Thrift Store Clerk Sells $5 Painting, Then Sees The Buyer On The News

Last ditch effort

But it apparently hardly ever happened in modern times. “Now we have high-tech security systems and armed trucks to transport valuable paintings from one place to another.

But back in the days on the sandy back roads, transporting art was a dangerous profession full of stagecoach robberies. So this technique was used as a last-ditch effort.”