Theif Steals Nude Playboy Painting

[matcom]

note: MATCOM WAS NOWHERE NEAR THE SCENE OF THE CRIME

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A thief, apparently enamored with a saucy Vargas pin-up of a female nude that appeared in Playboy Magazine, stole the painting in broad daylight, officials said on Monday.

The thief walked into a gallery in the town of Larkspur, north of San Francisco, on Sunday afternoon and set his eyes on a January 1960 painting by pin-up artist Alberto Vargas. He grabbed the watercolor from an easel and then escaped even though the gallery owner chased him down the street.

Larkspur police said the painting had a value of $125,000 but was selling for $75,000 because of depressed prices in the art market.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=573&e=8&u=/nm/20031209/od_nm/crime_pinup_dc

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Should be easy to find...

...just follow the splooge trail! (I know... eeeewwww!)

[GOPisEvil]

2. Yeah, but you could have had your minions steal it for you!

:D

[matcom]

3. ssshhhhhhhhh

:D

[wtmusic]

4. Valued at $125K but selling for $75K?

I guess that puts its value at $75K (that cop must be a real estate agent on the side)

[Pale Blue Dot]

5. Betcha I could find that painting on the internet in about 30 seconds

And it's free!

A stolen painting worth about 2/3rds of it's "value"? Smells like insurance scam to me.

[Lars39]

6. And MagicRat says he was sick all weekend......

:evilgrin:

[KittyLitter8]

7. Which nude playboy was in the picture??

Ther are lots of ugly playboys :():)

[DEM FAN]

8. I Hate That When That Happens.

:-)