This heist is truly nuts!
A thief snatched a beloved antique walrus penis bone from behind the bar at the famed Camden, NJ cheesesteak joint Donkey’s Place — and staffers are blubbering mad.
“She went to the back to do something else and then one dude stole it,” owner Rob Lucas Jr. told nj.com. “We got his picture, but I don’t think he’s from around town.”
Surveillance footage of the thief leaving with the bone. Facebook/Mia PanellaThe walrus wiener has served as a conversation piece at the restaurant — which Anthony Bourdain once praised as the area’s “best cheesesteak” spot — for years alongside other knickknacks like a megalodon tooth.
But on Jan. 30, a group of three men who had been “drinking for hours” asked to see the artifact — and then one of them bolted with it, according to the bartender involved.
“I can’t even believe he did this… let’s find the guy who stole Donkey’s you-know-what,” she said in a TikTok post the next day.
The bar’s owner doesn’t want to press charges as long as the bone is returned. Facebook/Mia PanellaThe post shows the alleged bone bandit grinning with a beard and clutching a cocktail before leaving with the loot.
“If the person who stole it is watching this, please bring it back. Not the same without it,” she said in the video.
Lucas, meanwhile, said he doesn’t want to press charges, and simply wants the decades-old dong returned to its perch.
“We just want the thing back,” he pleaded.
