You break it, you buy it. That'll be $132,000.

[Wayoftheredpanda]

One time I was in a museum, in the dinosaur area, looking at a T-Rex skeleton. While I was looking at it, this kid who looked about eleven leaned over the base the skeleton was standing on and touched its foot. He must've thought no one was looking because when he turned his head and saw I that I had seen him do it, he ran away with a scared look on his face. I wonder where he is now.

 

[swiftdog2.0]

Parents are responsible.

They let their kid go free range in a museum. Bad idea.

Maybe the kid could take over the Mayhen role in in those TV commercials?

 

[FlakeNoir]

Thank you for all your comments.

Just some of my goofy observations:

the mom claims he had just graduated from kindergarten (I don't know how it's relevant) and that he was *hugging* the female sculpture. That's not what I saw. The kid was at first feeling up the forms breasts (enlarge your screen and look carefully.). THen tries to climb up the form and it starts to topple.

I have super mom powers but I can't be around the corner in another room and keep my eyes on my child=not supervising.

Yes, in hind sight it should have been secured a bit better BUT we don't usually think someone is going to feel up and try climbing a female bust. (Did y'all see what I did there? )

Word to mom, you're not helping your child.


Thank you!

The kid is 5-years old... and he's "feeling up the forms breasts"? Are you serious?
At most he was looking for handholds to climb... he's 5 years old.

Parents watch your kids and community centre don't be so silly as to display such an expensive statue without having it behind some kind of physical barrier.

 

[Sigmund]

Maybe this video shows a little bit clearer what I said.

5-year-old knocks over statue that cost six figures, sparking debate over who should have to pay for it

I see the boys hands on the forms breasts. One hand on each breast and then he stops. Then he seems to grab it at the bottom and it topples over.

 

[FlakeNoir]

Maybe this video shows a little bit clearer what I said.

5-year-old knocks over statue that cost six figures, sparking debate over who should have to pay for it

I see the boys hands on the forms breasts. One hand on each breast and then he stops. Then he seems to grab it at the bottom and it topples over.

It doesn't look any different to me in this video. He steps up, holds onto the statue by its only protruding parts, it tilts towards him, he lets go. He steps up and holds on again, looking very much like he wants to climb up, it falls on top of him.

I'm not understanding why you're seeming to be making it appear to be more than that? He's a 5-year-old child doing what 5-year-old children do when they're not being watched.

 

[Blake]

. I think if it was that expensive it should have been it a plastic dome. Settle out of court:$20,000. However, parents have a duty of care to look after their kids, you can't let kids run amok. My father when i was 4-6 took me with a kid's leash that was tied around by chest so I couldn't run off.

 

[Debbie913]

I think some fault can be found on both sides of this issue. But, had the parents been watching their kids, it most likely would not have happened. Five year old kids need supervision.

 

[FlakeNoir]

I think some fault can be found on both sides of this issue. But, had the parents been watching their kids, it most likely would not have happened. Five year old kids need supervision.

Agree 100%.

 

[Sigmund]

It doesn't look any different to me in this video. He steps up, holds onto the statue by its only protruding parts, it tilts towards him, he lets go. He steps up and holds on again, looking very much like he wants to climb up, it falls on top of him.

I'm not understanding why you're seeming to be making it appear to be more than that? He's a 5-year-old child doing what 5-year-old children do when they're not being watched.

Protruding parts being the breasts and I'm not trying to make it appear to be anything. I thought it was amusing when i saw it. Not the horseplay, because he shouldn't have been touching anything at all. And yes, he was playing like children do.

 

[FlakeNoir]

Protruding parts being the breasts and I'm not trying to make it appear to be anything. I thought it was amusing when i saw it. Not the horseplay, because he shouldn't have been touching anything at all. And yes, he was playing like children do.

We might have to agree to disagree on which direction you were heading in your posts while you were describing a small child "feeling up" the breasts on a statue.
Perhaps that phrasing means something different in your country? But I'd be surprised if it does... let's not debate that here though, it wouldn't belong on this kind of website.

