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PULLING THE WOOL
Maximiliano Pereyra, 25, and Ariel Diaz, 28, serving time for robbery, broke out of an Argentinean maximum-security prison in La Alameda and stole sheep hides from a ranch. They then managed to evade the 300 police on their trail by dressing in the fleeces, complete with heads, and lying low among farm flocks, that can be up to 1,000 strong – despite locals seeing them running through fields at night. They were still at liberty after more than a week. Sun, 13 April; Sunday Times, 18 April 2010.

STATUE PANIC
Antony Gormley’s 2007 art installation, Event Horizon, featuring 31 life-size statues strategically placed on buildings, was transferred to Manhattan in late March.