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Tourist climbs Brussels statue, breaks it (www.bbc.com)

submitted 9 months ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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The statue, outside the Brussels stock exchange, had just been restored at great cost.

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[-] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 105 points 9 months ago

*looks at article

OH THANK FUCKING GOD! He wasn't American

[-] gianni@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

What article? lol

Screenshot

[-] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

Click the “Read description” part.

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 61 points 9 months ago

Truly shocked he wasn't either American or Australian, but I guess Irish makes sense too.

[-] catarina@kbin.social 18 points 9 months ago

An Irish mad lad

[-] Dontfearthereaper123@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

Nah that's just a normal irish lad

[-] khannie@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

NOOOOOOO! Gobshite. :/

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Or Chinese.

[-] nul9o9@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

It's usually always American or Chinese.

[-] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

I was guessing American or English.

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 months ago

Yep my money was on English for sure, lol.

[-] Blake@feddit.uk 21 points 9 months ago

The tourist looks like they’re a teenager, to me, like maybe 16 or so? Is it their parent holding the camera or what?

[-] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 45 points 9 months ago

He was arrested, and the company the statue belongs to is calling for him to pay the repair costs, not their parents, so maybe early 20s?

[-] Blake@feddit.uk 24 points 9 months ago

I’m getting old! I watch that video and think, “who let that kid play around on that statue?” and apparently he’s old enough to be criminally responsible haha.

[-] red@feddit.de 14 points 9 months ago

Legally he's old enough at 16 to be responsible, so they can't go after the parents

[-] sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works 14 points 9 months ago

[-] rockhstrongo@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

I wonder how many pieces it broke into. When it hits, it sounds like it shattered.

[-] ThatHermanoGuy@midwest.social 13 points 9 months ago

Chop off his hand as punishment. It's the only way.

[-] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

@mideast.social

[-] Comment105@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

The way we were, the other people would have grabbed him before he got halfway up and slapped him.

But people aren't like that anymore. They're all passive observers now, not * really* there.

[-] kamenlady@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Most be like, am i watching a video? In the cinema? VR headset? Am i truly here? Must be an influencer! It's all scripted!

Nevermind - the best thing i can do is film...

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 6 points 9 months ago

V;DW

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 9 months ago

Nothing some duct tape can't fix

[-] valkyre09@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

I think the artist who painted monkey Jesus is free if they want to book her

[-] ExLisper@linux.community 5 points 9 months ago

She's now the head of tourism office in her town so not really. Not kidding.

(Actually she's really old now and retired but she did get a job at the tourism office because her 'work' brought shitload of visitors to the town)

[-] Norgur@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

Let's hope the guy has insurance.... a good one.

[-] TheWoozy@lemmy.world 34 points 9 months ago

I'm not aware of insurance that covered illegal acts.

[-] maniacal_gaff@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Wait you guys don't have murder insurance??

[-] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

Not rich enough..

[-] yetAnotherUser@feddit.de 3 points 9 months ago

Although I'm only vaguely aware of the German laws, I don't think other EU nations' laws differ significantly.

Here's the corresponding law:

The insurer shall not be obligated to effect payment if the policyholder has intentionally and unlawfully caused the loss suffered by the third party.

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Since this was clearly negligence, I think they would be fine. After all, they didn't intend to damage the statue. Gross negligence is still negligence.