Don't let Neal know....

... Or he'll have a heart attack.

Stolen Picasso Among Paintings ‘Burned’ in a Romanian Stove

"According to her statement to the police, Olga Dogaru said that she was worried for her son after his arrest earlier this year, and decided to move the artworks around her village in Caracliu, burying them in a cemetery. In a bid to get rid of the evidence, she decided to burn the entire package containing the seven paintings in a stove used to heat saunas.

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According to Alice Farren-Bradley, the recoveries case manager at the Art Loss Register, the world’s largest private database of lost and stolen art, it is not unusual for artworks to be destroyed or damaged during thefts. “It’s not how it looks in Hollywood films, where thieves pop canvases out of frames and make it look easy. It’s very complicated, you have to know what you are doing.”

Farren-Bradley also says that it is often the case that, compared to the execution of the theft, thieves put little thought into how they can liquidate their stolen assets. “You get a lot of cases where people panic, and that is when they attempt to hide the items by burying them or storing them." "

And according to the article, this is not the only case of a mother destroying "evidence" for her beloved son.... And now I can see the story of how Neal's first high profile theft went wrong when his mother destroyed the precious painting.... ;-)

And I also love this last bits, that could totally be written in White Collar (though more Neal than Peter I think...), for the FBI, art theft is like stealking History.


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Today on Tim DeKay TV: Party of Five, season Five !

You've all been eagerly waiting for it... Here it comes !! The following of Dr. Paul Thomas's adventures in Party of Five, season 5 !
Whether it's the lab coat, or the shirtless reading.... There's no way to resist his charms. It doesn't matter that he doesn't want kids. Who needs kids anyway, with such a sweetheart in her life ?
It just occured to me that Tim and George played pediatricians at the same time, and they looked just as lovely in their labcoats.... Now I'm dreaming of a ER crossover... A pediatrics conference or something....

If you missed Tim in Season Four, it's here.

PS: I've been meaning to do this video for a while, but with the heat wave, I didn't feel like making my computer heat too much... More for myself, than the laptop...