18th Century Statue Destroyed By A Tourist Taking A Picture In Lisbon Museum
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If you hated selfies before, you’re going to go a step beyond hate after you hear about this tourist, who knocked over and destroyed an 18th-century statue while trying to snap a photo of himself.
The statue I’m talking about is the one of Saint Michael that was stationed at the National Museum of Ancient Art in Lisbon. During the free-entrance-Sunday, a Brazilian tourist was trying to snap a selfie and as he was backing off, he knocked the sculpture to the ground, shattering it beyond repair.
Nuno Miguel Rodrigues was on the scene when it happened and managed to snap a photo that quickly went viral on Facebook. The deputy director of the museum Jose Alberto Seabra Carvalho said: “I’ve been working in the museum for many years and cannot recall anything similar happening.“
The identity of the Brazillian tourist is being kept from public as the investigation is still ongoing.
Update: Thanks to our awesome readers, who’ve uncovered the factual mistakes in the article! The photographer wasn’t actually taking a selfie, according to the witnesses he was backing down to take a picture of something else and hit the statue. The museum staff is saying that the restoration is going to be a difficult one, but it should be successful.
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i hate selfies. people are so addicted to likes on Facebook, it's just mental illness
I support you, but I think social networks have the same function than years ago that is connect people, the problem is how ppl use them, the culture.
like everything. social media it's ok, but when you NEED approval it's sick (ok now give me lot and lot of up :-) )
No.. we didn't start not being connected to people. The problem is the people.
agree ...
I know right ! I'm 14 and I don't even understand why people do selfies....
You are a hope gor this world!
As someone who suffers from mental illness, I find it deeply inappropriate that you compare people's desire for attention and to be liked to am acute and heavily misunderstood medical condition, that makes life incredibly difficult for those who suffer from it. Depression and anxiety, for example, may cause insecurity, but it also causes victims to avoid social interac
I think selfies are not necessarily bad. I get that everybody is overdoing it but selfies can be fun! Just don't do too much \(#^ o ^#)/
I wish plague and pestilence on all of the idiot selfie takers in museums... I see you assholes everywhere! At this point I don't care anymore if you walk into a road and get killed by a bus, just don't destroy our heritage, in fact I'd like to help you onto the road...
I wonder what an over-opinionated person thinks though...
;) yeah ok, that was a bit obnoxious... I just got angry... that's what happens when you witness an asshole damage a painting with his selfie stick and then try to pretend like it wasn't him...
:D yeah boiii
That's not Acceptable! These types of things should never happen! Better security needs too be implemented unfortunately!
And just what kind of security do you propose? One guard per visitor ro physically catch any idiot who stumbles trying to take a selfie? Security and this situation have nothing to do with eachother
Just encase relics in glass or acrylic tanks.
A simple fence around sensitive items ?
This is a museum with 82 exibithion rooms and a total of 61 workers (not only guards). So, web don't need a guard per visitor but se need até least onde guard for each tão rooms.
I think there are more important things that should never happen... Train crashes... mass shootings... Just because something was made a long time ago doesn't automatically mean it has any quality. It's a poor piece of sculpture.
i hate selfies. people are so addicted to likes on Facebook, it's just mental illness
I support you, but I think social networks have the same function than years ago that is connect people, the problem is how ppl use them, the culture.
like everything. social media it's ok, but when you NEED approval it's sick (ok now give me lot and lot of up :-) )
No.. we didn't start not being connected to people. The problem is the people.
agree ...
I know right ! I'm 14 and I don't even understand why people do selfies....
You are a hope gor this world!
As someone who suffers from mental illness, I find it deeply inappropriate that you compare people's desire for attention and to be liked to am acute and heavily misunderstood medical condition, that makes life incredibly difficult for those who suffer from it. Depression and anxiety, for example, may cause insecurity, but it also causes victims to avoid social interac
I think selfies are not necessarily bad. I get that everybody is overdoing it but selfies can be fun! Just don't do too much \(#^ o ^#)/
I wish plague and pestilence on all of the idiot selfie takers in museums... I see you assholes everywhere! At this point I don't care anymore if you walk into a road and get killed by a bus, just don't destroy our heritage, in fact I'd like to help you onto the road...
I wonder what an over-opinionated person thinks though...
;) yeah ok, that was a bit obnoxious... I just got angry... that's what happens when you witness an asshole damage a painting with his selfie stick and then try to pretend like it wasn't him...
:D yeah boiii
That's not Acceptable! These types of things should never happen! Better security needs too be implemented unfortunately!
And just what kind of security do you propose? One guard per visitor ro physically catch any idiot who stumbles trying to take a selfie? Security and this situation have nothing to do with eachother
Just encase relics in glass or acrylic tanks.
A simple fence around sensitive items ?
This is a museum with 82 exibithion rooms and a total of 61 workers (not only guards). So, web don't need a guard per visitor but se need até least onde guard for each tão rooms.
I think there are more important things that should never happen... Train crashes... mass shootings... Just because something was made a long time ago doesn't automatically mean it has any quality. It's a poor piece of sculpture.