Teddy Returns! Austism Awareness Bear Back At N.J. Diner After Being Stolen

CLIFTON, N.J. (CBSNewYork) -- An autism awareness teddy bear is back where it belongs after being stolen from a diner in New Jersey.

The bear has been returned to Allwood Diner in Clifton.

An Autism awareness bear that was stolen from the Allwood Diner. (credit: Facebook/Allwood Diner)

Surveillance video showed the bearnapper walk into the diner earlier this week and then back run out, carrying the large stuffed animal.

We wanted to update everyone on a positive development in the saga of Teddy our autism bear! It is our pleasure to...

Posted by Allwood Diner on Wednesday, October 3, 2018

The owner said it was a "youngster making a not-well-thought-out-prank."

"To him it was just a stuffed bear, but he quickly realized what this bear meant to Allwood Diner and the Clifton community," the diner said in a Facebook post.

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