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Nine News: 'Hitchhiker' sculpture stolen from roadside

  • 22-03-2011 2:46pm
    #1
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭


    I saw this on the nine o clock RTE news last night,

    Apparently it was made of bronze, worth about 30K and weighed a ton.

    I wonder who would rob something this big and where it will eventually end up? :confused:


    http://www.rte.ie/news/av/2011/0321/media-2928610.html


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  • #2
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    I took it for Dodgeball practice.


  • #3
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Culprit had on an orange tee shirt and blue shorts and could be heard saying "cowabunga dude" as he skateboarded away from the scene.


  • #4
    prinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    Presumably for scrap metal? Oh look...

    http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/gardai-crack-down-on-illegal-scrap-collections-in-cork-498080.html


    Pickaxes, slashhooks, horses..........nope no idea who could be involved.


  • #5
    PK2008
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    Can the bronze be melted down and sold?




    If so please give details.............


  • #6
    RichieC
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    God I wonder who would do a thing like that... :rolleyes:


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  • #7
    mawk
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    hmm, bronze aint cheap at the moment, or ever really..
    30k is probably as much as an ATM robbery. If you can quickly shift it as "scrap" its probably a pretty attractive heist.

    ladies, lock up your sculptures!


  • #8
    Yakult
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    Was it on a Motorway? Video is crashing for me so cant see it.


  • #9
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    prinz wrote: »
    Presumably for scrap metal? Oh look...

    http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/gardai-crack-down-on-illegal-scrap-collections-in-cork-498080.html


    Pickaxes, slashhooks, horses..........nope no idea who could be involved.
    Horses? :confused:

    I didn't think there was any cow boys in this country.


  • #10
    charlemont
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    Some pikey fecked the Fish With Balls by the River Suir on the Old Cahir ByPass too..


  • #11
    Turtyturd
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    prinz wrote: »
    Presumably for scrap metal? Oh look...

    http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/gardai-crack-down-on-illegal-scrap-collections-in-cork-498080.html


    Pickaxes, slashhooks, horses..........nope no idea who could be involved.

    No mention of capret or dodgy wii's though...might wanna hold back on the assumptions.;)

    Gotta love the comments though 'have they nothing better to be doing for goodness sake how about going after some real criminals'


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  • #12
    Nodin
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    Yakult wrote: »
    Was it on a Motorway? Video is crashing for me so cant see it.

    Few yards off it, yep


  • #13
    TheZohanS
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    It's a puzzle...what sort of people would have an interest in metal and wouldn't be too shy about stealing...

    ....mystery.


  • #14
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,430 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    prinz wrote: »
    Presumably for scrap metal? Oh look...

    http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/gardai-crack-down-on-illegal-scrap-collections-in-cork-498080.html


    Pickaxes, slashhooks, horses..........nope no idea who could be involved.
    ha i know the guy on the news was dying to say "knackers" but had to settle with "seems we have a problem with........er bronze stealers"


  • #15
    prinz
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    Not the first statue to go missing either. There have been a few more nicked from the sides of motorways in the last while. Been a spate of them in the UK too.


  • #16
    FatherLen
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    it was ugly anyway!


  • #17
    Run_to_da_hills
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    prinz wrote: »
    Not the first statue to go missing either. There have been a few more nicked from the sides of motorways in the last while. Been a spate of them in the UK too.
    A good few years ago someone castrated the balls off the bronze stag on the M20 between Mallow and Cork, I wonder how much they got for the balls in a scrap yard. :D


  • #18
    jester77
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    The spire will be next!


  • #19
    irish_goat
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    jester77 wrote: »
    The spire will be next!

    They're welcome to it.


  • #20
    karlog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭karlog


    I'd say there's a 99% chance it was stolen by pikeys.


  • #21
    Overheal
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    it was a hitchhiker statue?

    was it asking for a lift?


