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On my walk to the supermarket there is a block of flats and something very nice is sitting in a glassed in balcony, its about 5 stories up so I've got no chance, I left my card in their post box, but I think the note I left with it gave the game away, don't use the word 'collector', you can see the dollar signs in their greedy little eyes.
If I had the guts I'd try the remove/replace scam on a health insurer here, there must be about 60 offices countrywide all with about 15 vitra eiffel tower bases in each one. But I get nervous going into the library when I've got overdues, so its impossible.
Scam movers, not entirely funny...
I think I've mentioned before that my family has a long, long history here in the New England area. Well, when I was a teenager my two spinster great-aunts, who were both in their 90's, passed away within weeks of each other. They left to my family a ginormous victorian in South Boston that they'd lived in their entire lives. It had belonged to their grandfather, a Clipper ship captain who'd done the 'tea route' from South Asia to Boston for years. The house was jam-packed with truly priceless antiques from Asia, incredible carpets, glassware, china, and even a couple of authentic Paul Revere silver pieces, that really belonged in a museum. During the time that the family was meeting with lawyers, archivists and appraisers to determine what to do with all this incredible stuff, a moving truck came to the house and emptied it of everything valuable including some of the fixures of the house itself. The neighbors never suspected a thing as the crew was there all day long, and was very careful with the packaging. Incredibly audacious and totally theivery. Despite months of police work including some federal help from some department that does stuff like recover stolen art, nothing, not one piece, was ever recovered. We're talking big, big money that probably would have paid for college for all of the various nieces and nephews that stood to inherit.
Stealing or switching isn't really all that funny a thought...
"once when i was 5...i enjoy stealing"...jane's addiction right?
Anyway so i walk into a local community college to register my girlfriend for fall classes and POW! there they are:
eames LTRs, aluminum group chairs, contract base tables, side and armchairs, bertoia diamonds, knoll saarinen chairs and tulip table etc.
all in a super worn condition they are almost invisable. at first i wanted them all, but then after carefull scrutiny the three LTRs were the only objects i could actually live with given their poor condition. i consider stealing them for one second but instead decide to bribe the maintenance dude. i find the blue uniformed Fillapino gentleman and offer him $20. each and he begins laughing for about three minutes. he tells me he has been throwing them away for years and there might be some in the dumpster. he told me to come back in the evening and just take them as they would be thrown out soon anyway. i took them home and later thanked him and gave him $30. for a Lobster sandwich. i used to check the dumpster regularly but found the stuff too dilapidated untill one day i got a small knoll tulip table in good shape!
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Lucky you for the tulip! Yup Janes Addiction.
That is not a good story Olive, though I think the irony with these anecdotes is that as much as we consider ourselves addicts actually doing something like that is agreed to be apalling. I have to wonder about the stolen art market, to the dodgy dealers is it just another commodity? I think it would be rare to find someone who loves antiques be prepared to do this sort of thing, they just see the money.
There is something slapstick and Benny Hill like about a couple of charlatans walking out with Barcelona chairs though.
Shockingly wicked
I think I am going to rename this thread Ocean's Fourteen. Who wants to play Brad Pitt?
I'm being tongue in cheek, in case anyone mistakenly thinks I'm really appalled. I have even had the urge when I walked into my local Greyhound bus depot to pick up those two Russell Woodards I got on ebay. There was the inevitable row of orange and white knockoff Saarinen tulip shells mounted along a bar. Well, they would look so good mounted outside on the deck at Clemson, wouldn't they? Hello, they're orange! Who cares if they get wet, they're knockoffs. Anyway, couldn't quite figure out a way to sneak in with a power drill and dismantle them without the sweet old granny who runs the depot noticing.
you mean "Thou shalt not steal" and
who cares i much prefer hell to heaven anyways.
Gee! if you get to heaven you can pal with sarah palin, john hagee, jerry falwell or maybe even W. no thanks i'll pay extra or even steal for my guarenteed ticket into hell!
any other other takers?
I pre-booked years ago...
I pre-booked years ago Mario, see you there.
I'm still waiting for someone to ram raid a Knoll showroom.
Heres a link for Sarah Palin, you'd think this one would be a problem for her supporters...
Please don't look at the link if you are easily offended or have no sense of humour.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=leviticus%2020:16;&version=9;
Seinfeld and the armoire.
"We're taking the armoire and thats all there is to it, OK!"
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=mkp5wuuarOs
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paying vastly less for an object...than its true worth stealing(please dont say, I gave what was asked!!!)a quaker might say it was stealing...Olive that happens frequently people watch the death notices..are you sure a relative might not have been involved?Perhaps a distant cousin on crack,sounds like they knew the routine...
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