oopsie!

[chelidon]

As christeos_pir found: Museum visitor trips, breaks Chinese vases

But you have to seriously admire the British polished calm and class:

"It was a most unfortunate and regrettable accident, but we are glad that the visitor involved was able to leave the museum unharmed," said Duncan Robinson, the Fitzwilliam's director.

The schmoe trips and takes out two absolutely priceless vases, prizes of the collection, and they're worried about his safety? Well, yeah, there probably was a long line of apoplectic curators having to be bodily restrained from offing him on the spot...

"Feed him to the alligators."

"But sir, we don't have alligators."

"Get some."

Comments

[christeos-pir.livejournal.com]

Now, if it was some kid with pants big enough for a family of 5 to live in, unlaced Nikes, and hoodie pulled up around his face, yo yo yo, I think the alligators would certainly have been justified. };->

[chelidon.livejournal.com]

Anyone who shatters three Qing vases is just asking to be fed to *something*. Maybe the curator of that section has a pack of hungry Pomeranians or something, ooooh.

[snakey.livejournal.com]

You might be amused to know that Margaret Greeves (the assistant manager at the Fitz) once wrote an article called "Risk Management at the Fitzwilliam Museum", the aim of which was "to ensure appropriate conditions for the collections and the reduction of risks to objects and staff"....

Oh, dear, Margaret.

[chelidon.livejournal.com]

Oh, ow. And again, ow. I have to admit, among my inital reactions was, "the vases were sitting out where someone could stumble into them exactly why?"

are they ill-tempered pomeranians?

[cerr.livejournal.com]

Have they got lasers attached to their foreheads?
Silliness......I'm glad the tripper wasn't harmed, but OH the art!!!!!

Re: are they ill-tempered pomeranians?

[chelidon.livejournal.com]

Have they got lasers attached to their foreheads?

Certainly, though purely to enable absolute precision aiming of the primary weapon, a spoon. "Why a spoon?" "It'll hurt more."

I feel badly for the man in question, too...."for the want of a lace, the step was lost, for the want of a step, the balance was lost, for the want of a balance, the vases were lost..." Ow.

Re: are they ill-tempered pomeranians?

[cerr.livejournal.com]

*snark!*
*thud*
heh......oh I so dig the spoon..........

A LACE! MY KINGDOM FOR A LACE!!!!!
How very Richard II of him, eh?