Gazebo Flyer Investigation Ruled Inconclusive, Pending Clearer Footage
A five-month probe into who keeps taking the Esther Short Park flyers ends the way they all end.
By B.F. Patterson · Investigations ·
VANCOUVER — A five-month investigation by this paper into the systematic disappearance of community-event flyers from the Esther Short Park gazebo was formally closed Tuesday with a finding of inconclusive, pending clearer footage.
The investigation compiled four photographs, of which three are blurry and one is of the investigating reporter’s thumb. A witness places either a crow or a city employee at the gazebo on the morning of the June disappearances; he could not rule out both.
The City of Vancouver states that it operates no flyer-removal program, which investigators noted is exactly what a city operating a flyer-removal program would state.
The case remains open, as do all of this desk’s cases, dating to 1967.
The desk maintains that the truth is out there, posted to a gazebo, briefly.