JENGA!

Stupid is as a stupid does.

That has to be one of the most incredibly embarrassing things that could happen to someone

You have to wonder why 3 priceless vases were sitting on a windowsill.

In my head, this man looks like Rowan Atkinson.

See? That's why we can't have nice things!

How low was the windowsill that he hit it while falling?

I accidentally brushed against a display at the Smithsonian's Museum of American History and set off about 20 different alarms and had three guards come rushing in the room. It was terribly embarrassing; I can't imagine how bad it would be to break something.

It's like a Bull running throw a china store with 300 year old vases?

/not funny

Wanted for questioning.

I would absolutely love to accidentally break something priceless. I mean how can they charge me if it is priceless?

Wanna learn how to tie your shoes
It's a very easy thing to do
Just sit on down
And I'll give you the scoop
What's that?
It's called the Loop-D-Loop!

You gotta take a lace in each hand
You go over and under again
You make a Loop-D-Loop and pull
And your shoes are looking cool

You go over and back
Left to right
Loop-d-loop
and you pull them tight
Like bunny ears or a Christmas bow
Lace 'em up and your ready to go

You make the loop-d-loop and pull
and your shoes are looking cool

You make the loop-d-loop and pull
and your shoes are looking cool!

As a student of finance and investing, the term 'priceless' irks me.

Can anyone give me an explanation of what that means?

Steve Baxter, another visitor who saw the accident

Was he gathering material for another interesting, yet depressing sci-fi novel?

/Keep reading his stuff, then I always act surprised when the book turns out to be depressing. Silly me.

tealeaf
You beat me!

I was thinking precisely the same thing.

Does this count as "Breaking News?"

I took my best friend to body works and she started peeling off the dry tissue on one of the bodies "because it looked like tissue paper". good thing the guards weren't paying attention. and people around her just stared in shocked horror but didn't say anything.

/can't take her anywhere

I usually leave priceless, fragile items just sitting around too, so I guess I can see it happening. I'm still pretty damn glad it didn't happen to me.

Call it performance art and win the Turner Prize.

/peep out the fat laces
//donut blame them for broke vases

so who is the dumbass tag for? the man for tripping (which we all do) or the museum for having "priceless vases" just sitting there unprotected on a low windowsill?

if you said A: The Man, slap yourself. You have no uncommon sense.

if you said B: The Museum, give yourself a goddamn pat on the back, you have uncommon sense

thanks for playing, goodnight everybody!

/credits roll
//starring Alex Trebeck

most embarassing thing i ever did was set off the fire alarm at sams club when i leaned back too far in a recliner they had by the door.

on the upside, we walked out of the store with a 36" tv. a rather large tv seeing as this 4 or 5 years ago now.

Pynchon82


tealeaf
You beat me!

I was thinking precisely the same thing.


I owe it all to Totalfark. Links get greenlit sometimes sit over there a bit before they hit the main page. Makes the five dollars a month I pay totally worth it.

Yankees Team Gynecologist
Dad: Late 14th Ming Dynasty. Oh it breaks the heart.
Indy: And the head. You hit me dad.
Dad: I'll never forgive myself.
Indy: Don't worry I'm all right.
Dad: Thank God... it's fake. See you can tell with the cross sections.

At first, i thought the "there it is, that's the culprit" quote was a clever joke for the headline. Turns out, the ass actually said that to the cops.
Wow.

/rtfa'd!

should have worn velcro

This was the Fitzwilliam museum in Cambridge...my girlfriend works there. They were three absolutely MASSIVE vases that were on a huge ledge. I have no idea how in the hell this guy managed to do it...if you were given an order by your boss to knock these things over, you'd first have a good look at them and try and come up with an efficient way to knock them over, scheduling a goodly portion of your morning to accomplish it. The staff were told the man may have certain mental issues. 'May'.

Breaking vases IS art.

Maybe he fell over his bad buck-teeth.

How embarassing!

/obvious

Dayum, those are some long laces!

1.) Place "priceless" (and heavily insured) artifacts on an unsecured shelf within easy reach of the general public.
2.) ???
3.) Profit.

That was funny!

I might go take a look...

/currently about 10 mins walk from that museum.

Isn't this technically "Breaking news?"

When asked how he felt after breaking the vases, he replied, "Smashing!"

/yuk yuk

The real winner is the insurance company.

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

I'm sure they were reluctant to let him leave unharmed.

The museum being "reluctant" to admit their worth is a pretty good indicator of their worth. Trip, indeed.

Didn't they have security cameras on those? I'd pay money to watch the footage of how it happened. (and to ID the idiot)

Inspector Clouseau should be called in.

/obvious
What does that mean?