Princeton store's stuffed sheep is missing

Posted: July 21, 2012

PRINCETON - Police are searching for a beloved resident who has gone missing - a 100-pound stuffed bighorn sheep that has sat in front of a wool shop for decades.

Princeton Borough police said Lindi, the mascot that had guarded the entrance to Landau's, a family-owned wool shop, for nearly 40 years, has been missing since Monday, the Trenton Times reported.

The Nassau Street landmark is a popular subject for tourist photos.

Store owner Robert Landau told the newspaper that he spent $10,000 in the 1970s to ship the award-winning specimen from its native Iceland as a representative of the business Landau's was doing with that country.

Landau said he doubted there was much resale value in the stuffed sheep.

Police said they suspected the theft could be the work of pranksters.

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