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One of the most unusual heists in America seems to be unfolding at Taco Bell
SFGate ^ | 22 May 2024 | Ariana Bindman

Posted on 05/23/2024 10:28:25 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

The strange saga of the Taco Bell art heist.

It all began in 2015 in Westlake, Ohio, when a burglar ran off with one of his pieces and disappeared, stumping local police

Though Taco Bell purchased the originals for their corporate offices in 2003, he explained, the prints have scattered like seeds in the underground art market, where they’re now listed for sale for as much as $10,000 apiece.

Unsurprisingly, it seems like employees are in on it.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Chit/Chat; Humor
KEYWORDS: gidget
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And with each painting, you receive a XXL Grilled Stuffed Burrito.
1 posted on 05/23/2024 10:28:25 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

AND, IF YOU’RE LUCKY, your taco will actually have meat in it.


2 posted on 05/23/2024 10:30:34 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I worked for a corporation that spent a load of money on crappy art not too long before they sold at to a giant


3 posted on 05/23/2024 10:31:47 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Well Taco Bell did win the Franchise Wars.


4 posted on 05/23/2024 10:31:53 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

If you’re lucky, your taco will digest down to solid matter. If you’re not lucky, it will come out in other phases ...


5 posted on 05/23/2024 10:38:23 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NWFree

My son worked for a horribly managed company that had a whole bunch of those stupid motivational poster framed on their walls.

When they were going bankrupt just before Christmas he was one of the last employees to be let go.

We all got stupid framed motivational posters for Christmas.


6 posted on 05/23/2024 10:38:50 AM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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Toxic Shell

++++++++++++++

Only had food poisoning a few times in my life, two of them were from Taco Bell.


7 posted on 05/23/2024 10:40:47 AM PDT by sonova (No money? You're free to go.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

The artist seems to have a sense of humor about the whole thing. Naturally he isn’t making a dime of profit on the craze - in order to make money at art you have to die first - but a couple of those pieces do look pretty amusing.


8 posted on 05/23/2024 10:43:44 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

The article stretches the concept of ‘art’ rather absurdly...


9 posted on 05/23/2024 10:46:45 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: dfwgator
Well Taco Bell did win the Franchise Wars.

In the European release, it was Pizza Hut that won. They figured the Europeanizes wouldn't know what a taco was.

10 posted on 05/23/2024 10:47:22 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: IYAS9YAS

Dang autocorrect and me not reading what it corrected. Euroweenies. Not Europeanizes.


11 posted on 05/23/2024 10:48:16 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: IYAS9YAS

>>In the European release, it was Pizza Hut that won. They figured the Europeanizes wouldn’t know what a taco was.

That’s because the Europeans are all 47-year old virgins sitting around in beige pajamas, drinking banana-broccoli shakes and singing “I’m an Oscar-Meyer Wiener”.


12 posted on 05/23/2024 11:08:46 AM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: IYAS9YAS

“ In the European release, it was Pizza Hut that won.”

They’re running good deals on the app whenever you want to switch it up I get tired of the same brand


13 posted on 05/23/2024 11:11:33 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: IYAS9YAS

I was just about to order one


14 posted on 05/23/2024 11:13:04 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Billthedrill

in order to make money at art you have to die first

There are some exceptions to that rule, David Hockney comes to mind.


15 posted on 05/23/2024 11:14:31 AM PDT by Steven Scharf
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To: IYAS9YAS

Large 3 topping 10.99 carry out thank you very much indeed it’s 2 miles from my house


16 posted on 05/23/2024 11:15:18 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: IYAS9YAS

Same mother, different brother.

—”Well Taco Bell did win the Franchise Wars.
In the European release, it was Pizza Hut that won”

Taco Bell and Pizza Hut are subs of YUM! Brands.


17 posted on 05/23/2024 12:05:05 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

So is KFC


18 posted on 05/23/2024 12:50:25 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

YUM China to be exact


19 posted on 05/23/2024 12:50:54 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Steven Scharf

Yup, Andy Warhol too. But some of them I know really are “starving artists” or end up with a day gig.


20 posted on 05/23/2024 12:52:28 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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