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January 30, 2006

THIS

...is SO me and my luck. I'm cringing and had nothing to do with it ~ it's THAT familiar a sequence.

The incident happened last week at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England, which for decades has displayed a group of Qing dynasty Chinese vases on a window sill.

A hapless visitor tripped on a loose shoelace, tumbled down a flight of stairs and crashed into the vases, smashing them into smithereens.

Posted by tree hugging sister at January 30, 2006 01:58 PM

Comments

Real life imitates every sitcom ever made.

Posted by: Ken Summers at January 30, 2006 03:30 PM

Mr. Bean was not availible for comment after leaving the museum...

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at January 30, 2006 05:12 PM

"This is my vase, right? This is Billy Ray's vase. And if I want to play Harlem Globetrotters shit with it, then... [SMASH]"

--Trading Places

Posted by: Dave J at January 30, 2006 11:32 PM

Heh.

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at January 31, 2006 06:09 AM

They had valuable artefacts on a windowsill? They deserved to lose them. You're a museum, buy a couple of fucking display cases. They can't cost that much.

Posted by: Andrea Harris at January 31, 2006 07:30 AM

It's kind of funny because it WASN'T me and my two left feet and perpetually untied shoes (and people thought I switched to those elastic thingy sneakers becasue they were in style)

Posted by: Cindermutha at January 31, 2006 07:41 AM

Andrea, they were Qing Dynasty (which ended in 1911), so they weren't all that valuable. We have one at home ourselves, and we're far from rich. If they had been Ming Dynasty, however...

If that makes you feel any better, THS.

Posted by: John at January 31, 2006 10:03 AM

BILLY RAY (Eddie Murphy): Oh, man, Randy, Morty, I'm sorry about that. That was a cheap vase, right?

MORTIMER (Don Ameche): I believe we paid...thirty-five thousand dollars for it.

RANDOPLH (Ralph Bellamy): Yes, but if I recall we had its insurance value appraised at fifty thousand. You see, Mortimer? Mister Valentine has already made us a profit of fifteen thousand dollars!

Posted by: Dave J at January 31, 2006 10:58 PM