Seagoon_@aussie.zone to Melbourne@aussie.zone · 17 天前Daily Discussion Thread: 🚂 🍰🚂🍰🚂 Thursday, September 19, 2024message-squaremessage-square179fedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down10
arrow-up123arrow-down1message-squareDaily Discussion Thread: 🚂 🍰🚂🍰🚂 Thursday, September 19, 2024Seagoon_@aussie.zone to Melbourne@aussie.zone · 17 天前message-square179fedilink
minus-squareLlabyrinthine@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·17 天前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
minus-squareSeagoon_@aussie.zoneOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·17 天前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.
minus-squareThornburywitch@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·17 天前Professional scrap metal thieves, like the ones that steal the copper cables from railway crossings to sell.
minus-squareSeagoon_@aussie.zoneOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·17 天前who has a big enough pot to melt it down? and who would buy it?
minus-squaremelbaboutown@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·17 天前There has to be somewhere they take it to cut it into smaller anonymous pieces. Some crooked metalworking place
minus-squareThornburywitch@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·17 天前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.
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.