Update : According toThe Globe and Mail , the stealer has since mail the toe back to the barroom along with an apologia banknote . The toe is reportedly in “ safe term . ”
The Sourdough Saloon ’s toe has go missing . The outgrowth is the central fixings in the Sourtoe Cocktail , theinfamous specialtyof theDowntown Hotel’sbar in the Yukon town of Dawson City . A stealing customer made off with the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks - cured big toe on Saturday , June 17 , after drinking his whisky - and - old - foot cocktail .
This is not the first toe to disappear . The original toe was accidentally swallow , and since then , the bar has cycled through more than a half - dozen amputated digits , enough that it instituted a fine for any toe - related harm . After a patron purposefully gulped down the toe , put $ 500 on the table , and left the bar in 2013 , the Saloon had to arouse the fine for swallowing or slip the body part to $ 2500 .
The bar ’s management is , understandably , reasonably distressed about the red . " Toes are very hard to do by , " the Downtown Hotel ’s Terry Lee said in amedia liberation . This most recent toe was donate by someone who had to have it amputated , and it had to be heal in saltiness for six months before it could be used in cocktails .
" This was our new toe , and it was a really good one , " hotel managing director Geri Coulbourne bemoan to theCBC . " We just started using it this weekend . " ( Although the hotel says it has a few back - ups to use in the meantime . )
What ’s more , the frequenter should n’t have even been served the Sourtoe , as he request it outside of the official " Toe 60 minutes , " which run from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. every night , and it was pure unselfishness on the bartender ’s part to service him . That generosity was n’t rewarded , it seems . According to the media handout , the man had antecedently been heard boast about run off with the toe .
The police are still searching for the stealer — who left his award certificate behind — and the legal profession to the full intends to collect its fine .
[ h / tChris Windeyer via Twitter ]
