It’s amazing the things that people will do out of silliness. When an animal reserve in South Africa was broken into, the owners expected money to be stolen or endangered animals to be taken away. Instead, they found that the burglar had stolen the horn of a rhino. Turns out, joke’s on the burglar, because the rhino was just a commemorative statue of the first ever rhino brought to the reserve, and the horn was made out of fiberglass.
Chances are, you’ve heard that poachers are often after elephants and rhinos because their tusks and horns can be sold for a lot on the (illegal) art market and to African witch doctors. The owners of the reserve had made sure to have all their rhinos’ horns removed so that poachers would not be tempted to attack them.
No one is quite sure what made the mystery robber steal a fake horn. Though, looking at the photo of the statue, it is quite hard to guess that it isn’t real. Still though, you’d think it be obvious once it didn’t start breathing or trying to stomp the thief into a pulp.
Regardless, we’re glad to hear that none of the real animals have been harmed and that the robber has gone through all that trouble only to become the laughing stock of South Africa!