Cleaning lady throws "modern art" out with the trash

On Borepatch: The cleaning lady has more brains than the rest of them.

An article by the BBC:

A cleaner has mistakenly thrown away contemporary artworks meant to be part of an exhibition in southern Italy.  

Works made out of newspaper and cardboard, and cookie pieces scattered across the floor as part of Sala Murat's display were thrown out.  

Lorenzo Roca, from cleaning firm Chiarissima, said the unnamed cleaner was  "just doing her job".  

He added his firm's insurance would cover the value of the art, estimated to  be around 10,000 euros (£8,200).   

According  to local press, security noticed a number of items were missing when the  venue, in the province of Bari, opened on Wednesday morning.  

It later emerged the cleaner had handed them over to refuse collectors, thinking it was rubbish left behind by workers who set up the Mediating Landscape exhibition.

"Works made out of newspaper and cardboard, and cookie pieces scattered across the floor" are worth 10,000 euros?  I'm in the wrong business.