Help Free Bob!

Bob is currently locked up, through no fault of his own, and folks are scrambling to get a campaign complete with petition going to help him reclaim freedom. Please help free Bob!

Fittingly, Moosehead Breweries in Saint John, N.B. have stepped up and will be taking over all legal expenses! They have also added the campaign to free Bob to their corporate web site along with a link to the petition: http://www.moosehead.com/corporate/freebob.html




April 4, 2006

Your mission: To help Free Bob!
Join the petition to set loose this kingly piece of Canadiana, seized by the province's ministry of natural resources
By MARK BONOKOSKI

Our mission today, should you choose to accept, is to vigorously launch the Free Bob campaign -- to set loose what's left of a moose that is being held in captivity by enforcement officials within the ministry of natural resources.

It may seem frivolous, but it is not.

Frivolous is to concern ourselves with today's speech from the throne, with Iraq and Afghanistan, with the price of gas at the pumps, and with whether Pamela Anderson's near-baring of her puppies at the Junos will save a single seal.

Those scenarios are out of our control.

We are here today to free a moose head named Bob.
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April 1, 2006
No excuse for moose
How was he to know it was illegal to sell the thing?
By TRACY MCLAUGHLIN, SPECIAL TO THE SUN


Ken Procyk, seen with girlfriend Stacey Madden in 1990 when they were both aged 16, poses with Bob at the Procyk family cottage near Kingston. The magic moose later led to a marriage. Bob, meanwhile, is in lockup.


NEWMARKET -- A man who was hauled into court after he sold a stuffed moose head on eBay says he's going to fight to the end to get "Bob" back.

"This is ridiculous," Ken Procyk, 34, said yesterday after rejecting a Crown offer to settle the case.

The Aurora businessman said he had no idea selling the majestic moose head that his family fondly nicknamed Bob was against the law.
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March 28, 2006

Man fined for selling a moose head on eBay
By MARK BONOKOSKI

Two Ontario conservation officers -- complete with field kit of bulletproof vests and sidearms -- show up at Ken Procyk's Aurora home one day and pull out their ID.

Introductions and formalities over, one cuts to the chase.

"Are you trying to sell a moose head on eBay?" he asks.

"No," replies Procyk. "I've sold a moose head on eBay. Why? Is there some kind of problem?"

And so it began.
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