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Lock City Dairies suffers another cow-napping

L.C. Sue has gone missing again. SooToday.com has learned that the udderly famous Lock City Dairies mascot went missing sometime early Sunday from the front entrance of the Shoppers Drug Mart at Cambrian Mall.
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L.C. Sue has gone missing again.

SooToday.com has learned that the udderly famous Lock City Dairies mascot went missing sometime early Sunday from the front entrance of the Shoppers Drug Mart at Cambrian Mall.

"Someone probably took her to their party, or put her somewhere where we're supposed to find her," says Lock City owner Vic Fremlin.

Fremlin (shown) says he'll provide a reward to anyone who can supply information leading to L.C.'s safe return.

The mascot was reported missing by Shoppers staffers, who noticed her absence when they opened the store on Sunday and phoned Fremlin around 10 a.m. to ask whether he'd removed her.

Interestingly, the last reported sighting of the well-travelled bovine appears to have been by SooToday.com News.

We went to the store after-hours thinking it was open 24 hours and can confirm that she was there as late as 12:45 a.m. Sunday.

L.C. Sue made a much-publicized disappearance last June, eventually showing up on an island in the St. Mary's River near the end of Wall's Road at Gros Cap.

Police found her there after receiving a Crime Stoppers tip.

The famous mascot has made requested appearances at three weddings and one funeral, Fremlin says.

About six years ago, she was a special guest at Dick Pollard's funeral at the Arthur Funeral Home.

Pollard was a dairy farmer who had a life-size plastic cow on his front lawn. He moved the cow each morning to fool his neighbours into thinking it was real.

"Mrs. Pollard wanted the visitation and funeral to reflect her husband's personality, so the funeral home was transformed into a corral with bales of hay," the Globe and Mail's Sarah Kennedy said in an account of the funeral published last year.

"The plastic cow was set up in the chapel .... Lock City Dairy employees who worked with Mr. Pollard brought another plastic cow with a wreath around its neck to express their condolences to the family," the newspaper reported.


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