Stolen art found behind toilet

Three paintings by Van Gogh, Picasso and Gauguin, stolen from a UK city centre gallery, have been found behind a public toilet. The pieces, worth an estimated �4m, were reported missing from the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester on Sunday.

Greater Manchester Police said an anonymous tip-off at about 0200 BST on Monday led them to the paintings.

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Damn....Its going to cost a fortune to get those repaired if they are damaged!

At least they got them back....hate to see good paintings being used as toilet paper?

yeah stolen from the whitworth where i live..

I was wondering why I was getting paint stains on my bum after being there, that loo paper sure looked pretty...

Hey least the paintings were found. What a moron too leave them in a bathroom.

stolen paintings?

who said they was stolen in the first place?

when something as valuable as those paintings are stolen, its usually on the news all over, but i didnt hear or see anything in the papers to say that done been stolen!

or is it just me?



blackwidow

It was on the news...but SARS and Iraq ensure that it was only periodic blurbs... Personally never really cared much for Van Gogh, Picasso, or Gauguin...especially Gauguin, he painted like a child, and was an artist pretty much as an excuse to lay around Tahiti and stare at naked women, and......hey! At least the guy was brilliant! Painted like a kid, but knew how to live, hehe....