Posted on 10/08/2022 6:24:41 PM PDT by dynachrome
An angry tourist smashed two ancient sculptures at the Vatican after being denied a chance to meet with the pope. It's just the latest in a series of instances of visitors behaving badly in Rome. Read on to find out what happened, what authorities said about the man, and how long it will take for the ancient works to be repaired.
The incident happened around lunchtime in the Museo Chiaramonti, which is part of the Vatican Museums. It holds about 1,000 works of ancient statuary and Roman portraits. The man demanded to see the pope, the newspaper Il Messaggero reported. When he was told he couldn't, he allegedly hurled one Roman bust to the floor, then ran off, knocking another statue to the ground on his way.
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Shameful.
Who wants to see Pope Frankie anyway. The last Pope I would have wanted to see was JP II, and I’m not Catholic.
There should be an option to meet with a Pope impersonator. What the heck, the tourist probably just wants a photo with the “Pope.”
I looked for him (JPII), when we were at the Vatican, last time.
No sign of him...except a silhouette on an exterior door :-(
Get married with the “pope” officiating. Like “Elvis” in las Vegas.
I think it’s safe to come to the reasonable conclusion that it wasn’t some feral smashing up a McDonald’s over pickles on their burger, or cold fries this time.
One of these days, people in other countries are going to learn that most current day “americans” are flaming ***holes. They even destroyed American monuments, statues and relics. Spoiled little snot-nosed, retards. I recommend other countries not let “american” bass turds anywhere near anything of value. Physical or historical.
A darkened silhouette, like Alfred Hitchcock.
What a Baby!
Throwing a tantrum in the Vatican.
There are “snotnosed, retard liberals” destroying cities and abusing citizens as well. There are foreigners invading our country. They do more damage than this person did.
Why beat up on us when we’re getting invaded?
“ Egytian-American, sudden jihad syndrome ”
Aha. That little detail left out from the news stories I saw. Just referred to him as “American”.
“My fear is that with behavior like this, barriers could be put in place.”
Exactly so.
An interesting point about European museums (and palaces, etc) is how close you can get to the art. At the Prado you can be inches away from a Velasquez.
Breitbart describes him as “Egyptian origin”. The usual MSM suspects cover up that detail.
Why do you think the relics of rascist dead white imperialist males have any value whatsoever [other than whatever art my invest in fractional art and make a million dollars fund is invested in]?
This is kind of off topic, but when Disney makes an animatronic Resident Biden, everyone will remark how much more life-like and articulate it is over the real thing.
Kind of like “Texas Teen”.
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