A 14-year-old schoolboy has claimed he met Banksy on a train.
Ben Azarya says the iconic and elusive artist signed a print of one of his works and said, "This will be worth about £20,000 - have a good life."
"He was on the phone for most of the time talking to someone called AK47. He opened his rucksack and had a gas mask and spray paints inside," Ben told British media.
"He got out a piece of paper and had colours marked on it of what he had been trying out and he dropped his colours. I picked them up for him and after that he started signing it in weird letters and numbers."
He described the shrouded shader as "white, in his late 40s. He was wearing scruffy clothes and he had a black, fluffy hat which looked really old. He had a little jacket that didn't go over his arms and jeans with paint on. He looked really wacky and had blond hair and blue eyes."
Ben had no idea who Banksy even was until he got home and looked him up on the internet.
If genuine, Ben plans to sell the artwork.
"I will probably spend about £1,000 and get a new phone and save the rest."
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source: newshub archive
