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Boy accidentally smashes 3,500-year-old jar on museum visit
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| 08/272024
| Jack Burgess
Posted on 08/27/2024 4:44:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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posted on
08/27/2024 4:44:37 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
08/27/2024 4:44:58 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: BenLurkin
I hope it’s not “You break it, you bought it.”
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posted on
08/27/2024 4:45:51 PM PDT
by
EvilCapitalist
(Pets are no substitute for children)
To: BenLurkin
How? I don’t even keep paper plates where a 4 year old could get them.
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posted on
08/27/2024 4:46:52 PM PDT
by
IllumiNaughtyByNature
(Polls are designed to sell more ads & polls only. If it's not a horse race the money dries up.)
To: BenLurkin
“Rare artifact because it was so intact”
Inspector Clouseau: “Not anymeaur!”
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/27/2024 4:52:01 PM PDT
by
thinden
(buckle up ....)
To: BenLurkin
The museum could not have been nicer about it, but bottom line, the dad should have been watching his 4 year old much more closely. That would have been unlikely to happen when I was 4, late 1950s. I would have gotten my bare legs beaten with a switch from this honeysuckle bush in the back yard. Or maybe a leather belt would have done the talking.
To: BenLurkin
It had been on display near the entrance of the museum without glass, as the museum believes there is "special charm" in showing archaeological finds "without obstructions".
Oh brother. The museum director needs to be fired immediately.
To: BenLurkin
I doubt it. I think the boy’s parents and perhaps even the boy himself was an anti-semite.
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posted on
08/27/2024 4:56:07 PM PDT
by
nwrep
To: BenLurkin
I think I’ve met that 4 year old numerous times. They’re poorly disciplined and think they can touch whatever they want. Kids would never have been so bold as to touch something like that years ago. Celebrating the kid by having him back like he’s some kind of hero is just stupid.
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posted on
08/27/2024 4:57:21 PM PDT
by
JudyinCanada
(Stand up to bullies. Bowing down is cowardly, and they win.)
To: Disambiguator
Hysterical over a mere blemish on the furniture.
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posted on
08/27/2024 4:58:49 PM PDT
by
LukeL
To: BenLurkin
> It had been on display near the entrance of the museum without glass… <
No glass? Well, that’s dumb. I wonder if the museum also keeps buckets of rare coins out in the open, too. You know, so people can get a good look at them.
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posted on
08/27/2024 4:59:10 PM PDT
by
Leaning Right
(The steal is real.)
To: IllumiNaughtyByNature
How? I don’t even keep paper plates where a 4 year old could get them.”
I don’t know why the parents brought the child there. He would have had no interest and of course would be bored and rambunctious.
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posted on
08/27/2024 4:59:11 PM PDT
by
angry elephant
(Been with Trump since huge 2016 Washington state rally in May.)
To: BenLurkin
”…was a rare artefact because it was so intact…” .
Intact, eh?
Four year olds have ways of fixing such ‘problems’…
To: LukeL
Steinways aren’t priceless, just expensive.
To: BenLurkin
The boy's father, Alex, said his son "pulled the jar slightly" because he was "curious about what was inside", causing it to fall.Hey dumbass dad, supervise your brat.
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posted on
08/27/2024 5:02:03 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(Sic Semper Tyrannis)
To: BenLurkin
Meh, if they have all the pieces, they can just glue it back together. Museums do that sort of thing all the time.
To: BenLurkin
Is the Griswold family in Europe again?
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posted on
08/27/2024 5:03:39 PM PDT
by
Governor Dinwiddie
(LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
To: BenLurkin
I was at the British Museum admiring the Elgin Marbles when a kid leaned against one of the pieces. I thought the security guard was going to stroke out.
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posted on
08/27/2024 5:04:12 PM PDT
by
mware
To: angry elephant
That and the fact that the items were not behind glass and/or unreachable. Mind boggling unless it was intentional and the kid was used to break it for a type of vandalism?
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posted on
08/27/2024 5:04:30 PM PDT
by
IllumiNaughtyByNature
(Polls are designed to sell more ads & polls only. If it's not a horse race the money dries up.)
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