> Durham’s exasperation is not that of some couch potato who has seen one too many crime shows. He’s a thief who 18 years ago stole not one but two van Gogh pai

> Durham’s exasperation is not that of some couch potato who has seen one too many crime shows. He’s a thief who 18 years ago stole not one but two van Gogh paintings from Amsterdam’s famous Van Gogh Museum. Then a few paragraphs later talks about how he also committed his crime with a sledgehammer and no forethought: > “I just did it because I saw the opportunity,” Durham said. He noticed a window at the museum that he thought would be easy to smash. “I didn’t have a buyer before I did it,” he said. “I just thought I can either sell them, or if I have a problem I can negotiate with the paintings.” See other comments in this thread for a single-sentence distillation of the only really useful information from the article.