[HN Gopher] Stolen Picasso and Mondrian paintings found stashed ...
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Stolen Picasso and Mondrian paintings found stashed in a ravine in
Greece
Author : prismatic
Score : 101 points
Date : 2021-07-06 03:51 UTC (19 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.nytimes.com)
| Dah00n wrote:
| FYI this is a week old.
|
| https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/stolen-picasso-mondria...
| shadilay wrote:
| > The Caccia sketch was damaged during the robbery and discarded,
| the suspect told the police.
|
| The real crime.
|
| Works being stolen usually adds to their value.
| BurningFrog wrote:
| Really?
|
| That means some of these heists are staged!
| klyrs wrote:
| > He took the metro into town, changed clothes in a park next to
| the gallery and waited until the museum's 9 p.m. closing time,
| before finding a balcony with unsecured doors. When he moved a
| door and a beep sounded, he said, he reconsidered his course of
| action ... "That's when I decided that annoying the security
| guard was the best way to do the theft, by making him believe
| that there was a technical problem in the alarm zones," the
| suspect told the police. So he opened and closed the door several
| times to confuse the guards.
|
| This is a great hack, applicable to probably most human security.
| Can it apply to computer security? Well, if you've ever been
| inclined to silence an alarm you can't diagnose...
| alexpetralia wrote:
| There must be some infosec term for this, but I'd imagine it's
| close to "signal poisoning" - turning signal into noise.
| chapium wrote:
| Alarm fatigue.
| vl wrote:
| Or he is well-versed in classics - this is exactly what happens
| in "How to Steal a Million" with Audrey Hepburn and Peter
| O'Toole.
| hirundo wrote:
| I think the thief does deserve leniency. He had nothing to gain
| by turning himself in other than guilt relief, and a lot to lose.
| Much respect. Prison time still seems appropriate, but a lot less
| than otherwise.
| fumblebee wrote:
| Maybe, hopefully. But this paragraph suggests that he thought
| the police were onto him before he turned himself in.
|
| > According to the news reports, the suspect said he had moved
| the paintings there in May after reading that the police might
| be onto him.
| av3csr wrote:
| A small follow-up on that destroyed sketch by Caccia
|
| https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1163872/the-mystery-of-...
| neonate wrote:
| https://archive.is/Qx5Lz
| axiosgunnar wrote:
| Thank you
| haunter wrote:
| And they let the Picasso painting drop on the floor lol
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wfmFsNec24
| scudd wrote:
| Puts it back in the exact same position too
| happytoexplain wrote:
| It's frankly hard to imagine somebody putting _a Picasso_ in
| that position. Look at the height of the painting! Look at how
| low the wall it 's resting on is! Look at the surface it's
| sitting on! How is it that nobody there has their intuitive
| every-day-physics alarms going off??
| jbuhbjlnjbn wrote:
| Sometimes, you need to be honest even if harsh - the people
| putting a picasso painting on that space to fall off are
| incompetent fools who should never touch expensive art in the
| first place...
| heavenlyblue wrote:
| How much of your salary are you willing to sacrifice in
| order for police to be able to afford such competent
| smarts?
| subroutine wrote:
| $3.50
| chmod775 wrote:
| "Local man surprised police officer who makes $15.50 an
| hour lacks qualifications to handle $100m artwork."
|
| Who cares. It's just a piece canvas that derives its value
| from provenance, not condition.
| swader999 wrote:
| And touching it with their bare hands getting finger prints
| on the canvas.
| Nition wrote:
| What really got me is how immediately after it fell, they put
| it back exactly the same.
| axiosgunnar wrote:
| That's hilarious
| watertom wrote:
| He would have been better off framing them and hanging them on
| the wall, nobody would believe that that construction worker had
| the stolen originals on his wall. The other benefit is that he
| would have been able to enjoy the art.
| adolph wrote:
| This EconTalk podcast episode is an interview with an author of a
| book about the "Art Loss Register," a private registry for stolen
| works of art. The economic aspects of provenance and trust are
| likely interesting to folks interested in blockchain
| applications.
|
| https://www.econtalk.org/anja-shortland-on-lost-art/
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