Thieves have taken off with the ten metre high Big Mango from a fruit-growing town in northern Queensland, Australia. The giant, bright orange replica of the famous Bowen mango is one of Australia's iconic tourist attractions, and was the pride of Bowen, before a team of robbers took off with it under the cover of darkness in the early hours of Monday. Security cameras appear to have captured the heist, in which the three-story painted metal mango was unbolted from the concrete platform on which it had stood since 2002, rolled on to a heavy vehicle and driven off down Queensland's Bruce Highway.
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Giant Australian tourist attraction stolen in the dead of night
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Daring 2am heist of ten tonne bright orange recorded on security TV
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Thieves unbolted mango and prised it from concrete platform
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Tyre marks on highway suggesting getaway vehicle is crane
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Big Mango may be on the large, unmarked crane heading south
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Three storey-high fruit is icon in Australian mango-growing capital
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Police puzzled as no theft has been reported by Big Mango owners
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Security footage shows an apparently masked thief on the premises near the @placeholder moving towards a large, unmarked crane, which Bowen police now believe may be the getaway vehicle