News Tech: A prize is being offered by the proprietors of a company in Atomic City after they claim someone damaged their business sign earlier this week.
On their drive home from town on Tuesday afternoon, they initially noticed that one sign was gone.
Together with her husband, Blake Lyle, Vickie O’Haro is the co-owner of Atomic City Bar & Store and Atomic Motor Raceway. She claims that four 46 signs along U.S. Highway 26 were destroyed: two at the midway point between Blackfoot and Arco, and the other two right before the connection road leading to Atomic City.
O’Haro says, “It was approximately a quarter to one.” We observed a baja buggy and a truck on a pullout road (near one of the signs on the way into Atomic City). The sign that you would see heading into the Site was only partially there when we returned.
Although O’Haro is unsure of the perpetrator, he speculates that it could be someone they expelled from their establishment in May.
About six and a half years have passed since the signs went up. Even though we are in the middle of nowhere, the signs attract a lot of customers, she claims. O’Haro claims that despite filing a report with the Bingham County Sheriff’s Office, they have not received a response. They merely demand that the offender be held accountable.