Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe SEATTLE, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The Seattle Parks Department said someone stole an 18-foot-tall totem pole from the spot where it has stood since 1976. Parks spokeswoman Dewey Potter said officials investigated after being tipped off about the pole's absence by West Seattle Blog and determined it was not in the possession of any local government departments, Seattlepi.com reported Friday. Advertisement "We checked all our systems to see if it had been taken out for a capital project or for repairs -- and we don't have it," Potter said. Potter said the Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, which manages a number of art installations around the city, and the Rotary Club of West Seattle, which commissioned the carving in 1976, were clueless as to the fate of the totem pole. Authorities said they believe the totem pole was stolen sometime Monday night.