We definitely do agree that the whole situation would have been avoided if he was being supervised.

 

[Sigmund]

Good afternoon!

I saw the article with the 5 year old above the same day I read this article

Teens Destroy 320,000,000 Years Of History In A Few Seconds, And The Way It Looks Now Infuriates Everyone

Apparently a group of young people/teens deliberately destroyed a natural rock formation for just...kicks and giggles, IDK But reading some of the comments it was 'these younger generations" and 'millennials'. But I'm thinking, is it the decade/generation they were born/ raised in?

What about when it's destruction by grown-ups? Grown ups with children of their own? These two grown men, Boy Scout Leaders (One of the men had his teen son with him during the vandalism) taped it and posted it.

Ex-Boy Scout leaders involved in pushing over ancient rock charged - CNN

I don't think it's so much what year/decade you were born as opposed to how you were raised. JMO.



The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

--Attributed to SOCRATES by Plato, according to William L. Patty and Louise S. Johnson, Personality and Adjustment, p. 277 (1953)

Thank you, all!

 

[JMR]

I Know being a mom myself. If we where inside anywhere my kid was by my side until he was the age of ten. I was not much of fun mom. But I taught him there inside types walk and play and outside type of walk and play. Never touch anything unless belongs to you. Here a funny story...my son when he was six we took him to the History Museum to see some art and other things. I was holding his hand and I lean over rope just bit to read the card on this vase and guard scream at the top of his lungs Miss step back from the vase. I nearly fell over. My son thought was funny that I was one got yell at. But yes when your out with your kids you should watch them.

 

[Tery]

My daughter was raised to be polite, to stand up for anyone being bullied, to respect the environment and her elders. I was raised that way and I'm pleased and proud that my girl was, too.

 

[Blake]

Protruding parts being the breasts and I'm not trying to make it appear to be anything. I thought it was amusing when i saw it. Not the horseplay, because he shouldn't have been touching anything at all. And yes, he was playing like children do.

After looking at the vedio again I think Sigmund is correct.

 

[skimom2]

I Know being a mom myself. If we where inside anywhere my kid was by my side until he was the age of ten. I was not much of fun mom. But I taught him there inside types walk and play and outside type of walk and play. Never touch anything unless belongs to you. Here a funny story...my son when he was six we took him to the History Museum to see some art and other things. I was holding his hand and I lean over rope just bit to read the card on this vase and guard scream at the top of his lungs Miss step back from the vase. I nearly fell over. My son thought was funny that I was one got yell at. But yes when your out with your kids you should watch them.

Same. My brothers and I were taught to respect others' things, and that's what I taught my kids. At one time, I regularly went all over town, including to art museums and community events, with my three oldest, two of my nieces, and often 2 friends (I had a pre-school)-so 5 to 7 kids-and all knew better than to touch. Hands in pockets when touching might be too tempting, and one hand on the in the supermarket( my adult daughter was just complaining that she still has to impulse to keep one hand on the cart when she shops with me--haha!) It doesn't take being mean. It's just being firm and consistent.

 

[Moderator]

Same. My brothers and I were taught to respect others' things, and that's what I taught my kids. At one time, I regularly went all over town, including to art museums and community events, with my three oldest, two of my nieces, and often 2 friends (I had a pre-school)-so 5 to 7 kids-and all knew better than to touch. Hands in pockets when touching might be too tempting, and one hand on the in the supermarket( my adult daughter was just complaining that she still has to impulse to keep one hand on the cart when she shops with me--haha!) It doesn't take being mean. It's just being firm and consistent.

My mother had me so well-trained not to touch anything when we were in stores that it took until I was in my mid-twenties before I could touch something in a store without feeling like I was going to get caught for doing something wrong.

 

[skimom2]

My mother had me so well-trained not to touch anything when we were in stores that it took until I was in my mid-twenties before I could touch something in a store without feeling like I was going to get caught for doing something wrong.

HAHAHAHA! I figure that once I had kids, my #1 job was to raise people who were respectful, decent, and not a suck on life So far, I've been pleased