Someone Paid $25,200 for a Painting of a Chase Bank on Fire

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Alex Schaefer
People really hate banks right now, so much that they are willing to take money out of those banks to buy pictures of those banks on fire. Alex Schaefer, who painted this lovely oil on canvas of a Chase bank on fire and then put it up for sale on eBay -- drawing attention from eager potential buyers as well as the police, who contacted him to find out if he was planning to set a bank on fire himself -- has made $25,200 for the piece of art, which got 70 bids.

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