Why doesn’t something like this ever happen to me:
When a McKinney couple picked up a coloring book for their daughter at a garage sale, they were surprised to see what looked like sketches drawings for a comic book tucked inside. But that was just the start of the surprises.
Paul and Jamillah Washington took the black-and-white sketches to a local art auction house to get a better idea of what they were.
They turned out to be oversized artboards for the original “Avengers” comic book from 1964, worth some $48,000.
It didn’t work out for them, though. The art was stolen and the folks ended up in cuffs:
“They read us our rights, they grabbed me and put me in another room,” remembered Paul Washington. “I’m just like in shock! What’s going on, asking a lot of questions.”
Now that has happened to me. They are out of jail while the police investigate.
