(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 ...

FALLON – A 9-foot-tall SpongeBob SquarePants stolen from a Burger King here last week has been rescued in one piece with only his body and ego deflated. A 19-year-old Fallon man brought the missing ...

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 ...

LEWISTON, Idaho — Call it a cartoon-napping. Lewiston police are searching for the thieves who stole a 14-foot inflatable SpongeBob SquarePants replica from the roof of a burger joint. Police say the ...

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 ...