brian, it seems that several famous paintings were stolen from a museum in rio de janeiro late friday after noon by a one armed bandit. who, after taking the paintings, reportedly beat 3 tourists unconscious with a baseball bat and then fled the scene sometime around 2:30 pm. Police are now looking for a one armed man who is missing his left ear and only has 2 fingers on his one remaining arm. 
we now go live to chip chafer for the full story: 
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/ ... index.html