Art theft (the gardner heist)

Art theft is the theft of art.
This is usually done for the purpose of resale or ransom; occasionally thieves are also commissioned by dedicated private collectors.
Stolen art is also ofthen used between criminals in an underworld banking system as collateral for drug and weapon deals, or to barter for those items.

The Gardner museum 1990.

The largest art theft in world history occurred in Boston on March 18, 1990 when thieves stole 13 pieces, collectively worth $ 500 million, from the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum.
A reward of $ 5 million is still offered for information leading to their return.

The pieces stolen were: Vermeer's "The Concert" which is the most valuable stolen painting in the world; two Rembrandt paintings, "The Storm on the Sea of Galilee" (his only known seascape) and "Portrait of a Lady and Gentleman in black"; a Rembrandt self portrait etching; Manet's "Chez Tortoni"; five drawings by Edgar Degas; Govaerts Flinck's "Landscape with an Obelisk"; an ancient Chinese Qu; and a finial that once stood atop a flag from Napoleon's army.

note to the thieves...

Personaly i don't care for the other goodies
(you've spend a lot of time and effort for getting them...)
but isn't it about time you returned the paintings ?!
It's been 19 years, and there's a pardon...
I'm willing to play the part of the-in-between-man for 10 % of the reward...
(so i can pay my bills and spend a couple of weeks in Tahiti...)
Just send a message to my account, and we can work things out...

waiting for your answer, Chris.

p.s. there is a hidden link in this video
p.p.s. hope you like the song

link to arthostage http://arthostage.blogspot.com/

link to FBI art theft http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/arttheft/northamerica/us/isabella/isabella.htm

link to independant lens http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/stolen/

link to secrets behind... http://www.boston.com/news/specials/gardner_heist/heist/

link to trailer of Stolen http://www.stolenthefilm.com/trailer.html

link to essential vermeer http://www.essentialvermeer.com/catalogue/concert.html

link to google news http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&ned=us&hl=en&q=stolen+vermeer

link to the band http://paulkweathermen.com/

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[violetparme]

I love the song. your video are nice and... you have got quite a good sense of humour.. or perhaps you're being serious. are you? I'll surely be back on your channel one of these days!

[meesterschilders]

well... seriously don't expect an answer from the thieves... but would be an enormous joke if they did

[bestjonbon]

Whew, I'd love to share this reward with you. Let's start hunting ...

[meesterschilders]

ok John, here's the deal: you do the hunting and i will wait for a reply from the thieves at my account... if you find some good leads we'll share 50/50 and if i receive the message you'll get 1% of my 10%... sounds fair ???

[Noremac1996]

I know exactly where two of them are

[gilcarosio]

Great video and paintings!

[donchisciotte62]

Great paintings!

[joshje777]

Oh, interessant, Chris

Nice job !!

[megansspark]

hehe... hope the advice is heeded by those sticky fingers out there :)