OT: Famous painting ‘The Scream’ stolen from museum
 

What up with this? What can people gain from this? Selling it back to the museum for ransome?

They sell to underground art collectors. People pay big money for stuff like that.

I just read that the same painting was stolen years ago and found in a hotel. Apparently the original robbers demanded $1 million from the government, but were never paid.

Munch is... extraordinary. If I had a $1 million, I'd buy the damn thing..

That's my favorite painting:(

my question is how did they get it?

im surprised more screenwriters arent thieves...they come up with some good ways to steal stuff.

The problem is this theft wasnt very ingenius. Two guys entered with guns and took the paintings. The paintings weren't even under heavy security, they were just secured to the wall by wire, no alarms of the sort were wired to them. It was almost as easy as going to someones house and robbing them of valuables.

Am I the only one who thinks, as crimes go, this one is pretty cool? I mean, the crime is for all intents and purposes victimless (save for the poor psyche of the Norwegian people) and has cool heist-like, cinematic qualities to it (despite the rather pedestrian methods used).

Don't worry about the painting, just go to any dorm in any college in the U.S. and you're bound to see this thing on around 1/4 of the walls.

What I understand from the local newspapers it was not that high-tech or difficult. They went in the front door. Took the paintings from the wall and ran out to a waiting car. They even dropped the painting on the ground a few times on the way to the car. The police say that the have a lot of leads and that it’s done by amateurs.