Seagoon_@aussie.zone to Melbourne@aussie.zone · 17 days agoDaily 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 days agomessage-square179fedilink
minus-squareLlabyrinthine@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·16 days 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-squareSeagoon_@aussie.zoneOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·16 days 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-squareThornburywitch@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·16 days agoProfessional scrap metal thieves, like the ones that steal the copper cables from railway crossings to sell.
minus-squareSeagoon_@aussie.zoneOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·16 days agowho has a big enough pot to melt it down? and who would buy it?
minus-squaremelbaboutown@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·16 days agoThere has to be somewhere they take it to cut it into smaller anonymous pieces. Some crooked metalworking place
minus-squareThornburywitch@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·16 days 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.
minus-squarePeelerSheila @aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·16 days agoAww man I love that sculpture ☹️
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
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.
Aww man I love that sculpture ☹️