Watch posing tourist snap toes off 19th-century statue

[Demovictory9]

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.

[hedda_foil]

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

[chowder66]

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

[Retrograde]

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

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

[hedda_foil]

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

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.