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February 21, 2008 |
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Nude Girl Painting $450
FOUND by Arp
in Arizona
Found the list in my apartment's parking lot. I'm not sure exactly what this is. An inventory of stolen/missing items, I guess? I really like the mix of personal, artwork, and random items included. And that while the sewing machine is underlined twice, the methadone is not.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Why would anyone steal used shirts/shoes? They must have been pretty awesome.
My mother lived with a guy in the eighties, who was arrested for stealing ham and bologna out of someone's fridge, along with koolaid packages, and sheets and blankets, and jewelry. The cops came to our house and arrested him on Halloween. It was bazaar to see him get arrested, because he was dressed as a werewolf. I'd never seen a werewolf in cuffs.
The sewing machine had a significant place in this person's life. Pills, nude girl painting, and their slip on vans can't reach that importance. Maybe it is a house wife who wants half of her husbands things in a divorce settlement. She makes all of her own clothes and he is an artist, or into art?, and... scratch all that, it may be a shopping list. Maybe ebay? She needs new shoes because hers are missing and her sewing machine broke suddenly. While she's there there are many paintings... maybe under the double lines are things she wants to sell? I am thinking so far into this. The end.
i'm saying it's a list of damaged things, from a fire or sumthin?
cause there's prices listed
the word missing is used...
anyway my wife was an art student and this reads pretty similar to something she'd write, except the vans... she hates those slip on thingies
The extra 'c' is why that Piccasso is only worth $55.
Break up list? you owe me...
I like the way the listmaker has drawn a tiny envelope & put his stolen email at the top of the list.
Also I note that the last item on the list is "Find Of The Day"; I wish the listmaker had been more specific about this item.
paints canvas.. box of personal info.. bank statements.. tax information.. boxes in garage..
That's all I can make out on the back. I think this is a person trying to remember all the stuff they had after a robbery. When our house was robbed, they took about 7 of my husband's favorite shirts out of the closet, in addition to the pillow cases from the bed, which they presumably filled with anything that looked like a jewelry box from our bedroom. We lived near the California Men's Colony at the time, and figured it was a recently released convict who needed civilian clothing and some fast cash from a pawn shop. All he got were a few pieces of costume jewelry, sentimental items, of no value to anyone but me.
Art question! :)
This find cracks me up and so does Julse ! LOL !
It seems like an inventory of things-reminds me of a list of things to take when moving...but why would prices be after two paintings I wonder. Hmmm. Good find.
I live in such a clean area that I never get to find anything-no papers laying around by dumpsters or anything.
Obviously this stuff has been taken without permission--but is it a list for the police, or just personal use? I mean, does one *want* to tell the police "hey, my methadone is missing"? Right down to how much and how many mg? Or is the writer just keeping score for a personal vendetta against the person who "liberated" their stuff?
Some of it obviously can be sold/pawned for cash...but the "2 down blankets, body pillow" and "more than 7" shirts, and shoes sound like someone made off with other stuff they needed. I can see someone taking the blankets and pillow so they can go on the lam...but the sewing machine would have to be sold, surely.
Whee! Non math question!
Nobody would have stolen all that art work and so little electronic gear.
It's a list of things she hopes to SELL to make some money in order to take that trip out east and hike the Appalachian Trail.
The sewing machine was so she could make her own tent and sleeping bag for the hike. And now she really wants to get rid of it (those make-it-yourself projects always sound so much simpler than they are). Good luck on the Trail! Hiking dawn to dusk will clean out your system more than methadone.
Sewing machine is written in a different handwriting, looks female. She wanted the list to include her grandmother's sewing machine which had sentimental value to her (thus the underline twice) and not just the missing meth. Dude then just realized there was more stuff missing and continued on with his list of vanished art.
Looks like the list is continued on the back. Could be for insurance purposes after a robbery. Or someone moved out and stole his stuff. My husband had some slip-on vans missing too, but that was only because I threw them in the trash, along with more than 7 of his shirts.
It's a weird list where Picasso goes for $55 while Matt's "blue period" is priced at $700!
Plus dude was squirreling away 4 bottles of 60 mg methadone pills and 86 more paintings in the garage and some missing shirts and Vans?
Seems like a list of the delusional to me.
Maybe the sewing machine was underlined because it's just so bizarre that a sewing machine could be stolen.
Farmer, you're funny. You make me laugh aloud. My kinda humor....
Les Picasso is Pablo's cousin. His artwork is crap.
