When you own a valuable bust of Benjamin Franklin you keep it under a watchful eye. Why then would someone attempt to steal such a treasure? Most likely the thief is not the sharpest tool in the shed.

How smart do you have to be to work in the house where the Ben Franklin bust is located and steal it? A housekeeper has pleaded guilty in the theft of a Benjamin Franklin bust allegedly worth $3 million that was taken from a home in suburban Philadelphia. As reported in abcnews.go.com.

Andrea Lawton, 47, of Mobile, Alabama, was living in Philadelphia when the bust was stolen last August. She fled to Alabama with the bust, before she was arrested in September getting off a Greyhound bus, where she had planned to sell the sculpture.

Do you think she stole the bust for money? Not according to Lawton who told investigators she stole the bust because she wanted to get the owner of the cleaning service for whom she worked fired.

The 25-pound bust is one of only four created by French artist Jean-Antoine Houdon and was made while Franklin visited Paris in 1778.

She has expressed great remorse for her action, however, it is obvious she needs counseling and perhaps a good stop theft class.