• Seagoon_OP
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    3 months ago

    The thieves used a crane!!! Seems very organised. You don’t just steal a very heavy very famous sculpture to put in your own front yard.

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      3 months ago

      Professional scrap metal thieves, like the ones that steal the copper cables from railway crossings to sell.

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        3 months ago

        who has a big enough pot to melt it down?

        and who would buy it?

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          3 months ago

          There has to be somewhere they take it to cut it into smaller anonymous pieces.

          Some crooked metalworking place

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            3 months ago

            Lots of these - with big machines to chop metal things up into smaller bits. Until recently there was one in Weston St in Brunswick - just near Barkly Square and next door to the Comanchero Bikie Gang headquarters. Not a coincidence I think.