Moozeum

While leading the boring life of a security guard, I got to read into the slightly less boring life of one security guard.

This guy Evans, who was on duty on May 17th 1972, was standing at the front entrance at WAM on a routine day. As it neared closing time, he saw two guys wearing black ski masks carrying bundled trash bags under their arms walking quickly towards the exit. He didn't think much of it, until he saw them walking across the floor mosaic. "Hey! You're not allowed to walk on that..." he yelled...

He tried to stop them as they walked out the door, but was shot in the process with a .22. As it turned out, the guys had stolen two Gaughin paintings, as well as a Rembrandt and a Picasso, which were later described by the museum's director as "About the most valuable and portable items in the museum's collection."

To make a long story slightly longer, the paintings were recovered later by police in ways they were not at liberty to discuss with the press.