http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-24/bowens-big-mango-goes-missing/5279796
Bowen's Big Mango attraction goes missing in north Queensland
Updated 11 minutes ago
Bowen's 10-metre high iconic Big Mango has gone missing from the north Queensland town overnight.
A Bowen Tourist Information employee arrived at work this morning to find the 10-tonne fibreglass structure gone.
Bowen Tourism chairman Paul McLaughlin says there had been no planned maintenance for the popular tourist attraction.
Mr McLaughlin said an employee received a big shock when she arrived at work to find the tourist attraction gone.
"I got a phone call from Christin Short, the tourism manager ... I thought she was joking to start off with, but she said 'no, I'm serious', so I've come out and sure enough the mango has disappeared," he said.
He says CCTV vision shows the culprits using big machinery to take the mango.
"It looks like it was sort of two o'clock this morning-type thing - there was ... some heavy equipment and it looks like they've taken the mango, so we're just working through that now," he said.
Mr McLaughlin says he expects the popular attraction to reappear again.
"I can honestly say this is the first time I've ever come across something like this - I'm sure it won't stay gone forever," he said.
"I don't know where it is but I'm sure some stage in the future we'll start getting some phone calls."
Police say they have not received an official complaint and are not investigating the mango's disappearance.
There is speculation the disappearance is part of a publicity stunt.
what happened to the prawns original spot?
When I was a kid there was a little servo that had a big pineapple or was it a big teepee, hmmm maybe it was both.....
They were little by todays standards but to a kid they seemed huge
It was a petrol station and the roads and highways have changed
They should have buried the ugly thing.
The big pineapple wasn't very big about the size of a cubby. It is still there I think
