Well, on Saturday night, the toe was stolen, according to the bar’s “Toe Captain,” Terry Lee.
“We are furious,” he said in a statement sent to Global News. “Toes are very hard to come by.”
“This guy asked to do the Toe after the 9 to 11 p.m. toe time hours and one of the new staff served it to him to be nice – and this is how he pays her back. What a low life,” Lee said.
According to Lee, the man who took the toe was from Quebec, had a French accent, and had earlier bragged about his plans to steal the mummified appendage. The thief also reportedly left behind a certificate earned for drinking the cocktail, which features his name.
The bar intends to find and charge the thief “unless the Toe is returned safe,” Lee’s statement said.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Dawson City are investigating the theft, according to Global News.
BuzzFeed News has a lot of questions and reached out to the RCMP and Downtown Hotel, but did not immediately receive a response.
It’s not the first time the bar has lost a toe. At least eight toes have reportedly gone missing over the years, due to theft and also because some people apparently end up swallowing them.
The hotel lost the OG toe in 1980, after a miner, trying to go for the Sourtoe record, fell backwards in his chair and accidentally swallowed it.
Apparently since then, some people have deliberately tried to swallow the toes. The bar now charges a $ 2,500 fine for eating or swallowing the toe.
Michelle Broder Van Dyke is a reporter and night editor for BuzzFeed News and is based in Hawaii.
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