“Man Breaks into Museum and Tries to Steal Elephant Tusk with Chainsaw”

Early yesterday morning, a man broke into Paris’s Museum of Natural History and used a chainsaw to cut off the tusk of a 325-year-old elephant skeleton before being caught shortly afterward by police.

Neighbors of the museum called police after hearing a “a strange sawing sound at around 3am” (that would be the chainsaw). When police arrived, they found the thief, who was in his 20s, desperately trying to scale a wall while carrying a tusk, having left the still-whirring chainsaw next to the elephant skeleton. The thief fractured his ankle during his would-be escape.

via Man Breaks into Museum and Tries to Steal Elephant Tusk with Chainsaw.

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