{"id":280909,"date":"2018-10-14T11:33:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T11:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/10\/14\/geektwerp-warmpockets-warmpockets-im\/"},"modified":"2018-10-14T11:33:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T11:33:44","slug":"geektwerp-warmpockets-warmpockets-im","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/10\/14\/geektwerp-warmpockets-warmpockets-im\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

geektwerp<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

warmpockets<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

warmpockets<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

i\u2019m watching an art theft documentary and they\u2019re interviewing this art history professor from new york who was asked to go with the fbi to authenticate a rubens that had been stolen but it was a sting operation so they had to pretend like they weren\u2019t the fbi, that they were some private buyer about to pay $3.5 million for it, and the fbi was like\u00a0\u201cthis is a VERY delicate operation because you never know how they will react to what you have to say so let the agent do all of the talking, don\u2019t say a word to anyone just nod if it\u2019s the rubens, the last operation we did the guy in your position got shot because things went wrong in a second\u201d and then it cuts to the professor\u2019s interview and he says\u00a0\u201ci wasn\u2019t going to fly down to miami to be a part of an undercover fbi sting operation to handle what could be rubens\u2019s aurora and just NOT say anything. i was gonna have to ad lib a little\u201d and then he tells the interviewer that when he & the fbi agent got to the hotel while he was examining the painting he started lecturing the other people, first on how badly they had wrapped it, and then about like how it had been painted, the history of it, what the subject was and what she was doing, etc etc, and he was like\u00a0\u201ci hadn\u2019t taught a class on rubens in 15 years, so for me it was like being back in the classroom except my students couldn\u2019t leave\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

at one point during the deal the professor turned to the woman selling it and he said\u00a0\u201cisn\u2019t this just the most beautiful rubens you\u2019ve ever seen outside of a museum?\u201d (because the fbi had told him earlier that this piece had been stolen from a museum) and THEN he said\u00a0\u201cwhere on earth did you get it from?\u201d and the group of people the woman had with her was like taxidermy-fox.png but the woman was like\u00a0\u201cinheritance\u201d can you IMAGINE the fbi agent about to have a fucking aneurysm when this random guy you\u2019ve brought in just to nod if it\u2019s the right painting not only starts giving an impromptu lecture but then he asks how they got it<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For those interested, this is from a mid-2000s docu series called Art of the Heist<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the link to the episode OP described<\/a><\/p>\n

And yes, the professor is easily the best part<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

geektwerp: warmpockets: warmpockets: i\u2019m watching an art theft documentary and they\u2019re interviewing this art history professor from new york who was asked to go with the fbi to authenticate a rubens that had been stolen but it was a sting operation so they had to pretend like they weren\u2019t the fbi, that they were some … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[109,955,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}