They have been finding statue of the founder of Kentucky Fried lost Chicken for 24 years

09:12 A.M. Tokyo. - A statue of colonel Sanders, founder of the fast chain of food American Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), was reclaimed today of a Japanese river, 24 years after it was thrown to the water by euphoric fans of baseball.

According to local agency Kyodo informed, the statue was lost in the heat of in 1985 celebration of the title of league on the part of the equipment of baseball of Osaka (center of Japan), the Hanshin Tigers.

Colonel Sanders remembered the American player to them Randy Bass, who militated in the rows of an equipment known in Japan to have a especially fanatical fan.

The divers found half yesterday superior of the statue of colonel Sanders, founder of the company, in the Dotombori river of Osaka, and today they reclaimed the part inferior in a near zone, during the works of construction of a dock.

After that one incident, the equipment did not secure during years any victory, something that some followers attributed to a “curse” caused by the loss of the statue, according to Kyodo.

At this moment the KFC company and the city council of Osaka are debating the type of the statue, although to the Kentucky Fried Chicken it would like to maintain it, according to said a spokesman to Efe.