News South Wales police have charged a adult male who allegedly broke into the Australian Museum and spend 40 minutes strolling around taking selfies with the exhibits .
Over the weekend , the police unloose CCTV footage ( now withdrawn ) and put out a call for anyone who recognized the intruder to report his personal identity . The man stole a cowboy lid from a museum pelage rack and take a picture from the walls . approximate by the social media reply , however , there was more ebullience for bribe him a beer in the new reopened pub than reporting him to authorities .
Although some people saw something particularly Australian in the footage of the mankind taking selfies near the mouthparts of therapods , the person institutionalize is Paul Kuhn , a German citizen studying at an Australian University . Kuhn turned himself in to a local police station .
Australia ’s oldest museum has been closed to the public for the last nine month to allow amajor overhaul . Some public programs continued initially , but have been shut down by pandemic restrictions . It ’s potential the intruder matte he could n’t wait any longer for a view of theMegaladon tooth , meteorites , andgastric - brooding frogsthe museum has to offer . A more likely explanation , however , is that he took advantage of the staging that ’s facilitating the reconstruction to get in through a unremarkably inaccessible path .
Cameras show Kuhn attempting to enter many locked elbow room . At this degree , the possibility he was look for something specific to steal ca n’t be entirely rule out . However , the fact that he actually rang a doorbell for one of these rooms and also die up the opportunity to make off with some of the museum ’s invaluable items suggests his intentions were more benign , a view indorse up by his being cede bond . The note value or nature of the stolen picture has not been account , but the cowboy lid look to belong to a stave member rather than being of historical significance .
The full video is unhappily no longer uncommitted , but some outlets made copy of highlights .
Nevertheless , the museum – which blow millions of artifacts , some of immense scientific time value – is presumptively conducting a thorough revue of its protection subroutine , and is not bank on the deterrent effect ofNight at The Museum .
Anyone whose hunger for a museum visit has been wake up by the news will have to await an estimated six months for reopening , but there are safe and legal alternatives in the museum’sextensive online collection .
The break - in happened a week ago , around 1 am on Sunday morning , but the constabulary took almost a week to set the footage on theirFacebook varlet .
