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11-04-2013, 09:05 PM
"At the Kunsthal there are no security guards at night – cameras and alarms do all the work."
^^^They are fucking morons. You have hundreds of millions of dollars worth of art and yet you don't hire minimum wage security guards?
Rule #1 of Crime when stealing: have a buyer BEFORE you steal.
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11-04-2013, 09:09 PM
Next Marky Mark movie for sure.
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11-04-2013, 10:03 PM
Hard to blame these shortsighted but enterprising Romanian scumbags. 18mm Euros still buys you plenty of blonde Dutch pussy, elite North Korean Viagra, good coke, stupid fucking yachts, and whatever else gets you there.
As for those paintings... let's just say they had their long day in the shade. Nothing wrong with a good bonfire once in a while.
same old shit, sixes and sevens Shaft...
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11-04-2013, 10:18 PM
why in the world would you burn it, hide it somewhere. If it was a body i would understand but things like that could've been used as a bargaining chip at the very least.
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11-04-2013, 11:25 PM
The story here is that the mother was taking care of her son.
Any mom worthy of the name will happily burn every last artistic treasure on this earth to protect her children.
Personally, I don't feel too bad about it.
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These paintings aren't gone forever. We can create perfect replicas at will with current technology.
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11-05-2013, 02:27 AM
The two Monets they took are supremely unimpressive. Those probably should have been burned years ago.
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A painting heist gone terribly wrong
11-05-2013, 02:27 AM
Crazy gipsy mother burned our European cultural treasures!? Okey, this is the payback she should get :
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A painting heist gone terribly wrong
11-05-2013, 02:53 AM
I think all paintings are rubbish. To me a can of coke is as visually interesting as 'The Last Supper'.
So - I am not bothered about a few "masterpieces" being destroyed.
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11-05-2013, 05:11 AM
Quote: (11-05-2013 02:53 AM)cardguy Wrote:
I think all paintings are rubbish. To me a can of coke is as visually interesting as 'The Last Supper'.
lol
Ever hear of
pop art?
It's been said before, but art is one of those little things that separates us from animals.
Quote: (11-05-2013 02:53 AM)cardguy Wrote:
So - I am not bothered about a few "masterpieces" being destroyed.
Paging
Laszlo Toth...
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11-05-2013, 07:25 AM
It's like in Pusher II when Tonny steals a Ferrari without a buyer. Idiots.
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11-05-2013, 07:36 AM
Apparently this is common in art thefts (the lack of a buyer, not mom burning paintings). There only so many brokers and very rich art collectors in the world and most of them aren't going to pay millions of dollars for stolen paintings.
Most of the well known pieces of art that are stolen eventually get recovered.
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11-05-2013, 07:45 AM
Quote: (11-05-2013 05:11 AM)Prufrock Wrote:
Holy shit! Is that a flying pig over Battersea power station? How didn't I notice that in the film before?
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11-05-2013, 09:39 AM
Quote: (11-05-2013 02:53 AM)cardguy Wrote:
I think all paintings are rubbish. To me a can of coke is as visually interesting as 'The Last Supper'.
So - I am not bothered about a few "masterpieces" being destroyed.
I had a similar line of thinking until I visited Italy and stepped inside the Sistine Chapel. The raw, supreme beauty of the art inside that building almost gave me a hard-on. Really helps you appreciate the importance of aesthetics and is also a good antidote to the modern art scene of today.
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11-05-2013, 09:43 AM
This is a when GTA goes wrong moment.
Nope.