My ex ended up with a similar list after he allowed a particularly unsavory friend of his to move in. Only instead of a sewing machine, art work, methadone, and Vans, he was missing an accordion, CDs, three pairs of steel-toed work boots, a rabbit, and some insulin needles.
What really gets me, here, is, METHADONE. It's a controlled Narcotic. If found in a schoolyard, on a bus, on a subway, or stolen from some poor 'junkie' who's trying to get his/her life back on track from all the years of using Heroin/Opiates, is that if someone swallows this stuff, it CAN kill, and it WILL!
I've seen it happen with my own eyes. It's not a pretty thing for the relatives and friends to have to go through.
On the other hand, this person who has been taking METHADONE for a number of years and has a tolerance to it, 'Maintenance Program' it will keep them from being REALLY sick.
I'm thinking this person was robbed and had to make out a Police Report for the Insurance Co. The Police should of been notified RIGHT AWAY of the missing METHADONE, though.
Writer, it's a Les Piccasso, not Pablo.
Great. Another junkie on the loose with narcotics. I've always had a theory with drugs... If you really want to fight a war on drugs, you should target the people who use them. Allow everyone free access (telling them that if they use the drug it is illegal), then arrest everyone who ends up taking it. Pretty soon everyone would be in jail where its a lot harder to get drugs, problem solved.
You're so stupid. There are too many faults with your "idea" to put into writing.
Kira.
Point #1 Drugs are not difficult to get in jail.
Point #2 You've got a simplified view of the world.
I think this list was made because when the roomie moved out he took the listmakers things with him..after making the list he began listing the values so the deadbeat could pay him for the items stolen and unfortunately dropped the list while trying to find out the street value of 4 bottles of 60 mg. Methodone.
Yes, Les Piccasso is the relatively (no pun intended) unknown cousin of Pablo Picasso. When Uncle Bob and Aunt Marge relocated their family to Hoboken they Americanized their name by adding the second 'c'.
A friend of mine recently went outside and discovered his car had been broken into. (We live in North Philly, so no one was very surprised.) Whoever did the breaking stole his CD player, but none of the CDs: The rest of us are claiming that as proof of his horrible taste in music.
Methadone can be replaced, but the memories associated with that sewing machine... *sigh*
"A in here": Hahahahaahaha.
"Mona Lisa" etc: I'm sure Kira was kidding.
I imagine Les Piccasso to be similar to Gene Wilder's character in "Young Frankenstein”:
"I am not a Picasso. I'm a Pic-casso. Don't give me that. I don't believe in fate. And I won't say it... All right, you win. You win. I give. I'll say it. I'll say it. I'll say it. DESTINY! DESTINY! NO ESCAPING THAT FOR ME! DESTINY! DESTINY! NO ESCAPING THAT FOR ME!"
And with a sigh, he picks up his brushes.
I don't know about you guys but personally, even though it isn't an all together good idea I'm glad to see Kira is thinking about a solution to the problem.
I'm not sure how, but the Rare Birds must be involved somehow.
"...these are a few of my favorite things."
yes, skeered, Kira is the only one looking for a solution to the problem. She has her head in the sand if she thinks that's a real solution to drug use. H in A, i don't think she's kidding. (although sincerity/sarcasm is hard to read, in print)
We could always just shoot people... Whats a war without bombs and lots of cool explosions?
My husband's car was stolen this morning. He's working out of town and this morning he went to warm his car up and left it running while he went back into the hotel. He came out a few minutes later and it was gone. I'm thinking in lists wondering what all he lost. What a huge pain in the ass.
The list writer went into court mandated, in-patient rehab. While the tenant was "away" the landlady considered the residence "abandoned", and therefore packed up all the resident's belongings into storage.
When the list writer got out of rehab, paid up her arrears, and gained access to the shit in storage, these are the items found to be missing. the landlady stole this stuff and sold it on E-Bay. Except for the Les. Piccasso. She's expecgting that to build value. And the body pillows. She always wanted a couple of those.
Kira, how in the HELL would all the drug using criminals be housed? There's not enough jail space for all the illicit drug users. Not to mention the $$ needed to feed them. Not nearly. Cute idea, though.
Once upon a time, I was out with friends at United Roller Skates of America. Someone stole my brand new K. Swiss Kicks right out of my locker. It was a tragedy. Just glad I didn't have my methadone or sewing machine in there too.
I sure hope Kira was kidding. Because that plan she speaks of is kind of already in place. People can get drugs freely and (if they get caught) people are arrested.
