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Selfie-taking tourists shatter priceless Hercules statue
New York Post ^ | May 4, 2015 | Yaron Steinbuch

Posted on 05/04/2015 2:33:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Hercules has been crushed — because of a selfie!

A couple of tourists are in hot water after climbing onto a priceless marble statue of the mythical Greek hero in the northern city of Cremona, Italy, the Daily Mail reported.

The miscreants put too much weight on the statue at the Loggia dei Militi palace during their boneheaded bid to snap a photo of themselves — shattering the crown of the Statue of the Two Hercules.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: New York
KEYWORDS: cremona; godsgravesglyphs; hercules; idiots; italy; napl
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1 posted on 05/04/2015 2:33:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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2 posted on 05/04/2015 2:33:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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One too many tasks.............


3 posted on 05/04/2015 2:34:52 PM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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Idiots are taking out more culture than ISIS and the Taliban


4 posted on 05/04/2015 2:35:09 PM PDT by GeronL (Clearly Cruz 2016)
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Every nation is producing them ...

Satan wants God's earth

5 posted on 05/04/2015 2:36:05 PM PDT by knarf
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Super glue? Worked on my wife’s lamps she never knew I broke.


6 posted on 05/04/2015 2:38:24 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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I guess she doesn’t Freep?


7 posted on 05/04/2015 2:38:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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;/ nope.


8 posted on 05/04/2015 2:39:53 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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Perhaps....but when God takes control of God’s Earth...do you think he will allow such scultures depicting other Gods to exist? Someday a child may step onto a fractured face of a formerly beloved Buddhist statue, thinking it no more than old rocks in a path....!
God said he will someday shake the heavens and the Earth also....things that we call masterpieces of art or culture will no longer exist or be allowed to exist. Michaelangelo’s David...do you think God will allow that to exist? It’s all going to crumble!


9 posted on 05/04/2015 2:44:15 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (If Hitler, Nazi, OR...McCarthy are mentioned in an argument, then the argument is over!)
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Probably a combination of epoxy and internal anchors, in my “Rube Goldberg” experience.


10 posted on 05/04/2015 2:45:49 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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Not Americans i hope.


11 posted on 05/04/2015 2:47:19 PM PDT by pgkdan
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The two shutterbugs, whose identities were not released, may face charges.

Amanda Knox and "friend"?

12 posted on 05/04/2015 2:49:04 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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"Frah-jee-lay, heck, mom. It looks just like new!"

13 posted on 05/04/2015 2:49:06 PM PDT by FredZarguna (On your deathbed you will receive total consciousness. So I got that goin' for me.)
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Well, of course, I never considered that .... but antiquity has always been measured by sculpture, be it god or goddess ... and now that you say THAT ... I have to think about it.

thanx

14 posted on 05/04/2015 2:52:04 PM PDT by knarf
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Nah, Lindsay Lohan maybe

lol


15 posted on 05/04/2015 3:00:25 PM PDT by GeronL (Clearly Cruz 2016)
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How do you know what God is going to do to specific statues?


16 posted on 05/04/2015 3:01:14 PM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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I can imagine wanting a selfie while traveling just to prove “I was there.” But come on. I’ve seen ahoes like this climbing on Buddha statues of great age and on temples an stupas as people were worshiping. On our trip to Rome, the selfie crowd pushed us aside to get themselves immortalized. At least, in the Vatican Museum, there were security people on the lookout.


17 posted on 05/04/2015 3:02:38 PM PDT by JimSEA
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Looks like the US Congress hasn’t cornered the market on destructive stupidity after all.


18 posted on 05/04/2015 3:02:50 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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Narcissistic asshats.


19 posted on 05/04/2015 3:02:58 PM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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My questions were rhetorical! What do you think God will do?


20 posted on 05/04/2015 3:09:27 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (If Hitler, Nazi, OR...McCarthy are mentioned in an argument, then the argument is over!)
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