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  • #22
    TheZohanS
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    Overheal wrote: »
    it was a hitchhiker statue?

    was it asking for a lift?


    Nah, that was the virgin Mary a few years ago.


  • #23
    humanji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    TheZohan wrote: »
    It's a puzzle...what sort of people would have an interest in metal and wouldn't be too shy about stealing...

    ....mystery.
    A grizzled old prospector?


  • #24
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,349 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    humanji wrote: »
    A grizzled old prospector?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsBRfmErTEA


    Could be, could be.


  • #25
    ascanbe
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    TheZohan wrote: »
    It's a puzzle...what sort of people would have an interest in metal and wouldn't be too shy about stealing...

    ....mystery.

    Jane's Addiction? Not exactly metal but they sometimes displayed an element of it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNH57uvOcU8


  • #26
    seamus
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    How long before the statue of Phil Lynott disappears overnight...


  • #27
    UpTheSlashers
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    charlemont wrote: »
    Some pikey fecked the Fish With Balls by the River Suir on the Old Cahir ByPass too..

    You mean the one which was moved by the County Council to in front of Cahir Castle, where it currently stands today?


  • #28
    Standman
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    Hitchhiker lifted from side of road. I'm sure there's a joke there somewhere


  • #29
    ejmaztec
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    Standman wrote: »
    Hitchhiker lifted from side of road. I'm sure there's a joke there somewhere


    ...last seen on a Ryanair flight to Luton looking for a job.


  • #30
    SomeFool
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    :cool:
    karlog wrote: »
    I'd say there's a 99% chance it was stolen by pikeys.

    so a 1% chance it came to life and fecked off on it's own :)


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  • #31
    squod
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    Woulda took a few men with a consaw and a flat bodied truck. If anyone has seen a few men, they should alert the guards :rolleyes:


  • #32
    Irish Fire
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    http://thehelpfulengineer.com/index.php/2011/03/motorway-art-the-hitchhiker-gets-a-lift/

    This is a picture...... Not that it looks like that now.........

    Wonder when they'll take the ball at Naas?? :)


  • #33
    OutlawPete
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    seamus wrote: »
    How long before the statue of Phil Lynott disappears overnight...

    They wouldn't get far.

    The rockers in Bruxelles would batter them.


  • #34
    charlemont
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,725 ✭✭✭charlemont


    UpTheSlashers wrote: »
    You mean the one which was moved by the County Council to in front of Cahir Castle, where it currently stands today?

    I had no idea thats were it ended up, Why put it in front of Cahir Castle ?


  • #35
    karlog
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    SomeFool wrote: »
    :cool:

    so a 1% chance it came to life and fecked off on it's own :)

    Who knows we may have pikey wizards about.


  • #36
    LETHAL LADY
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    He went to give guides to the galaxy.


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  • #37
    Yakult
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    It got arrested for hitchhiking.
    Not allowed to do that on Motorways.


  • #38
    UpTheSlashers
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    charlemont wrote: »
    I had no idea thats were it ended up, Why put it in front of Cahir Castle ?

    Part of the renewal of the beginning of the Swiss cottage walk. They have lovely new steps going up towards the back of Cahir House and a few picnic tables under the trees by the river.


  • #39
    gbee
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    IMO, they are doing us a favour, too many of these 'sculptures' are monstrosities and should never have been commissioned.

    Value and scrap value are different, there'd be only a few hundred to about a max of €1,000 to be got from it as scrap.


  • #40
    strokemyclover
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    I just seen a member of the Monasterevin Massive doing donuts in his souped up Honda Accord with that thing on the bonnet! :eek:


  • #41
    ScumLord
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    It was left at the side of the road, that makes it fair game, just like telephone poles and road kill.


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  • #42
    PrincessLola
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    chin_grin wrote: »
    Culprit had on an orange tee shirt and blue shorts and could be heard saying "cowabunga dude" as he skateboarded away from the scene.

    He took the whole statue, not just the head..


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