@[email protected] to [email protected] • 9 months agoDaily Discussion Thread: 🚂 🍰🚂🍰🚂 Thursday, September 19, 2024message-square178fedilinkarrow-up123
arrow-up123message-squareDaily Discussion Thread: 🚂 🍰🚂🍰🚂 Thursday, September 19, 2024@[email protected] to [email protected] • 9 months agomessage-square178fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•9 months agoCan’t believe the bear on a bike at Barkly Square was stolen? https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/sep/19/sparkly-bear-statue-stolen-theft-sydney-road-melbourne-ntwnfb
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilink4•9 months agoThe 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•9 months agoProfessional scrap metal thieves, like the ones that steal the copper cables from railway crossings to sell.
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilink3•9 months agowho has a big enough pot to melt it down? and who would buy it?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•9 months agoThere has to be somewhere they take it to cut it into smaller anonymous pieces. Some crooked metalworking place
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•9 months agoLots 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.
Can’t believe the bear on a bike at Barkly Square was stolen?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/sep/19/sparkly-bear-statue-stolen-theft-sydney-road-melbourne-ntwnfb
Aww man I love that sculpture ☹️
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.
Professional scrap metal thieves, like the ones that steal the copper cables from railway crossings to sell.
who has a big enough pot to melt it down?
and who would buy it?
There has to be somewhere they take it to cut it into smaller anonymous pieces.
Some crooked metalworking place
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.