Score one for the bad guys

[anam_moon]

From Yahoo News:
Armed robbers have stolen art worth $100 million, including works by Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh, from a Zurich museum, police said Monday.

The Zurich police said the robbery took place Sunday. Also among the works stolen were oil paintings by Paul Cezanne and Edgar Degas.

Police called the heist a "spectacular art robbery," but did not identify the museum, saying only that it is in the city's eighth district.

Last week, Swiss police reported that two Pablo Picasso paintings were stolen from a Swiss exhibition near Zurich. The two oil paintings, "Tete de cheval" ("Head of horse") and "Verre et pichet" ("Glass and pitcher"), were on loan from the Sprengel Museum in Hannover, Germany.

Frigg! Works by Monet, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Degas?! *sob*
Great, a spectacular art robbery. I don't want to hear that. How about a spectacular security system that stopped the attempted art robbers in their tracks. Those poor paintings are out there with who knows what sort of riff-raff right now. Wah!!!

Comments

They Deserve to have them stolen

[(Anonymous)]

If the art is so valuable, why then do they have such piss poor security protecting them? If money is an issue with installing a proper security measures, they should sell some of there art collection to protect the rest. Something so valuables should have more protection then a couple minimum wage security guards at the front door.

Re: They Deserve to have them stolen

[racerxmachina.livejournal.com]

Put on an LJ-name and say that, son.

Also, as you said, minimum wage security guards? Nope, not in the places where these were kept. But the robbers were armed, so people's lives were at risk, both security guards and people attending the museum. The POINT of a museum is to have works on display so that everyone can see them, not to sell them off to the highest bidder so as to protect one or two plum pieces. As it is, the cops should probably wait a month and start checking the houses of Russian mob bosses and their mistresses.

Re: They Deserve to have them stolen

[anam-moon.livejournal.com]

Just because the security was bad does not mean that the rest of the world deserves to have our artistic heritage stolen and sold off on the black market.