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  • "Just an accident," says man who fell into museum vases ("snagged shoelace, 'Crash, Bang Wallop!'")

    02/06/2006 7:34:47 AM PST · by presidio9 · 41 replies · 1,176+ views
    Reuters ^ | Mon Feb 6, 2006
    A man who tripped, fell down a staircase and smashed into three rare Chinese vases in a museum two weeks ago said on Monday "it was just a regrettable accident." "I snagged my shoelace, missed the step and 'crash bang wallop,' there was a million pieces of high quality Qing ceramics lying around beneath me," Nick Flynn told BBC radio. "There is no way my pocket will stretch to reimburse them for the damage that I have done". A regular visitor to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, Flynn, 42, expressed surprise the three vases had not been secured in some...