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RALEIGH -- Joseph Carnevale didn't have a grandiose point when he chopped up traffic barrels and turned them into a hitchhiking roadside monster, but the North Carolina State University student has become a celebrity since city police arrested him.

He has hundreds of followers on Facebook and numerous hits on his personal Web site. Even the construction company he stole from wants a replica of the "barrel monster."

Carnevale took three traffic barrels from roadside construction
near the N.C. State campus on May 31. He reassembled it into a
hitchhiking, 10-foot figure looking toward passing vehicles.

Raleigh police arrested Carnevale on June 10, charging him with
larceny and destruction of property. He's scheduled to appear in court next month.

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