SKIRMISHER

At least one of the Oscar statuettes missed it flight to Hollywood.

After an early-morning photo shoot; after being put in a plastic bag, tucked into a formfitting foam container, and placed in a cardboard box that was put next to seven other cardboard boxes filled with more than 40 of his Oscar buddies, somehow No. 3453 took a wrong turn.

Instead of being loaded onto a truck and driven to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport with the others, his foam container was inadvertently removed from the box and set aside.

So while the rest of his Oscar family headed to the airport — an SUV carrying two gun-toting off-duty Chicago cops following close behind — No. 3453 remained behind at the R.S. Owens factory where he and the others were brought into the world last month.

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