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Old January 27th, 2006, 08:58 AM posted to rec.travel.europe
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Default Thieves stealing England's Bronze statuary

From the NT Times, it was in the Herald Tribune this morning.


Thieves Fond of Heavy Lifting Are Making Off With England's Bronze
Sculptures
By SARAH LYALL


LONDON, Jan. 25 ‹ The stolen works include the enormous ‹ a hulking two-ton
sculpture by Henry Moore ‹ and the comparatively modest ‹ a three-foot-long
dung beetle by the artist Wendy Taylor. In between, there was a seven-foot
lion, a life-size warthog and one of three abstract human figures that make
up the sculptor Lynn Chadwick's huge "Three Watchers."

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go the following for the rest of the article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/26/ar...1&pagewanted=p
rint

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Comments; If thieves are able to haul away two tons of statuary without
being caught, this does not speak well for police services. The article
indicates that this is an often committed type of crime.

Maybe they should ask for aid from Bush's terrorists chasers who have
tapped every telephone in the world.



 




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