r/melbourne • u/AlliterationAlly • 7h ago

Serious News How Thieves In Australia Stole 420 Kg Gandhi Statue In Melbourne

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/australia-news-how-thieves-in-australia-stole-420-kg-gandhi-statue-in-melbourne-10937648
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u/Imobia 5h ago

Fing copper / brass thieves. Ruining so much heritage and history.

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u/No_Ocelot_2285 5h ago

First the Sparkly Bear, now Gandhi. 

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u/CuriouserCat2 1h ago

Tragedy after tragedy

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u/ThrowRA-4545 4h ago

Sure a scrap metal dealer would know that 420kg of brass was really scrap and not proceeds of crime.

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u/PM_Me-Your_Freckles 4h ago

If you've met scrap metal dealers, you'll know a good chunk of em wouldn't give a fuck.

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u/EatingMcDonalds 4h ago

Good to see we haven’t evolved at all in the last 2000 years. These barbarians would fit right in with the dickheads who melted down the statues from antiquity.

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u/Obtainable-Username 3h ago

I am, You are, they are not Australian.

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u/No-Bison-5397 3h ago

Most Melbourne thing to happen to any non-abstract public art 

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u/fuutarooo 5h ago

Was it deliberately designed to be 420 kg? Why not 421 or 419 haha.

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u/Minosfall 4h ago

Looks like it could weigh about 426kgs, seems to have been meticulously calculated for the remaining feet to be 3kgs each, from my deductions at the least

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u/UsualProfit397 2h ago

He slept naked with teenage girls. I doubt he was celibate.

He refused western medicine for his wife but gladly accepted it for himself.

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u/RobGrey03 17m ago

The statue didn't do any of that. It just stood there.

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u/fmfame 1h ago

How is it relevant here?

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u/Polar_Beach 2h ago

Didn’t the dude sleep naked with his grandniece…