American tourist breaks the finger off a 600-year-old statue in Italy

[eileenhawkeye]

Everyone may find this hilarious but look at the investigation and take down of a woman for throwing green paint on an American icon and other such places, I find this a little disrespectful IMO

I find it disrespectful too. I don't get all the posts here that are so proud that they would do the same thing. How about showing some respect for the historical artifacts that museums give us the opportunity to view?

 

[defense101]

One of my favorite descriptions of we U.S.-ers in another land is from WWII when GIs arrived in England to train and ready themselves for the invasion of the continent.

Our boys were paid much better than the English troops. And we were, and are, not a timid people.

The British phrase for these foreigners on their soil was that we were "overpaid, over-sexed, and over here!"

Maybe perhaps while they were over there they were, were you there, my husband was a British soldier and agrees with everything you say, but it was the disrespect that was shown that was the problem, and never forget that they had been fighting THE war for a lot of years prior to your boys showing up.

 

[Linda7NJ]

I'm flabbergasted that anyone would handle an exhibit in a museum, unless said exhibit it specifically for that purpose! :banghead: I took my son to the zoo the other day, and shook my head and said "No sweetie, don't do that" to the little girl crouched down poking a turtle's head with a long piece of bark and then reaching her arm through the bars to touch it's head. My son and I walked on and not 1 minute later I heard her mother call to another of her children, as SHE HERSELF is crouched down poking at the turtle, "LOOK! Come touch it's head!" Never a zookeeper around when you need one. People are amazingly ignorant, and she's training her children to have the same lack of respect and common sense. I hope this guy has to pay for the restoration of the piece.

Poking a living thing is just stupid and wrong.
I have a friend that has a traveling petting zoo. I went with her one day and almost lost my mind. The things people allow their children to do to animals makes me sick. A boy about 3 or 4 was picking up handfuls of sand to throw into the face of a goat. Mom just stood there with her thumb up her butt. I sternly said, how would you like it if I threw sand in your face? Mom looked at me like I was crazy... I swear, if that brat picked up one more handful of sand I would have slapped his mom!!!
Oh and the poking with sticks... All darn day! If she or I had a dollar for every time we said... No poking...

If I'm traveling, paying and looking at something like a statue that's survived for hundreds of years.,. I'm touching it! Seriously, it was previously broken anyway.

 

[STEADFAST]

I find it disrespectful too. I don't get all the posts here that are so proud that they would do the same thing. How about showing some respect for the historical artifacts that museums give us the opportunity to view?

I don't see any posters claiming they would do the same thing and be proud of it. What posts are you referring to?

 

[eileenhawkeye]

Poking a living thing is just stupid and wrong.
I have a friend that has a traveling petting zoo. I went with her one day and almost lost my mind. The things people allow their children to do to animals makes me sick. A boy about 3 or 4 was picking up handfuls of sand to throw into the face of a goat. Mom just stood there with her thumb up her butt. I sternly said, how would you like it if I threw sand in your face? Mom looked at me like I was crazy... I swear, if that brat picked up one more handful of sand I would have slapped his mom!!!
Oh and the poking with sticks... All darn day! If she or I had a dollar for every time we said... No poking...

If I'm traveling, paying and looking at something like a statue that's survived for hundreds of years.,. I'm touching it! Seriously, it was previously broken anyway.

But why do you have the right to touch the statue just because you paid for admission? Maybe it survived for hundreds of years because thousands/millions of people weren't touching it. There has to be a reason why museums don't allow people to touch the artifacts.

 

[krimekat]

Who has the Gorilla Glue? So much better than Super/Krazy Glue

Duct tape would be tacky

 

[Linda7NJ]

But why do you have the right to touch the statue just because you paid for admission? Maybe it survived for hundreds of years because thousands/millions of people weren't touching it. There has to be a reason why museums don't allow people to touch the artifacts.

They don't allow touching statues because they're big ole meanies! IMO

 

[Elley Mae]

Despite international attention and Broderick’s embarrassment, Verdon says it’s “not a tragedy” since the statue’s original marble fingers had already been restored and replaced with plaster ones. “And thankfully we have a technical person in the museum who has fixed a finger before,” Verdon told the Daily Mail.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/0...0-year-old-statue-while-vacationing-in-italy/

I for one don't see anyone making light of this obvious accident, they were not the original fingers so someone some where broke them before. I wonder if that person is still serving time. I don't see where people were up in arms about the taliban blowing up the buddha statues, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...0-years-Buddhas-fall-to-Taliban-dynamite.html

 

[STANDREID]

:facepalm:

Stuff like this is why many of us, when in Europe, dont correct folks if they assume I'm Canadian.

But we don't club cute little baby seals and have a much cooler national anthem!:snooty:

 

[Gardenlady]

But we don't club cute little baby seals and have a much cooler national anthem!:snooty:

But unlike O, Canada, it's impossible for the average person to sing well! (And heck, judging by some performances ive seen, its impossible for some "professionals" to sing well too! :lol: ) I've always thought we should have gone with America the Beautiful instead. :rockon: