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Article: NT: Art heist, or drunken prank?
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- April 1, 2008
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AAP General News (Australia)
04-01-2008
NT: Art heist, or drunken prank?
By Tara Ravens
DARWIN, April 1 AAP - Nights on the turps usually end with a dodgy kebab, not a half
million dollar art heist.
But drunken itinerants in Darwin are suspected of carrying out a brazen museum robbery
and walking away with Aboriginal art worth more than $500,000.
Seven paintings were stolen from the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
in Darwin early today, only to be found in bushland less than 400 metres away about eight
hours later.
The paintings were undamaged.
"Well, it's not an April Fools' Joke, it has just been a rather excessive occurrence,
an extreme occurrence," museum ...