Everyone knows that terrible feeling when you drop a glass or plate and it smashes
thankfully those accidents normally only cost around ten dollars to fix but just imagine how
you would feel if you destroyed priceless art by accident well that's exactly what's happened to
the people in these videos from artworks to priceless pieces of history being destroyed
selfie disaster we all know the struggle of getting that perfect selfie but one day
a woman took her selfie composition a little bit too seriously and ended up destroying two
hundred thousand dollars worth of art this took place at the 14th factory art exhibition in los
angeles california this is a non-profit and very famous art exhibition on the 14th of june 2017
a woman went to this gallery she entered one of the gallery's main rooms this had various pieces
of expensive art on plinths on the plinths were crowns made of gold silver and marble some of the
pieces were even made out of real meteorite stones the woman was naturally fascinated by this and
decided to take a selfie while she was trying to get her composition right she stumbled backwards
this led to a domino effect as many of the plinths fell down one of the gallery workers who witnessed
this put his arms up in despair next time you think you messed up just remember this clip
however unlucky you got it can't be as bad as this woman priceless clock this video comes from
the national watch and clock museum in columbia pennsylvania an elderly couple were fascinated by
a priceless large clock hanging on the wall they took a picture of the clock but that wasn't enough
for them the man ignored a big do not touch sign and instead touched the priceless clerk
as soon as he does this the clock falls off the wall and smashes on the floor the husband
and wife try to hang the clock back on the wall but it's beyond repair eventually they give up
and simply lean the clock up against the wall the clock was made from various very complicated parts
and no one knew exactly how to put it back together after the incident the watch and
clock museum tweeted saying this is why we beg you not to touch things in museums
they share their youtube link to the cctv footage shaming the couple last remaining phonograph
this mishap was not just caught on camera but broadcast live on tv it comes from an episode
of the tech talk techathon one of the guests is showing a one of the kind phonograph created by
thomas edison himself a phonograph was one of the first ways that sound was ever recorded
the guest begins by saying it's a one of a kind piece and there's nothing
like it in the world so this is a one-of-a-kind piece there's no other one like this particular
one in the world just as he's showing off edison's phonograph tube it breaks
live on tv it's really cool because it it records much more accurately than oh
oh my god um well that does happen every once in a while that can't be good uh now is are you done
with that yeah i'm done with that all right you may think that's bad but it gets even worse when
you find out what the phonograph tube had on it contained inside it was the only copy of thomas
edison talking to president benjamin harrison in 1889 the host chris pirillo tries to keep calm and
says this does happen every once in a while but in reality this does not as it was a priceless
one of a kind this happened because the tube was in the cold outdoors but it was then brought into
a very hot studio the change in temperature caused the tube to become brittle and break into pieces
glass sculpture just imagine if you were at a museum with your kids and they started breaking
priceless artwork in most situations parents would pull their kids away and punish them but that is
the exact opposite of what this parent did in 2014 two kids crossed the dividing rope and began
destroying a sculpture they pulled and tugged on the glass sculpture breaking it but shockingly the
parents did not even try to stop them instead they took photos of their kids destroying the sculpture
this took place at the shanghai museum of glass in china the piece by shelley zhu was
called angel is waiting turns out the angel was waiting for two kids to come along and destroy it
the artist spent more than two years making this all from glass she also dedicated the piece to her
newborn daughter but sadly her newborn daughter will never get to see it that's because these two
kids destroyed it in front of their parents the damaged sculpture is still displayed at the museum
and next to it is a screen which plays the cctv of it being destroyed on a loop this is a good
way to remind museum goers to make sure their kids are behaving themselves painting puncher
we've all been there we were about to fall over but then grabbed something to stop ourselves
this is normally something like a hand railing but one small boy unfortunately stopped himself
tripping over by grabbing a 1.5 million dollar painting this happened in taiwan unfortunately the
painting was very fragile and the kid's fist went right through it the kid saved his can of soda
but in the process ruined a 1.5 million painting the painting was from the 1600s and was very rare
it was one of the few paintings by paulo papura that he actually signed funny to
think it survived hundreds of years only for one clumsy boy with a soda to destroy it statue hugger
this one takes place at a wedding reception it shows a child attempting to hug a piece
of artwork this happened in june of 2018 at the tomahawk ridge community center in overland park
kansas the statue aphrodite kansas city was created by bill lyons and it was worth
132 thousand dollars when the child tried to hug the statue it fell over and broke
now the kid was clearly unsupervised but in the youtube comments of this video many people blame
the kid himself and not the parents the woman's mother said it's clear accidents happen and this
was an accident but who do you think was in the wrong here the distracted parents the curious kid
or the community center for not securing the artwork properly
million dollar vase most of the damage in these videos are a result of accidents but
this one is no accident and it ended with the guy responsible being arrested in 2014 one florida man
was arrested this was for deliberately smashing a one million dollar vase the vase was made by
the artist ai weiwei maximo camonero was charged with criminal mischief in the footage museum staff
can be told telling him to stop but he drops the vase on the floor and it smashes into many pieces
the vases which had been painted were over 5 000 years old but after just a few months of
them being in miami they were destroyed by maximo sandcastle this one is a piece of sand art it is a
castle made of sand i don't mean a sandcastle like you may have made when you were a kid on the beach
no this work of art was meant to resemble hogwarts castle from harry potter
it took the man 17 days to make but that's when a reporter doing a story on the castle fell on it
she destroyed a fairly large portion of the castle the sand artist seemed calm on the surface but
i bet secretly he was incredibly annoyed at one point the reporter says maybe i can help
you fix it but that's when even her own cameraman tells her to leave the guy alone some people just
don't know when to stop ice sculpture this is very similar to the previous clip we just saw only this
time it's with ice art instead of sand a reporter is doing a story at an ice sculpting competition
the artist he's talking to says he's spent eight hours doing this sculpture but when the reporter
goes in for a closer look he makes a big mistake and knocks it over so we'll be some other pieces
that are recognizable now can i take a closer look at this because why is this your pro oh
my god i am so sorry i i am i'm so sorry dude are you serious i'm so sorry it was just an accident
we'll talk to management i'm i'm shutting it i'm tired of guys like this i'm out of here
i will we'll get this taken care of
it even seems like the reporter laughs as he destroys this guy's work
the artist James Marshall was rightly annoyed and stormed off
i think it's safe to say if you're making any sculpture do not let reporters go anywhere near it
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