Now wouldn't you feel stupid

Visitor trips over shoelace at British museum, falls, shatters Chinese vases

CAMBRIDGE, England (AP) - A visitor to a British museum tripped on his shoelace, stumbled down a stairway and fell into a display of centuries-old Chinese vases, shattering them into "very small pieces," officials said Monday.

The three Qing dynasty vases, dating from the late 17th or early 18th century, had been donated to the Fitzwilliam Museum in the university city of Cambridge in 1948 and were among its best-known artifacts. They sat on the window sill beside the staircase for 40 years.

"It was a most unfortunate and regrettable accident, but we are glad that the visitor involved was able to leave the museum unharmed," museum director Duncan Robinson said.

The museum declined to identify the man who tripped on a loose shoelace Wednesday.

Asked about the porcelain vases, Margaret Greeves, the museum's assistant director, said: "They are in very, very small pieces, but we are determined to put them back together."

The museum declined to say what the vases were worth.

:thumbsup: now wouldnt you feel stupid!! but i guess it could happen to anyone.. :dance:

if the museum is enough stupid to not put these vases in some high security place, they are dumb

wow, THAT SUCKS!

yea that blows

what do you say after doing something like that "oops"

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Originally Posted by CostaRicaFreaka

Visitor trips over shoelace at British museum, falls, shatters Chinese vases

CAMBRIDGE, England (AP) - A visitor to a British museum tripped on his shoelace, stumbled down a stairway and fell into a display of centuries-old Chinese vases, shattering them into "very small pieces," officials said Monday.

The three Qing dynasty vases, dating from the late 17th or early 18th century, had been donated to the Fitzwilliam Museum in the university city of Cambridge in 1948 and were among its best-known artifacts. They sat on the window sill beside the staircase for 40 years.

"It was a most unfortunate and regrettable accident, but we are glad that the visitor involved was able to leave the museum unharmed," museum director Duncan Robinson said.

The museum declined to identify the man who tripped on a loose shoelace Wednesday.

Asked about the porcelain vases, Margaret Greeves, the museum's assistant director, said: "They are in very, very small pieces, but we are determined to put them back together."

The museum declined to say what the vases were worth.

:thumbsup: now wouldnt you feel stupid!! but i guess it could happen to anyone.. :dance:

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All things are temporary. We can't mourn the destruction of mere material objects.

My mates mum actually tripped over a very valuable "piece of art"(PIEce of shit frankly) in a gallery but walked off very sharpish so her name wasn't in any papers!!

It was just a big pile of sticks!! big deal, she didn't see it, an it ended up more a load of sticks, SPREAD OUT on the floor, hahaha! She got some shocked/horrified looks, an needless to say she was out of there very quickly.

The price on the piece of "art" was somewhere in the region of £40,000 an this was quite some time ago as well, when that would have been worth more.