goddamn ratfink punk kid bastard!

[Blue_Tires]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060301/ap_on_fe_st/gummed_up_art

Boy, 12, Sticks Gum on $1.5M Painting

DETROIT - A 12-year-old visitor to the Detroit Institute of Arts stuck a wad of gum to a $1.5 million painting, leaving a stain the size of a quarter, officials say.
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The boy was part of a school group from Holly that visited the museum on Friday, officials say. They say he took a piece of Wrigley's Extra Polar Ice gum out of his mouth and stuck it on Helen Frankenthaler's "The Bay," an abstract painting from 1963.

The museum acquired the work in 1965 and says it is worth about $1.5 million.

The gum stuck to the painting's lower left corner and did not adhere to the fiber of the canvas, officials told the Detroit Free Press. But it left a chemical residue about the size of a quarter, said Becky Hart, assistant curator of contemporary art.

[Benfea]

1. He should be skinned alive with rusty butter knives. -NT

[XemaSab]

2. It's a really ugly painting

[Redstone]

7. Yep. If they really want to punush him, they'll make him stare at it

for a long time. Let's see, you gotcher blue blob, your green blob, and your grey blob. Yup, it's ART, all right.

Redstone

[XemaSab]

8. Not to mention the pink blob

;)

[hfojvt]

9. I am sorta wondering

how it could be damaged? Maybe he was chanelling the artist who inspired him to finish his work?

[anarch]

3. I say give him a choice of punishments:

Either pay for the painting ($1.5 million), or eat his own buttocks.

[Capn Sunshine]

4. that kid should do community service

cleaning the rest rooms at that museum . Consequences is not a town in New Mexico, a fact lost on many indulged children these days

[Blue_Tires]

5. agreed n/t

[ZombieNixon]

6. Consequences really isn't a town in New Mexico.

Truth or Consequences, however...

[hfojvt]

10. I cannot find any place named

consequences, but why is janitorial service (otherwise known as my job) considered punishment? Why not put him in a coal mine or something? :hide:

Or should I be justifiably proud that I am doing "community service"

[alarimer]

15. That's a good idea

Some sort of community service at any rate.

[Ikonoklast]

11. Give the kid a break

He just wants to be an art critic when he grows up.

[Bucky]

12. Man, they should make him pay it off out of his allowance.

"And don't you EVER do that again, young man. I'm serious!!"

[Bucky]

13. Here's the painting "Before"

and after

[LisaL]

14. 1.5 million dollars wasted.

I think a five year old could do better than that. Or at least to the same standard.