Tie your fucking shoe you moron!

[Sarek]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/01/30/britain.museum.ap/index.html

CAMBRIDGE, England (AP) -- A museum visitor shattered three Qing dynasty Chinese vases when he tripped on his shoelace, stumbled down a stairway and brought the vases crashing to the floor, officials said Monday.

The three vases, dating from the late 17th or early 18th century, had been donated to The Fitzwilliam Museum in the university city of Cambridge in 1948, and were among its best-known artifacts. They had been sitting proudly on the window sill beside the staircase for 40 years.

"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 museum declined to identify the man who had tripped on a loose shoelace Wednesday.

Asked about the porcelain vases, Margaret Greeves, the museum's assistant director, said: "They are in very, very small pieces, but we are determined to put them back together."

The museum declined to say what the vases were worth.

 

[gprime]

He should be castrated and forcefed his own testicles.

 

[jack]

Now this....this is funny.

 

[Sarek]

There is only one thing that can be said about this.

Can anyone account for Gagh's where abouts at the time of the incident? :bigass:

 

[BlazerBoy]

Maybe they were filming a Mr. bean film, and it wasn't real?

 

[MessengerX]

They had been sitting proudly on the window sill beside the staircase for 40 years.

If they were so precious, maybe they should have put them somewhere, I don't know, safe?

 

[Sarek]

Maybe they were filming a Mr. bean film, and it wasn't real?

I was thinking it sounded like a setup for the new Steve Martin Pink Panther movie myself.

 

[jack]

I would assume after 40 years, that they were safe.

 

[MessengerX]

What if someone wanted to ruin them on purpose? If they priceless artifacts could be ruined by some idiot who didn't notice to tie his shoe, how hard could it be?

 

[NeonMercuryASH]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/01/30/britain.museum.ap/index.html

CAMBRIDGE, England (AP) -- A museum visitor shattered three Qing dynasty Chinese vases when he tripped on his shoelace, stumbled down a stairway and brought the vases crashing to the floor, officials said Monday.

The three vases, dating from the late 17th or early 18th century, had been donated to The Fitzwilliam Museum in the university city of Cambridge in 1948, and were among its best-known artifacts. They had been sitting proudly on the window sill beside the staircase for 40 years.

"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 museum declined to identify the man who had tripped on a loose shoelace Wednesday.

Asked about the porcelain vases, Margaret Greeves, the museum's assistant director, said: "They are in very, very small pieces, but we are determined to put them back together."

The museum declined to say what the vases were worth.

He couldn't tie his shoe, because he couldn't count to two. If he had, he wouldn't've shattered three. Simple mathematics, obviously.