(Cleveland, Ohio-NBC/AP) Dec. 5, 2004 - It looks like SpongeBob SquarePants will be home for the holidays. Dozens of the inflatable cartoon characters have been stolen from Burger King restaurants ...

Two different sets of inflatable SpongeBob SquarePants holiday decorations were stolen in Inwood. The decorations were outside two Seaman Avenue apartments in Manhattan. The thief made off with the ...

METAIRIE, La., Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Louisiana police say Ronald McDonald was an unwiling participant in the spongenapping of a Burger King's inflatable SpongeBob SquarePants. SpongeBob disappeared from ...

If a giant inflatable SpongeBob SquarePants is stolen from a rooftop, is it a theft or a spongenapping? That’s what police in at least six states need to decide. SpongeBob SquarePants figures have ...

Though dozens of inflatable SpongeBob SquarePants have recently been stolen from Burger King locations nationwide, the company says it’s no publicity stunt. “We’re very surprised by this,” said Eric ...

NORWICH The mystery of the disappearance of a 6-foot inflatable SpongeBob Square Pants from the Norwich Burger King has been solved. It was not thievery. It was the heat. Police said Tuesday the case ...