Students have appealed for the safe return of a cardboard cutout of Hollywood star Danny DeVito amid reports it was ‘kidnapped’ and taken to Dundee University.
Pictures of the popular actor’s portrait posed in various locations have become a regular fixture on the York University confessions page Yorfessions.
But students raised the alarm after a similar cutout was spotted nearly 300 miles away in the City of Discovery, prompting fears the original may have been taken from its home in York and smuggled north of the border.
One social media user on the page Dunfess, the Dundee equivalent of the York confessions site, claimed the image of Mr DeVito had been “kidnapped”.
It was later seen at a location in Dundee.
The spotting has prompted an emotional plea for it to be returned to its rightful owner. However, it is not yet known whether the cutout popularised in York is the same one seen in Dundee this week.
The student who posted the appeal, who confirmed she is from the city but is currently studying in York, has attempted to broker the safe return of Mr DeVito.
She said:”Please leave Danny in the Magdalen Green bandstand by 10pm on the July 6 for his safe recovery and return to both a superior city, university and even, perhaps – country.
“I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money (I have to pay crippling tuition fees).
“But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long undergraduate degree, skills that make me a nightmare for students of Dundee.
“If you let my Danny go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you. I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will be extremely cross with you.”
