the Cone had been returned along with a strange apology letter.

She read the letter for News 13.

“We really fudged up and we’re sorry. We will never steal again because we learned that we could be caught red velvet handed if we do,” the letter states.

Curly was stolen Monday evening from in front of the Dairy Queen in the Holly Plaza near Paseo and Louisiana.

The six foot tall cone can either be worn as a costume or inflated as a mascot.

On Monday he was inflated and staked in a planter right outside the store.

“I didn’t think that the kind of person who would take him would return him,” Sanchez said.

That though is exactly what happened. A worker at a neighboring business found Curly, he was wadded up in the same planter her was stolen from.

Sanchez said she did not think Curly would be brought back.

“I just think this is incredible, I actually started crying when I first saw him,” she said.

Sanchez still does not know who was behind the caper or why they stole him in the first place and she does not care, she’s just glad he’s in one piece.

“He’s just a little dirty, I think he got a little scraped up from the asphalt on his nose but he looks pretty good,” said Sanchez.

Sanchez did report Curly’s theft to police but she let them know he’d been returned safe and sound and APD closed the case.