I seem to recall reading quite a few totally inane post by Kira in recent weeks (or days). My solution to the "drug problem" in America is to legalize ALL drugs. This will allow the FDA to regulate the potency and purity of each in order to reduce the number of overdose deaths. (The only reason this might work is that we're talking about well-established drugs, not some new shit that requires FDA approval before hitting the shelves. If that were the case, the deaths would likely increase.)
Obviously, I don't have a ton of faith in the FDA's dilligence or priorities. However, I would bet that they could pull off a passable degree of competence if they would just apply themselves a little more. But for some reason (most likely political pressure from the deep-pocketed [and thus highly influential] pharmaceuticals manufacturers), they regularly approve the sale of drugs that cause far more health problems than they prevent or abate, or that just cause good old fashioned death.
Maybe if we could sway the FDA away from sitting around all day pondering boner pills, they could actually contribute something worthwhile to society (and humanity in general).
Once crack, smack etc. are legal, the government could then tax the shit out of them to cover the cost of treatment for people who are truly determined to quit (or just get a warm place to stay for a few days).
Yes, I realize that these are very Utopian and not 100% original ideas, but that's my take on it.
P.S. I really like parentheses today.
ohhh. Nightingale.. that's a piss off, isn't it? I hate it when bad things happen to nice people like yourself.
Methadone is indeed a Class 2 narcotic, and it would be hard to get so much of it without thinking that the owner had been hoarding them, probably trying to do without.
Of course they are best known as the substitute given with treating heroin addiction, but that is NOT the only use. In some cases, it is prescribed for treatment of chronic and severe pain. One of my friends has a degenerative condition in the discs of her spine, which has permanently disabled her. She was on quite the cocktail of pain pills and muscle relaxants, with limited effectiveness, until she saw a pain specialist last year. He looked at her condition and what she was taken, and declared it all wrong. He's got her on methadone now and it's like night and day. She's up on her feet, able to get around much better, is alert and much better able to participate in society on methadone than she was on more conventional pain medication.
As for methadone's harmful effects - any drug, even an over-the-counter one, can maim or kill you if abused. The difference here is in how addictive it is. That's why drugs like these should be controlled, with medical professionals supervising their application. Perfect? No, there will never be a perfect system.
that sucks nightingale... it could be worse... the list of items lost could look like this beauty of a list... bad things happen to good people all the time. its called karma.
my karma ran over your dogma.
Flargy, yes, I realize that these are very Utopian and not 100% original ideas, but that's my take on it. I get where you are coming from, however, I feel drug abuse would go up because the "illegal stigma" would be gone. It's like Christianity; some people need the fear of hell to behave. Having had family members touched by drug abuse (directly and indirectly) in my lifetime I don't think that is the answer. In fact studies have shown abuse goes up in countries where drugs are legal.
like to see what Judge Judy would have to say about these missing items.
Nightingale, sorry for you matieral lose, it really is a pain in the ass, but couldn't you go to your friends myspace to advertise this? I sure alot of these guy don't really care and there is a much better venue for that called ..well Myspace a social networking place.
like that this person underlined the sewing machine. I'd be broken if I lost mine, as would my daughters who love their dresses and skirts I make them... interesting find.
and pepper in the shaker- you're an ass
UtahChick can give us all her personal info if she wants. Congrats again.
nightingale, that does really suck. but it happens so often during cold weather when people leave their car running, unattended. kinda like the poor women who have their purses stolen out of thier unlocked car. common sense people!
Sure will, Pepper in your shaker. Sorry to have bothered you. I was just "thinking in lists" and this Find made me think of that. I wouldn't have mentioned it here otherwise.
pepperisadickhead.com
check it out.
In Forest Park, Georgia, it is ILLEGAL to leave your car running if you aren't in it. The police issue many tickets for it. They say the practice of warming up the car, even if it's locked, is too much of an easy target for theft so they now blame the car owners for the car being stolen.
IMHO:
It really doesn't matter if the drug is legal or illegal. Either way, addicts will still look for a chemical escape, risking life and limb if necessary to obtain it.
I doubt legalization would assure any safety as far as potency or purity goes - there'll always be a Black Market that will be able supply more cheaply anything over the government "limits".
While it may temporarily reduce street crime related to drugs, it wouldn't make a permanent dent in crime. Millions of dollars are being made and no one is just gonna give up that kind of profit.
