Tim C. wrote:
Following up to Earl Evleth :

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...gewanted=print

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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.



If planned reasonably well, it only takes a very short time to nick
something like that.
No-one's going to question the workers if a truck turns up even in the
middle of the day and starts loading up. At night when there's no-one
around might be more suspicious, but less likely to be seen at all.

Mind you, having seen photos of the stolen works of art, all I can say is
"thank goodness". The dung beetle's ok.
--
Tim C.

It would be interesting to know if they are being stolen for their scrap
value - bronze scrap is very valuable - or their artistic merit. If the
former, then most likely they will be cut up and melted down in very
short time.

T.