Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/04/10/how-to-find-a-stolen-van-gogh.html
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Ears to the ground, people!
(Oops: sorry Vincent)
Yeah, uhh. . . that doesn’t really narrow it down even a tiny bit.
Probably best if you just Gogh…
How to find a stolen Van Gogh
- Steal a Van Gogh
- Take a peek at where you have it stashed
“Worst roommate ever!”
-Paul Gauguin
Fortunately, that intersection is vanishingly small…
Van Gogh’s “The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring 1884.", coming soon to a yacht parked off of a major American city.
Is it worth a lot of Monet?
Thank you and goodnight.
Are you saying all the Goa’uld ones are gone?
Manet!
It’s a crime.
Share it fairly, but don’t take a slice of my pie.
That was my first thought.
Since we’re doing van jokes now:
one might generalize this to “… no meaningful data about the crimes of wealthy people”
Or a storage locker in Basel.
The few left are not exactly comedy Goa’uld.
Well, you can’t just sho’va pun anywhere!
It’s worked for me up to now. Shol’va, so good.
Are there not tiny threadlike nano-tracker type things that can be embedded in the backs of canvases? If millions of dollars are at stake, wouldn’t insurance companies use technology to help find these things?
Related - the more recent Thomas crown affair with pierce brosnan and Rene Russo is such a great movie.