LSU fans keep stealing Coach O cardboard cutouts from fast-food chain
Raising Cane's restaurants in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, have experienced a string of thefts of life-sized Ed Orgeron cardboard cutouts ahead of Monday's College Football Playoff National Championship title game.
The fast-food chain's original location had five or six of the cutouts of the LSU head coach stolen recently, according to WBRZ-TV's Trey Schmaltz. Other restaurants across the city have also had cutouts go missing.
Raising Cane's founder and CEO Todd Graves tweeted surveillance footage of some of the thefts, and seems to have found some humor in the situation.
Leggo my Coach O 🐯🤣 pic.twitter.com/wim4xI5wlR
— Todd Graves (@ToddGraves) January 12, 2020
New Orleans-area non-profit Basket of Hope, meanwhile, has partnered with Raising Cane's and Orgeron to give out cutouts to fans who make a $300 donation to the charity.
Where’d Coach O geaux? 👀 @Coach_EdOrgeron #coachO pic.twitter.com/uo2vIL0hXs
— Todd Graves (@ToddGraves) January 12, 2020
Caniacs prepping for the big game like.... #coachO #geauxtigahs @Coach_EdOrgeron 🐯v🐯 pic.twitter.com/3NGVIKNFFy
— Todd Graves (@ToddGraves) January 10, 2020