Imagine you are walking down the street at 4 AM, and you see a flatbed truck with four bronze Yoda statues parked in front of a motel. What would you do?

Headline AP: Someone Steals Statue of Yoda

PASADENA, Calif. - Someone lifted a 170-pound bronze statue of Yoda, the “Star Wars” Jedi master.

Nice touch, that. They must be pretty strong to “lift a 170-pound bronze statue”.

The theft from a flatbed truck was reported to police last weekend and artist Lawrence Noble, 55, of Crestline has offered a ,000 reward for its return. The limited-edition bronze is worth up to $20,000.

“It’s a real high-end collectible,” Noble said.

Yes, very high-end. That’s some serious cash. You could convert 20,000 CDs to MP3 with that much money.

The statue was one of four bolted to a flatbed truck parked overnight Jan. 17 at the Westway Inn on Colorado Boulevard. The driver parked the truck in the parking lot so they could keep an eye on the statues, police spokeswoman Janet Pope said.

But someone grabbed Yoda that night or early the next morning

“We are treating this as a burglary and we’d appreciate any information the public might have,” Pope said.

The police force must be highly trained to come to that conclusion so quickly and only three statues as evidence.

The statues were being transported from Artworks Foundry in Berkeley to DKE Enterprises in Los Angeles to be sold, Noble said. Lucasfilm Ltd. commissioned the statues, a part of a planned series featuring other “Star Wars” characters.

Personally, I’d hold out for the truck with the Princess Leia statue with cinnamon buns in her hair. Now that would look a lot better than a wrinkled frog/pig thing in my living room.