By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 22:06 EST, 29 July 2013 | UPDATED: 07:46 EST, 30 July 2013 After a prank pulled by Banksy got a homeless man kicked out of his longtime home in a Los Angeles water tank, the secretive British street artist made amends by giving the man enough money to live for a full year. The trouble began after Banksy turned Tachowa Covington’s makeshift Pacific Coast Highway home into a piece of art by spray painting along the side of the bus-sized tank ‘This looks a bit like an elephant’ and it only got worse when collectors who covet the elusive artist’s work bought Covington’s squat to sell to collectors.
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Tachowa Covington lived in an water tank for seven years before Banksy used it as a joke and caught the attention of covetous art collectors
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Covington soon found himself without a home again, but the elusive artist quickly stepped in to right his wrong
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Unfortunately, other people weren’t quite as out of the loop and news quickly spread about the secretive graffiti artist’s @placeholder cameo piece.