Residents of Frankville, Ontario, a small town near Ottawa are all abuzz over a fork in the road that’s gone missing — a real fork, that is.
For the last two years, the nearly 10-foot stainless steel fork in the middle of the split, but now it’s gone.
In 2019, Frankville resident Bill Gibbons approached Brant Burrow, the township’s mayor, with a request to place the metal sculpture on city land.
“The whole council unanimously got behind it,” Burrow tells CTV News. “It’s quirky, it’s unique, it’s really fun and when it went missing it was a real gut-punch. It’s so senseless.”
Artist Chris Banfalvi, who spent months fabricating the giant utensil, agrees.
“It’s kind of hard for them to scrap it because I know all the scrap yards and I’ve called them, so they know me and they know my art,” notes Banfalvi, adding he’s committed to replacing the piece.
A police report has been filed. But for Gibbons, the solution is simple.
“They should just return it. Drop it off in the middle of the night for all I care, and we can put it back up.”