The life-size letters t, o and p of the Top 2000 have disappeared. They stood for days as a major eye-catcher in front of the Sound and Vision museum, which will serve as a Top 2000 Café until the turn of the year, but were stolen last night. The big question arises: where have they gone?
Security guards at the Hilversum Media Park were just too late last night. Bystanders saw that the perpetrators were stealing the letters and immediately alerted the organization. “We soon heard about it, but were just too late to prevent the theft,” says NPO Radio 2 spokesperson Marcel Frost. “We saw them disappear in the distance.”
The national radio station has reported the theft, the police are investigating.
Stunt of a New Year’s association?
Chances are quite likely that the police will not have to search for the three letters for very long. The theft fits perfectly in the series of stunts by New Year’s association De Geitefok from the Frisian Oldeberkoop. The young people went off with a year ago the Lego statue of André Hazes, which stood on the Dam. In the years before, the Olympic rings of the Olympic Stadium, among other things, had to believe it.
Goat breeding chairman Jan-Bart Hof raises a smoke screen when NH News asks him about the letters. “I don’t know anything,” he says firmly. When we ask further questions, he just lets go of a ‘it could just be’. Hof is audibly struggling to suppress a laugh and promises to contact him if the letters ‘accidentally turn up in Friesland’.
After the earlier remarkable thefts of the Frisians became national news, the stolen objects returned neatly and undamaged after the turn of the year. In that respect, Hilversum does not seem to have to worry.
No phone call to Friesland yet
The suggestion that the Frisian New Year’s Eve association may be behind the theft has also not gone unnoticed by NPO Radio 2, but the spokesperson does not want to speculate. “We heard it, but I really don’t want to say anything about it. I also think that’s too much speculation. We leave it to the police.”
The spokesman for the radio station also says that it has not yet called Friesland.