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Danish Artist Steals Money from Local Museum, Runs Away

The Copenhagen district of Nyhavn. (Getty Images)
The Copenhagen district of Nyhavn. (Getty Images)
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Danish Artist Steals Money from Local Museum, Runs Away

The Copenhagen district of Nyhavn. (Getty Images)
The Copenhagen district of Nyhavn. (Getty Images)

A Danish artist has pocketed 534,000 kroner ($84,000) in cash that he received from a museum to incorporate into an artwork and changed the name of the installation to "Take the Money and Run."

Jens Haaning had agreed with Kunsten museum, in northern Denmark, that he would borrow the money to replicate earlier work, Bloomberg reported.

But when the museum in Aalborg opened the box that Haaning had shipped, the cash was missing from the two glass frames and the artwork's title had been changed, according to the German News Agency (dpa).

"The work of art is that I took their money," Haaning told broadcaster DR.

Kunsten wants Haaning to return the cash, but he's declining. The museum is now considering whether to report Haaning to the police if he hasn't returned the cash by the time the exhibition ends in January.

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"These will be uncrewed to test the reliability of landing intact on Mars," Musk said, adding if those landings go well, his space company will launch its first crewed flights to Mars in four years, Reuters reported.

"Flight rate will grow exponentially from there, with the goal of building a self-sustaining city in about 20 years," the billionaire said.

In April, Musk, who founded SpaceX in 2002, said the first uncrewed starship to land on Mars would be within five years, with the first people landing on Mars within seven years.

In June, a Starship rocket survived a fiery, hypersonic return from space and achieved a breakthrough landing demonstration in the Indian Ocean, completing a full test mission around the globe on the rocket's fourth try.

Musk is counting on Starship to fulfill his goal of producing a large, multipurpose next-generation spacecraft capable of sending people and cargo to the moon later this decade, and ultimately flying to Mars.