A Million Pardons
A frequent visitor to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England, tripped on the stairs and crashed into three 300-year-old Chinese vases. Nick Flynn, 42, said he “missed the step and crash bang wallop, there was a million pieces of high quality Qing ceramics lying around.” The vases were estimated to have been worth more than 400,000 pounds (about US$700,000). “If those vases had been at the British Museum, they would have been secured and not just left standing where someone could bump into them,” Flynn said. “And if there had been a handrail, I would have been able to grab hold of it.” (London Telegraph) ...Does anyone get the feeling he’s setting them up for a lawsuit?
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