Nice is nice. Oh snap! I didn't just make that joke, did I? Someone shoot me. I'm at my wit's end over here.

Five armed, masked thieves sprinted into an art museum on the French Riviera during opening hours Sunday afternoon and snatched a Monet and three other masterpieces off the walls in the latest brazen heist of high-profile art from the rich collections of Europe.

Wearing jumpsuits, the robbers ordered guards to lie on the floor at gunpoint as accomplices fanned through the galleries of Nice's Museum of Fine Arts. One thief grabbed French Impressionist Claude Monet's "Cliffs Near Dieppe" while others snagged the bucolic "Lane of Poplars at Moret" by another Impressionist, Alfred Sisley, and two evocative oil paintings by Flemish artist Jan Bruegel the Elder, according to Interpol, the international police agency.

In case you were wondering, this is the Sisley:

And this is the Monet:

4 masterpieces stolen from museum in Nice – The Boston Globe

It's bad enough that there are kids out there taking Jackass to heart. But when they end up hurting people other than themselves it actually makes me angry. I mean if some kid wants to light himself on fire or jump off of a roof because he thinks it's cool then who am I to complain? Anyone that stupid needs to learn an object lesson every once in a while. But in this case? The idiot's friend was asleep and unwittingly gets drawn into the Realm of the Brain-dead? That's foul. Police: Boy burns sleeping friend with hot water in stunt mimicking 'Jackass' movie

Genovese boss Gigante ends insanity ruse, pleads guilty to obstruction of justice

Man convicted in officer's drunken driving death gets 26-33 years

Small consolation of course, but seeing this piece of shit get such a lengthy sentence is nice.

"BOSTON (AP) A man convicted of killing an off-duty Boston police officer in a drunken driving accident was sentenced Tuesday to 26 to 33 years in prison.

A Suffolk Superior Court jury convicted William Powers last week of manslaughter, felony motor vehicle homicide and two counts of causing an accident resulting in serious bodily injury while operating under the influence.

The August 2001 collision in South Boston killed Officer Sean Waters and severely injured two of his friends. "

Kidnapped teen back with family. Personally, I'm floored that she's still alive. Stunned. After nine months or whatever it's been? I just assumed she was dead. She's not. That's amazingly excellently excellent. I can't even craft a positive enough phrase.