Vikings helmet mailbox stolen in Madison, new purple box swiped too
Posted on January 18, 2012
It's bad enough for a Minnesota Vikings fan in Madison to sit through a terrible season. Throw in getting your custom-made Vikings mailbox swiped.
Then have a replacement plain old metal mailbox that you painted purple intercepted as well, and a bad season just got worse.
Madison police said the football-flavored thievery happened in the 900 block of Troy Drive on the city's north side.
The lady of the house, a 56-year-old Vikings fan, told police the family is not shy about pledging allegiance to Viking purple and gold and not Packer green and gold.
"They displayed their allegiance to the Minnesota Vikings in the heart of Packer Nation," said police spokesman Joel DeSpain in a news release. "Their mailbox had been in the shape of a Vikings' helmet, talked about in the past tense because someone swiped the prized $600 plastic receptacle at the end of December."
Enter the standard, non-Viking mailbox.
"The owner was undeterred, buying a $25 plain mailbox to replace the helmet, painting the new box purple," DeSpain said.
The Viking fan was sacked when the new box was intercepted on Jan. 7.
"It already was not a great year since the Vikings went 3-13," DeSpain said. "The team mailed it in and now a Madison fan has no Viking mailbox to get mail in."
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