How to find a stolen Van Gogh

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)

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Yeah, uhh. . . that doesn’t really narrow it down even a tiny bit.

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Probably best if you just Gogh…

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How to find a stolen Van Gogh

  1. Steal a Van Gogh
  2. Take a peek at where you have it stashed
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“Worst roommate ever!”
-Paul Gauguin

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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.

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Is it worth a lot of Monet?

Thank you and goodnight.

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:wink:

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Are you saying all the Goa’uld ones are gone? :flushed:

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Manet!
It’s a crime.
Share it fairly, but don’t take a slice of my pie.

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Stolen Van Don’t Gogh

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That was my first thought.

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Since we’re doing van jokes now:
Jean-Claude Van Man

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one might generalize this to “… no meaningful data about the crimes of wealthy people”

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Or a storage locker in Basel.

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The few left are not exactly comedy Goa’uld.

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Well, you can’t just sho’va pun anywhere!

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It’s worked for me up to now. Shol’va, so good. :crossed_fingers:

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.

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