Sunday 8 July 2012

Only A Man From Hull...Wait, From Essex?

Thieves stole two valueless warthog tusks from a Pocklington museum after failing to get their hands on a rhino horn.
/facepalm



A warthog


A rhino

*sigh* Only in Hull....

Oh! Wait a minute!
Burnby hall has an advanced CCTV system, and the museum's management were able to give very clear images of the pair to the police. One man also left a handprint on a glass cabinet.
Mr Geekie said: "The police identified one of these guys immediately.
"He was from Essex, but he's no longer at his previous address."
/doublefacepalm

Comments are enthralling...

7 comments:

Dippyness. said...

Why does this not surprise me?
On the serious side. Rhino & Elephant tusks are worth more than gold, drugs or diamonds on the black market, which is tragic.

David Duff said...

Warthog horn! No wonder the bloody stuff didn't work, I've been had!

Mind you I'm eating twice as much as usual!

Furor Teutonicus said...

XX Mr Geekie XX Museum director.... ??WTF??!!

Na. I ain't saying NOTHING.

blueknight said...

The Daily Mail have denied that any of their reporters were involved

Hexe Froschbein said...

WTF bother?

The Chinese fake everything else, so ground cow horn or (say) antler should be trivial.

I can't believe they are so stupid as to be honest about this rip-off...

JuliaM said...

"On the serious side. Rhino & Elephant tusks are worth more than gold, drugs or diamonds on the black market, which is tragic."

Yup, there's been a lot of thefts recently, and even some zoos have seen fit to increase security.

"Mind you I'm eating twice as much as usual!"

:D

"The Chinese fake everything else, so ground cow horn or (say) antler should be trivial."

Who'd know?

Anonymous said...

"He was from Essex"

not by any chance from the non-settled community?