Don't Pee on Pooh

Our friends down at LAist beat us to the punch with the emerging news on kinda crappy Bay Area artist Thomas Kinkade.

This LA Times piece asserts that, among other things, proudly Christian Kinkade "heckled illusionists Siegfried & Roy in Las Vegas, cursed a former employee's wife who came to his aid when he fell off a barstool, and palmed a startled woman's breasts at a signing party in South Bend, Ind." These allegations come on the heels of a recent $860,000 settlement awarded to two gallery owners who claimed Kinkade hid business risks by using all sorts of God talk.

This SFist switched dentists due to a unpleasant Kinkade we had to stare at during cleanings. Now we're congratulating ourselves on sensing that this wasn't your everyday crappy office art, but was instead the work of a man who urinated on a Winnie the Pooh statue in Disneyland. For shame, Mr. Kinkade. For shame.