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Look quick, before they pull it:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...tem=3743885728
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It's already made 20 hours.....
"one of the most sought after items in the world" - indeed.
Cheers, Kevin
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,129678,00.html
One of the versions was stolen from a museum in Oslo a couple of days ago. Not that I believe the one on eBay is the same one.
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Did you look at the eBay one, Meya?
It shows a masked man with a rifle holding the picture.
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Well color me embarrassed. I didn't even look at the auction, just read the subject line. I do that way too often.
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Not up any longer. We'll have to start saving those jpgs for future use dang it...
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Vinyl,
The link is already invalid, but sounded funny as anything.
But that robbery was really something--and why? They obviously cannot sell the paintings via Ebay or an Auction House--everybody knows they're hot. Even if they were able to find some weird reclusive art dealer, how much would he pay for paintings that he could never display? Hardly worth committing a brazen daylight gun brandishing robbery.
I suppose that they could demand money from somebody for their return, but the last guys who tried that got way busted. And honestly, what would be the chances of pulling that off; you know that Sweden has called in every expert in art theft, say, Scotland Yard and the FBI.
It's pretty unbelievable that it even happened. My DH was a senior security guard at a major museum in your city, Vinyl, and there's no way anybody could pull off such a stunt there, for many reasons.
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Ransom.
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Targeted robbery arranged with private buyer in advance?
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"Targeted robbery arranged with private buyer in advance?"
Well, that's the only semi-plausible explanation, but it still doesn't make sense.
So, a Dr. Strangelovianesque rich guy commissions a couple of thieves to strike at a museum in Sweden and steal two of the artist's and the museum's most famous works? They are gonna make a successful gettaway and deliver the paintings to the recluse guy who is gonna wring his hands with delight at his ill-gotten paintings, generally recognized as depicting the frail modern human predicament? Recluse guy dies eventually after keeping the secret, and his unwitting heirs offer it for sale? Then it is reclaimed as stolen property; nobody gets anything, but the paintings are undoubtedly returned to the museum and guarded more. What's the point?
Sounds more like a movie, to me. Still does not make sense. Too much Aquavit in the harsh August Swedish sun?