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Demovictory9

(32,449 posts) Thu Aug 6, 2020, 03:37 PM Aug 2020

https://www.cnn.com/videos/arts/2020/08/04/tourist-breaks-statue-italy-orig-mrg.cnn

Watch posing tourist snap toes off 19th-century statue
Surveillance footage from a museum in Italy shows a tourist sitting on a 200-year old statue and breaking three of its toes off.

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Watch posing tourist snap toes off 19th-century statue (Original Post) Demovictory9 Aug 2020 OP

Why was he sitting on it in the first place? Retrograde Aug 2020 #3

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1. I feel a little sorry for him. He probably didn't realize the statue was a plaster cast, not marble.

Thu Aug 6, 2020, 04:44 PM

Aug 2020

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2. I'm with you. They can work conservation magic on it and then maybe rope it off.

Thu Aug 6, 2020, 06:31 PM

Aug 2020

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3. Why was he sitting on it in the first place?

Thu Aug 6, 2020, 06:42 PM

Aug 2020

One upside to this pandemic: we're seeing that it's not just Americans who can be uncouth boors.

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4. It wasn't roped off and he was posing with the statue of the pretty reclining nude lady.

Thu Aug 6, 2020, 06:58 PM

Aug 2020

Looked like a joke pic to me and probably one that's done by many male tourists. This guy just bumped the lady's toes.