OH NO! Not my tax returns, too!

This is more than an excuse to post a couple of Marcia Cross photos. But not much more. (In my defense, she has red hair and green eyes. In these circumstances, I'm pretty much helpless.)

Eek!

KLTV: Marcia Cross 'Desperate' for Return of Nude Photos

Marcia Cross' trash has become her garbage man's treasure, leaving the "Desperate Housewives" star wishing that she'd bought a shredder.

Nude photos of the 44-year-old actress are now in the hands of a man hired to cart away her trash - and they may soon be up for sale.

44? Wow!

"If someone can be so dumb as to throw something like that away, they just have to suffer the consequences," says agent David Hans Schmidt, who represents the garbage carting company.

He's an agent? Even garbagemen have agents?

Cross' lawyers are threatening to sue. They claim the photos were discarded by accident. But Schmidt is essentially telling them, "finders keepers".

I believe that is settled law.

"These photos were not stolen," Schmidt says. "Once my client picked up what she discarded, it belongs to him, and she can't do anything about it."

The incident is indeed proving embarrassing for the redheaded TV star, who married stockbroker Tom Mahoney in June, and recently announced that she was pregnant with twins.

If you are wondering why they mentioned her hair color...

Schmidt says his client found more than 200 photos of Cross, some showing her taking a shower outdoors. "If you're wondering about Marcia's natural hair color," Schmidt says, "I've got the answer."

Classy. I think I am on Marcia's side.

Among the other things Cross allegedly threw away - financial documents. "I can tell you exactly how much she's worth," Schmidt says. "They threw a lot out."

Ouch!

What Schmidt and his client will do with the photos remains to be seen.
The agent acknowledges that copyright law would prevent his client from publishing those photos in the United States. But he believes he can sell those photos, perhaps to a buyer outside the United States.

"What a potential buyer would do with those photos would be that person's responsibility," he says.

"I don't want to embarrass Cross, I just want to make money for my client," Schmidt says, indicating that he'd welcome the actress to bid on the photos.

Indeed, in a time when a half-eaten piece of Justin Timberlake's French toast, can be pulled from a radio station trashcan and sold on eBay for $1,025, celebrities should be careful about anything they throw away.

And you think our country is just fine and dandy...