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I WONDER WHO STOLE IT

This new Banksy was stolen yesterday in London less than an hour after he announced it.

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QUOTES OF THE DAY

“The state is a gang of thieves writ large.”

Murray Rothbard

“The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the application or the threat of force to behave otherwise than they would like to behave.”

Ludwig von Mises

“There could be no greater error than to conclude that statism caused prosperity.”

Leonard Read

“There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.”

Banksy

QUOTES OF THE DAY

“Politics and crime are the same thing.”

Michael Corleone

“There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.”

Banksy

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.”

Jonathan Swift

“I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.”

George W. Bush

Banksy artwork self-destructs moment after $1.4 million sale

LONDON (AP) — Art prankster Banksy has struck again.

A work by the elusive street artist apparently self-destructed in front of startled auction-goers on Friday, moments after being sold for 1.04 million pounds ($1.4 million).

The spray-painted canvas “Girl With Balloon” went under the hammer at Sotheby’s in London, fetching more than three times its pre-sale estimate and equaling a record price for the artist.

Then, as an alarm sounded, it ran through a shredder embedded in the frame, emerging from the bottom in strips.

A post on Banksy’s official Instagram account showed the moment — and the shocked reaction of those in the room — with the words “Going, going, gone…”

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