Michelin experiences Easter ‘kidnapping’

April 22 wasn’t a good Friday for the statue of Bibendum (the rotund white figure also known as the Michelin Man, in case you aren’t yet on first-name terms) gracing the entrance to Michelin’s Ballymena factory in Northern Ireland. The four-foot tall statue at the County Atrim plant was stolen in the early hours of April 22 and whisked away from the scene in an estate car. According to the BBC, the £2,500 local icon appears not to have left his post outside the Ballymena plant without a struggle, however – one of his feet remains in place.

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