Thursday, May 20, 2010
Stealing Picasso
An obvious professional thief stole five paintings worth more than $100 million in a museum in Paris. Art by Picasso and Matisse were taken in an overnight heist Thursday at the Paris modern art museum because of a broken alarm system. The alarm system was reported broken for awhile and employees said they where waiting for replacement part for the system. This is crazy and i wish there was more information on this. It makes you think of the movies and men in all black tip toeing threw an all but empty museum.
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You're right. It totally made me think of a scene from the movie Entrapment! It also makes me wonder how the thieves knew that the system was waiting for a new part.
Yeah that is pretty crazy!! Wow I bet thieves consider a broken alarm system the most perfect oppurtunity to steal paintings. I wonder how long they plan for a day to come like that, or if it is just on a whim. I was watching CNN and apparently the prosecutor's office estimated the value of the works to actually be around $600 million dollars...that is a huge amount of money. What I am curious is when you have a stolen painting that valuable, who do you sell it to get the money, because the whole purpose is the money not the painting. You can't exactly buy a house with a painting.
i agree with Jodi and how she said that she wonders how the thieves knew about the downed alarm system. Without sounding like come straight out of a movie "it seems like it must have been an inside job".
I think my concern with this heist, is whether or not it was an inside job? if the employees said that the reason for waiting to fix the system was because the part had not arrived, who's to say that an employee didn't? i mean, the economy isn't doing so well and those painting are worth quite a large some.
but then again, it doesnt have to be an employee, maybe it was someone from the company who the museum used to order the part. I agree with what Rebecca said about the whole purpose of steeling a painting, it is not like you can go sell it on an open market (unless it's the black market). which leads me to think that maybe this was a hired job and a heist that was for fun?
I remember reading about this. Apparently their alarm system has been broken since what.. March or April? I think that's pretty stupid and it just makes stealing these artworks so much more easy. I really hope these paintings somehow surface. Artwork by Picasso and various other artists are so rare and rich in history. But I agree, I pretty much pictured men dressed in all black when I was reading this article.
I also pictured men in all black tip toeing around the museum and stealing stuff!!! But not really...
Anyways what I want to know is although the alarm system was broken and disarmed, didn't the museum have any cameras that could of caught any glimpse of the thief or his/her form of transportation... how can someone literally waltz into a well renowned museum and steal Picasso's artwork... it's Picasso! and drive away with it... especially if it's 5 paintings... he must of made trips back and forth, in and out of the museum... this scenario seems sketch and I agree that it could be a possible "inside job." and I agree with Alexandra that this is stupid... the workers at the museum could of easily prevented this from happening by setting up cameras everywhere or having watchmen. However, I do not agree with char. tay that this burgulary was for "fun" or that it could have been due to the economy...
It's kind of stupid how $100 million worth of paintings have a broken alarm guarding them. If something is that valuable, then the alarm should be replaced right away so that there would be no chance of this happening.
I completely agree with everyone else, and I think the pictures will be found pretty soon. I doubt that the thief/thieves plan to display these pricey paintings in their homes, so they'll probably sell them off or try to auction them off. The good thing is it's kind of hard to sell anything worth millions of dollars without word spreading
The real problem with them stealing these paintings is that there is no way they are going to be able to sell them with so much press about the robbery
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