My completely uninformed speculation on the thief’s motive: He was spying on the defence site, but he learned spycraft only from watching James Bond movies. Not realizing he could have just walked away after being confronted, he stole a car to flee the scene. Throughout the chase, he was certain that stealing just one more car would throw the police off his trail and he could make a clean getaway.

I can’t see the thumbnail, but I could already hear the Ryan George character in my head just from reading the image text, so when I saw a youtube link I assumed it had to be one of those skits.

When a headline asks a question, then the answer is usually “It’s not that simple, but, no, not really”. Sounds like it applies here. “Well, they often were painted, but no, we have no reason to assume they did a bad job like we sometimes do.”

Edit: The post title was changed to a statement, but the article is still titled “Were classical statues painted horribly?”.