BANKSY ROBBER
A PRANKSTER thief who stole one of Banksy’s huge statues from a plinth insists he’d happily pinch another one of the graffiti artist’s priceless works.Anything imprinted with the mysterious Brit’s work is immediately at risk of being taken because they sell for six and seven figure sums.The idea that thieves would take a police sentry station might sound implausible but Andy pulled off a far more audacious heist.
He got together a team of friends, borrowed a truck and headed off to central London to grab the statue named The Drinker, which was a play on Rodin’s The Thinker."It was a robbery, even though we were just retrieving a dumped artefact.” When it went up for sale at Sotheby’s auction house in 2019 for an expected £1million, Andy complained that The Drinker had been nicked from him.
Andy still has the traffic cone which Banksy had placed on The Drinker but is struggling to prove it is the genuine article.These days, nobody could steal an artwork without it being major news.
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