A Muncie birthing clinic is beginning to make funeral arrangements for its missing mascot after almost a month since its abduction, according to Expectations Women's Health & Childbearing Center.
Barb Bechtel, certified nurse and midwife, said if "Gregory Peck," the six-foot-tall, wooden stork that once perched out front of the clinic, is not returned in the next few weeks, employees will have a memorial service to bid it a fond farewell.
"We've really given up hope at this point," Bechtel said. "We're going to give it another week or two, then we'll have a memorial service. We'd just like to get his remains."
This was the third time the stork was stolen, Bechtel said. It was first stolen in 2005 and again last April. This time the thieves broke off the foot the bird used to support itself, Bechtel said.
Police have found no leads in finding the stork, Bechtel said.
"I'm really worried since it was Thanksgiving" she said. "[The thieves] might have cooked him."
Expectations has ordered a replacement because employees' hopes of finding the bird are diminishing, she said.
"We're trying to get Erik Estrada on the case," she said.
If anybody has any information about the stork, they can call Expectation at 281-9497.
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