in $868.00 a year before its discovery. how wanted to spare no effort to get one over on his parish priest who took the bible all too literally it. was. to give it its stony fossilised look he even pierced hundreds of thousands of tiny holes into the gypsum. but unfortunately not all pranks are as harmless as that quite often someone is trying to enrich themselves with their antics. one especially audacious fraud was perpetrated by bohemian con men victor last week in 1025 he sold the eiffel tower to a scrap merchant ok the tower wasn t very popular among parisians to begin with and