Giant 30-foot-tall mango tourist attraction stolen from small Australian town
- 9 years ago
A group of thieves have reportedly made off with a seven-ton, 30-foot-high mango monument from a small town in northern Queensland, Australia, according to an AFP report.
The $90,000 Big Mango was one of the area's iconic tourist attractions, that is, until it was nicked in the early hours of Monday in what was either an elaborate heist or a well-choreographed publicity stunt.
Security footage revealed a group of roughly six thieves approaching the giant fibreglass structure between midnight and 2am early with heavy equipment and a crane.
It wasn't for another few hours, when staff at the town's tourist information center arrived at work that morning, that anybody had discovered the mango had gone missing.
They shouldn't be too worried though, there aren't very many places to hide a three storey-tall mango.
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The $90,000 Big Mango was one of the area's iconic tourist attractions, that is, until it was nicked in the early hours of Monday in what was either an elaborate heist or a well-choreographed publicity stunt.
Security footage revealed a group of roughly six thieves approaching the giant fibreglass structure between midnight and 2am early with heavy equipment and a crane.
It wasn't for another few hours, when staff at the town's tourist information center arrived at work that morning, that anybody had discovered the mango had gone missing.
They shouldn't be too worried though, there aren't very many places to hide a three storey-tall mango.
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