Sunday, February 26, 2006

$50 million in art stolen


Rio is a rough fucking town, especially during Mardis Gras. But this is ridiculous:

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- Taking advantage of the chaos of a Carnival parade, thieves entered an art museum and stole paintings valued at tens of millions of dollars, even stripping visitors of cell phones, digital cameras and wallets before fleeing.

As a samba band performed outside Friday, the thieves overpowered security guards at the Chacara do Ceu museum and stole Pablo Picasso's ''The Dance,'' Salvador Dali's ''The Two Balconies,'' Henri Matisse's ''Luxembourg Garden'' and Claude Monet's ''Marine."

The thieves got away with not only priceless paintings, but they picked the pockets of the patrons as well? What fucking century is this?

This shit never gets old to me. Here is a better article on Yahoo News.