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Tourist snaps the toes off 19th-century statue while posing for photo -Doh!


Police in Italy have identified a 50-year-old Austrian man who broke three toes off a statue at a museum as he posed for a photo with the artwork.

The 200-year-old plaster cast model of Antonio Canova’s statue of Paolina Bonaparte was damaged in the incident on July 31 at the Gipsoteca Museum in Possagno, northern Italy, Treviso Carabinieri, the local law enforcement agency, told CNN.

The man, whose name has not yet been released, was caught on a surveillance camera jumping up onto the statue’s base to get a picture when the maneuver inadvertently snapped its toes.

Posted: 08/05/2020 at 1:39PM



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  I guess losing 3 toes would be "Bonaparte" ** -- coshokie 08/05/2020 2:16PM
  The only solution... -- EDGEMAN 08/05/2020 2:03PM
  Humanity deserves whatever it gets ** -- LonghornHokie 08/05/2020 1:57PM
  Like Clark Griswold knocking over Stonehenge. ** -- RoswellGAHokie 08/05/2020 1:52PM

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