Dude...where's my art?
Have you ever gone out drinking with a girl and then when you woke up the next day and she was was gone, you realized how rare and wonderful she was?
Well, something like that recently happened to James Carl Haggerty, an art courier who is being sued after waking up in a boozy haze without not just any girl, but without Jean Baptiste Camille Corot's famed 19th century painting "Portrait of Girl," which was entrusted to him by it's owners, and is valued at $1.3 million. So what happened to the picture? According to the New York Post:
Haggerty leaves the bar at 12:50 a.m. He gets the painting from the front desk and "stumbles out the front door, colliding with the doorman as he is exiting," the suit says. "The doorman asks him if he'd like a cab, and allegedly Haggerty replies, 'No, I have a car.' "
Haggerty is then seen leaving with the painting. But he doesn't have it with him the next time he's caught on camera — when he returns to his apartment building at the Trump Building on 200 Riverside Boulevard at 2:30 a.m.
Oops.
So where's the million-dollar painting? And why is this tiger in the bathroom?
For now there are more questions than answers. But according to Kristyn Trudgeon, the painting's majority owner who is suing Haggerty for the price of the painting, she might not know where the masterpiece is, but she does have an opinion on her former courier: "I think he's a complete, fumbling idiot...He's just a complete a - -hole."
