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(Scroll down for video) A man who was caught with a stolen painting, was ordered to write an apology over and over again as his punishment.
Barent Larkin, who is the general manager of the Citizen Hotel in Sacramento, California, said that an expensive painting that hung on the bathroom wall of the men’s bathroom went missing.
The drunk man decided that it was an attractive piece to take home after drinking too much at a wedding. That guest took it off the bathroom wall and tucked it in his garment bag.
Larkin checked the hotel surveillance videos and did a little detective work online through Google and LinkedIn. He found the thief and contacted him by phone.
"He sounded legitimately upset by what he did, it was a drunken mistake, one he wanted to take back," Larkin said.
Police went to the man's house to retrieve the portrait. However, he did not go to jail.
Instead, Larkin did something only done in elementary schools. He ordered the thief to sit down with a piece of paper and a pencil, and write one line over and over again.
“I will not get drunk at a wedding and go steal the naked picture of a woman on a cigar over the urinal in the Citizen Hotel," the man wrote.
The portrait will hang again in the bathroom in a more secure manner. The anonymous letter from the thief will be right beside it.