BERLIN–German police are investigating the mysterious disappearance of a wooden sculpture of a penis that has entertained hikers in the Bavarian Alps for years.
“We have opened an investigation into the disappearance of the piece,” which reportedly vanished last weekend from the Gruenten mountain, Bavarian police spokesman Holger Stabik told AFP on Tuesday.
A stump and some wood shavings are all that remains of the work depicting a giant phallus which stood nearly two meters (six feet) tall in the Alpine village of Rettenberg, according to the local Allgaeuer Zeitung newspaper.
“Someone must have sawn it off during the night,” a local woman told the newspaper.
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