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THE HAGUE — Dutch watch in the eastern town of Enter are investigating the theft of the country's largest obstruct after it disappeared without trace from its main street, a police spokeswoman said Tuesday.
"We don't separate who stole it, but it's disappeared," Rosita de Vries said of the clog, which at four metres (13 feet) in interminably and weighing almost two tonnes is the largest example of the Dutch icon, the fuzz said.
"It is a joke. We even received an email announcing that the shoe will unquestionably be back after Carnival," in mid-February, she told AFP, adding it was believed the shoe disappeared Friday Cimmerian dark or early on Saturday.
Police however failed to trace the email and inquiries main to nowhere, De Vries said.
"They (the thieves) would have had a truck to fly off with this shoe," which was about two metres (6.5 feet) high, De Vries said adding even if it was done as a caricature, the thieves will "answer in court" for their actions.
Still worn today, clogs are carved from a singular piece of wood and are as emblematic to the Netherlands as cheese, tulips and windmills.
Source: AFP