I personally do not believe the government should have any sort of say on how I prefer to die, preferably ODing on methadone while staring at shitty art.
My work is blocking me from viewing pepperisadickhead.com !!
So do you think nude girl painting refers to a painting of a nude girl or perhaps this started out as a wish list? I also enjoy nude girls painting!
There have been a rash of art thefts around here: I work as a model at a local art school, and recently one of the students told me a drawing he had done (of me) was swiped from his locker. (It's one of those uncomfortable moments where you think "hmmm... somewhere a complete stranger has a stolen likeness of my nude self. How odd.")
Someone also made off with some things from a student exhibit (paintings and photos), some pieces from the glass studio, and some pieces from the pottery studio.
Maybe they're practicing for the day they can knock over the MET or the MOMA.
Nadine, there is no pepperisadickhead.com, but yall could set one up if you want. Herve could provide pics.
Good one Turbo! Shitty art... He He
Pepper may be a dick, but he always relocates to interesting places... like anuses.
And LOLZ to Turbo. You made my day right there.
Hmmm... Pepper, it appears that you telling 1 person that they are off topic gets another 15 off topic... If you are going to critique someone for that, pump some methodone and stare into oblivion... Come on, it will be fun
Kira aren't you the gal you got everyone off topic about jailing junkies?
Gosh, I was just jacking with Nighingale calm down.
I hope the prescription labels were still on the bottles of Methadone. Meaning, I hope the REAL owner was reunited with his Meds and not some 3-5 year old child thinking it was just 'TANG' or if in the USA, chewable 'FLINTSTONES'.
Funny, in Canada, well, Ontario anyway. The Pharmacists mix the powdered Methadone with water and then it's mixed with Tang.
In the USA, some states anyway, Pharmacists give the patients' pills.
I think it's like that in the UK, as well. Which, in theory, isn't a great idea because 'hard-core' junkies can mainline the pills, crushed and mixed with water.
I saw a Documentary on it, just the other evening.
The experts were saying that 'hard-core' junkies are and will get addicted to that needle. They're even known to 'hit up' just water????
I've known and met a few people whom have turned their lives around, for the better. Totally different persons'.
Rehab, love, support, nurturing, eating healthy, environmental change, friend change, and sometimes a new relationship.
However, learning to like yourself is key.
Sorry, this was sooooo long!!! Sorry friends'!
Gina used to get methadone and oxycontin from the old lady who got it from the pain clinic.
i dont think this is a list of stolen items. i think it's of things to remember to pack while moving. especially if this person needs to separate her things from a roommates.
ya dig?
Les: the less talented brother. I didn't see that. That's funny.
my christmas list!
seriously,
methadone and dali prints? right on.
it's interesting how in 'sewing machine' the word 'machine' is in lowercase letters. I don't think a different person wrote that though; the handwriting just looks different because it isn't in all caps like the rest of the list. the word 'sewing' was definitely the same person, at least.
also, the word 'yellow' is lowercase as well.
why didn't they scan the back of the paper too? it looks like there is more to the list..
Wish I were, nice use of the subjunctive! i hope you're right about the hike. Queen lisa, about the female writer of sewing machine, why are there upper and lower case Es? The guy wrote "sewing" and the girl wrote "machine" maybe.
Nightingale, that's a bummer. I've taken to leaving nothing at all in cars. So many meth addicts constantly breaking into them, or flat stealing the car. Most things you might leave in the car are of no value to anyone, but a royal pain to you if stolen.
Flargy, I agree about the pharmaceutical industry. Like, forget gun control. How about pschyco-med control. (P.S. I always like parentheses.)
Flargy, I have friends in law enforcement that would agree with you. Legalize all drugs. However, they do not want to see the drugs made safe for consumption. They want them to be completely pure and affordable. Then the addicts would use all they could afford and the purity would make them so strong they would kill the addicts. Soon, no more addicts. I don't know what I think about that. I don't think there is high percentage of success in treating addicts sop maybe it's a losing battle but every addict is a person and I hate to see everyone give up on them.
so, not sop.
Well Duhhhh. I've been sitting here wondering what a B-16 is (some kind of plane? a bomber? made by boeing?) and why someone would have a painting of it... and whether it was an abstract (done by me).. Even googled it and found http://www.avrosys.nu/aircraft/Bomb/156B16.htm
And then I finally realized it's BIG painting in garage.
Oh, and in an aside to you know who, and you know why: thank you.. I heart you. You ROCK.