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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 04:11 PM
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goddamn ratfink punk kid bastard!
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.
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Benfea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 04:12 PM
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1. He should be skinned alive with rusty butter knives. -NT
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 04:13 PM
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2. It's a really ugly painting
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 05:09 PM
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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
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 05:32 PM
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8. Not to mention the pink blob
;)
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 05:35 PM
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9. I am sorta wondering
how it could be damaged? Maybe he was chanelling the artist who inspired him to finish his work?
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anarch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 04:13 PM
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3. I say give him a choice of punishments:
Either pay for the painting ($1.5 million), or eat his own buttocks.
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Capn Sunshine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 04:14 PM
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4. that kid should do community service
Edited on Wed Mar-01-06 04:14 PM by Capn Sunshine
cleaning the rest rooms at that museum . Consequences is not a town in New Mexico, a fact lost on many indulged children these days
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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 05:01 PM
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5. agreed n/t
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 05:04 PM
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6. Consequences really isn't a town in New Mexico.
Truth or Consequences, however...
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 05:41 PM
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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"
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alarimer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 06:41 PM
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15. That's a good idea
Some sort of community service at any rate.
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Ikonoklast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 06:28 PM
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11. Give the kid a break
He just wants to be an art critic when he grows up.
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 06:32 PM
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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!!"
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 06:36 PM
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13. Here's the painting "Before"


and after

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LisaL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 06:37 PM
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14. 1.5 million dollars wasted.
Edited on Wed Mar-01-06 06:38 PM by lizzy
I think a five year old could do better than that. Or at least to the same standard.
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