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Paul K

30-01-2006 17:17

Just a day trip to the museum....

BBC

Quote:

A stumbling visitor to a top museum has destroyed a set of priceless vases which stood on a shelf for 40 years.
The 300-year-old Qing vases were among the best known artefacts at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
The visitor is said to have slipped on a loose shoelace and fallen down a staircase bringing the vases crashing down as he tried to steady himself.
The vases, donated in 1948, were said to hold a "significant value" and were among the best known pieces on display.
The museum declined to identify the man who had tripped.
The accident happened last Wednesday and the museum said it was a most unfortunate and regrettable accident.

Wonder why he didn't alert a member of staff??? ;)

punky

30-01-2006 17:26

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BBC news is going downhill a bit.

First they are "priceless" and then they said they held a "significant value" Well, which is it?!?

Anywho... if they were so wonderful, why wern't they in a case or enclosure, or at least out of arms reach from the stairs?

MovedGoalPosts

30-01-2006 18:44

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I like the link on the BBC news website "hear how the vases were broken". One can just imagine the BBC sound effects guy working overtime on that one :D

Paul K

30-01-2006 19:01

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They actually have the guy on CCTV, wonder how security explained not actually catching up with the guy lol

MovedGoalPosts

30-01-2006 19:05

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er I'm confused Paul

Quote:

Originally Posted by BBC

The museum declined to identify the man who had tripped.

Does not mean they don't know who it was

Quote:

Originally Posted by BBC

An ambulance was called but the visitor left the Museum on foot having been seen by paramedics and staff first-aiders

suggests museum staff wer very much assisting the person involved.

Chimaera

30-01-2006 19:11

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I think it means they know who it was - they are just not grassing on him! :rofl:

luftys

30-01-2006 22:41

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Good job they were not new ones:disturbd:

Hom3r

30-01-2006 22:56

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I don't no if to laugh or not

Xaccers

31-01-2006 09:06

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Does the museum have new for old insurance? (with accident cover of course)

luftys

31-01-2006 22:10

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Xaccers

Does the museum have new for old insurance? (with accident cover of course)

No ,because they work on a shoe string

danielf

05-04-2006 23:00

Re: Just a day trip to the museum....

The culprit's been arrested for criminal damage...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/c...re/4878850.stm

Tuftus

05-04-2006 23:50

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This is most odd.

I remember this being told on R4, they said it was an accident and the museum banned him, then they did not as they had specialists in to glue the vases up... then it went all quiet and now he is up before the beak.

I take it the specialists could not get the glueing sorted then?

Graham M

06-04-2006 02:48

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They found Pritt Stick to be not good enough to hold it together :)

Chris

06-04-2006 11:15

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Tuftus

I don't think it has anything to do with their ability (or not) to repair the vases. A charge of criminal damage requires intent to be proven. If the police have arrested him, it's because they think it may not have been an accident after all.

Gareth

06-04-2006 11:16

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I never liked the way that Nick Flynn, the guy who did it, glibly referred to it as a "Norman Wisdom moment". If I had done that much damage to something so valuable and irreplaceable, I would be devastated a helluva lot more apologetic than he was.

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