Green Gay Bulls' highway sign has wandered off
Brian Higgins | CBC News | Posted: August 29, 2016 3:00 PM | Last Updated: August 29, 2016
LGBT-friendly business owner has seen this before
The owner of the Green Gay Bulls B&B in Vernon Bridge, Jim Culbert, says someone has made off with a colourful highway sign that advertises his LGBT-friendly bed and breakfast.
"It was not ripped off the frame but someone took the time to somehow get up to the snaps and unhook the sign," Culbert wrote in an email to CBC.
Culbert believes the sign was taken in the early hours of Monday morning. He has contacted Island RCMP to report the sign missing.
The sign was posted in front of his business on a busy stretch of the Trans-Canada highway, mid-way between Charlottetown and the Wood Islands ferry. The road is often travelled by tourists at this time of year. Green Gay Bulls is a play on words, in reference to the novel Anne of Green Gables.
"I suspect that is was taken as a souvenir, as they seem to have not made any damage to the frame that the sign was erected on," he wrote.
Culbert has operated B&Bs in Vernon Bridge for decades and has often used rainbow-coloured signage to advertise his LGBT-friendly establishments.
His signs have been damaged and stolen on occasion in the past.
The missing sign also advertises Culbert's upholstery business.
"I would be happy just to get it back as it will be costly to replace and people looking for the BNB or wanting upholstery work done could miss the property," Culbert wrote.
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