A Vietnam veteran has gotten his missing prosthetic leg back, after a woman allegedly ran off with it outside Lincoln Financial Field during Sunday night's Eagles Game, Philadelphia police said. But this wasn't the first time that the man had his leg stolen - it also happened in the 90s, he said.
Sonny Forriest Jr., a local musician who entertains fans by singing outside of Phillies and Eagles games, claimed his fake limb was stolen while he was performing in the parking lot around 8:30 p.m., according to CNN affiliate WPVI.
After Sunday's game, Forriest Jr. was packing up his car to leave when a group of people appeared and started to dance around him. Since he had taken off his prosthetic leg earlier in the day due to pain, it was placed on the back of his motorized wheelchair.
"There were some friends who were partying with the leg, then they put it back," Forriest Jr. said.
Unexpectedly, an intoxicated woman in Eagles gear approached him and jumped on his lap, breaking his microphone in the process, he told CNN affiliate KYW. The woman, who appeared to be in her 20s, then grabbed the prosthetic leg and took off.
"She jumped in my lap," Forriest Jr. said. "She gripped my leg and I didn't even know it. I looked down and she took my leg! Then she disappeared! A young lady came up, snatched my leg off my chair and took off!"
"She said, 'I will pay you for [the microphone].' I said, 'That's all right, baby, go ahead and have a good time,' and then she disappeared," he added.
After Forriest Jr. filed a police report, the prosthetic leg was discovered by a SEPTA conductor on the train at the other end of the Broad Street Line Subway at the Fern Rock Transportation Center in Olney, NBC10 reported.
The police returned the leg back to Forriest Jr., who said he didn't want to the woman to get into any kind of trouble due to the incident.
"Somebody needs to talk to her, she don't need to go to jail."
Meanwhile, "this isn't the first time Philadelphia sports fans have ended up in the news for odd behavior. In fact, city officials installed a courtroom in the old Eagles' stadium in the late 1990s just to sentence unruly fans," CNN reported.
