Anyway, my brother stumbled on an article today about the National Wax Museum:
Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Franklin D. Roosevelt are missing their clothes and Fred Flintstone and the Teletubbies are just plain missing after a raid on wax figures owned by Ireland's National Wax Museum.
At least 50 figures were stolen or wrecked several weeks ago, the museum reported Monday. The wax museum, closed since 2005, has been storing its 400 figures in a warehouse while it works to reopen this fall.
Police say they suspect a door was left unlocked and the warehouse was used for an all-night rave party but museum officials discount that theory.
Also stripped of their clothes were Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle and rebel icons from Ireland's war of independence with Britain, including Michael Collins and Padraig Pearse.
Most figures stolen came from the Children's World of Fairy Tale and Fantasy section; others were taken from the Chamber of Horrors. Gone are Bob the Builder, Frankenstein's monster, Fred Flintstone, Gollum from "Lord of the Rings," a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, "Silence of the Lambs" killer Hannibal Lecter, and all four Teletubbies.
Guitars adorning the figures of U2's The Edge and Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott also disappeared. Others, including Elvis and Madonna, suffered lost hair, limbs or jewelry.
The museum has been shut and searching for a home since 2005, when its run-down north Dublin base was razed to make way for a hotel. Dublin city officials vetoed one popular location, citing the wax museum's lack of cultural merit.
Museum manager Kay Murray said Monday she expects to announce a new location and reopening plans next month, although she said she did not know where the money to fix all the damage would come from.
She estimated the uninsured loss at $1.4 million and said some clothing _ particularly the authentic rebel uniforms _ was irreplaceable.
The warehouse was ransacked in mid-June. Murray said she spoke out now because the national police force, the Garda Siochana, had not arrested any suspects. She said she doubted the police theory that partying youths had been responsible, because nobody had seen kids carrying away the wax figures.
"Whoever did it was looking for uniforms, because most of our uniforms were stolen," Murray said, adding, "It's not going to stop the museum reopening. It will just delay us."
Surreal, eh? For what it's worth, Kay Murray was one of the investors' mistresses. *thumbs up*
9 comments:
I think you should become a writer. You are privy to an extraordinarily high number of really weird things.
I tell her this probably every other time I talk to her, and she never does. What a slacker, right?
Liv, maybe you can help us write the libretto for "Naufragios: The Musical."
What on Earth is that?
Holy shit, Liv. It's our baroque musical comedy adaptation of The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca.
I am actually semi-serious. Just watch this turn into my senior thesis.
We need a composer, though. Offers?
Do you think they do inter-university senior theses? Because I wanna. Since we didn't do that group application, it's the least we can do.
Also, it means we're getting a huge head start. Look at us go. We're super on the ball.
For the first time in my life, I'm not procrastinating! Hooray! I can analyse it as a commercial venture in the context of whatever is going on in the economy at large when we hit Broadway.
Dom should be the composer, though, as he's far more musically-inclined than I am.
Ooh, I totally would. Except I haven't read The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca. And I keep on mispronouncing his name. But still.
Pfft, details. We can fill you in on the plot very quickly. All you need to remember is that there was a [s]gimp[/s] tiny medicine man/shaman/something or other who was awesome. End of story.
Well, shit. I used bbcode instead of html. This is why I'm not a comp sci major.
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