Small boy mistakes Jersey City sand mandala for playground, destroys hours of work

[TorchTheWitch]

71. I don't get it either unless they didn't look at it

and figured it was just some multicolored simple thing that could be redone in a few minutes.

I liken it to the wedding cake analogy from another poster. Yes, a wedding cake is meant to be destroyed and eaten by the guests, but the finished cake is important as well as the ceremony of it being cut and pieces distributed. Any bride or groom would be horrified if their wedding cake was destroyed before it was seen in it's completed state and robbed of the ceremony of "destroying" it themselves.

Yes, the child shouldn't have been allowed to run around loose especially when the mother would have known there was a work of art in progress. But what irritates me more is that after her child destroyed that work of art instead of apologizing for the incident she grabbed her kid and fled. As embarrassing as it is when your kid has done something detrimental to others there's an obligation to take responsibility and at least apologize even if that's all you can do to make amends.