PWNED: Armed robbers steal 'The Scream'

[digitalsm]

Originally posted by: trmiv

Originally posted by: Ornery
"The Scream" was stolen 10 years ago, from Oslo's National Art Museum..."


These museums in Norway take a while to catch on, eh?

As someone said there a different versions of "The Scream" is Edvards "self portrait". He did it in various styles. I believe the one stolen in 1994 was the slightly lesser valued black and white version while the one stolen yesterday was the full color version worth $65million.

From what I saw from photos of the hiest, the paintings were still in their frames when the theifs loaded them into their car.

 

[mobobuff]

Originally posted by: sygyzy
I never understood the point of stealing such famous art. Say you were a billionaire and could afford to hire thieves to steal the Mona Lisa for you. What would you do with it after you had it? Would you display it at your home? Everytime someone comes over, from your kid's prom date to the UPS delivery guy, they'll see it. One day someone will talk and you'll be sent away for a long time.

The other alternative is to hide it in a secret room or basement. Then what would you do? You couldn't tell anyone about it. You'd have to sneak downstairs, rub your hands and give off a sinister laugh. Lame.

Yeah, I never understood that either. In fact, I think when the Mona Lisa was stollen all it did was sit in the bottom of a trunk somewhere.

But by the sounds of it, stealing a painting appears to be much easier than robbing a bank.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: sygyzy
The other alternative is to hide it in a secret room or basement. Then what would you do? You couldn't tell anyone about it. You'd have to sneak downstairs, rub your hands and give off a sinister laugh. Lame.

Don't rich people do that anyways?

 

[digitalsm]

Originally posted by: mobobuff

Originally posted by: sygyzy
I never understood the point of stealing such famous art. Say you were a billionaire and could afford to hire thieves to steal the Mona Lisa for you. What would you do with it after you had it? Would you display it at your home? Everytime someone comes over, from your kid's prom date to the UPS delivery guy, they'll see it. One day someone will talk and you'll be sent away for a long time.

The other alternative is to hide it in a secret room or basement. Then what would you do? You couldn't tell anyone about it. You'd have to sneak downstairs, rub your hands and give off a sinister laugh. Lame.

Yeah, I never understood that either. In fact, I think when the Mona Lisa was stollen all it did was sit in the bottom of a trunk somewhere.

But by the sounds of it, stealing a painting appears to be much easier than robbing a bank.

Actually is was stuck inbetween a matress for two months. Apparently stealing paintings in Norway is easy. They apparently dont have much security other than security guards.

 

[LeStEr]

Originally posted by: Jigga
Kudos to the first person to photochop 'The Scream' and put a ski mask on the guy!!!

While your at it label it pwned.

 

[godmare]

Originally posted by: EvilYoda
I'm sure there are some great books on the history of famous paintings that never emerged to the public eye and whatnot...stuff getting stolen, copied, burned, lost...

As for this situation...you would think that they'd have a little planning in place incase another theft was attempted.

Picasso used to keep warm by burning his paintings. Makes you wonder how much was really lost.

 

[Sid59]

that madonna is awesome.

 

[digitalsm]

Originally posted by: godmare

Originally posted by: EvilYoda
I'm sure there are some great books on the history of famous paintings that never emerged to the public eye and whatnot...stuff getting stolen, copied, burned, lost...

As for this situation...you would think that they'd have a little planning in place incase another theft was attempted.

Picasso used to keep warm by burning his paintings. Makes you wonder how much was really lost.

Then there was the mother of an art theif who burned many painting her son stole.