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    4-Jähriger zerschlägt versehentlich Gefäß aus der Bronzezeit im Museum


    4-Jähriger zerschlägt versehentlich Gefäß aus der Bronzezeit im Museum

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/28/style/israel-haifa-museum-boy-breaks-artifact-hnk-intl/index.html

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    1. ChanceryTheRapper on

      Fuck I would panic. I’m glad the museum seems to be relatively calm and understanding about it.

    2. KeySpace333 on

      This is why I think those leashes for children should be mandatory.

    4. FrozenToonies on

      The museum made a statement that they leave many attractions open to the public without protection around them. They made clear that it would be restored as best as possible and they gave no blame to the family and offered a private tour to them after the fact.

      The museum admitted it was fully aware it could’ve put protections around the piece but chose not to, because it didn’t want to create that environment and accepted the risk.

      The family accepted guilt and knows the artifact won’t be same.

      It’s a jar, it’s also about a family with a young child.

      Adults destroy more than children ever will.

    8. OnePercentVisible on

      I am just wondering why an ancient object was a. elevated, b. not behind some sort of barrier like a rope or a rail. It was just as could have just as easily been destroyed by an earthquake on that stand they have set up.

    9. GothicDreamer16 on

      I know they don’t blame the family but I can’t believe they offered them a private tour after their child broke an artifact. Kind of weird to award that behavior.

    10. glidespokes on

      Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. This jar was destroyed the moment they placed it in an accessible spot.

    11. HansBooby on

      let a 4yr old near a priceless artefact? sounds like a museum problem.

    13. SalamanderCrazy1871 on

      I wonder how many jars have been broken by children throughout history. Probably millions. It’s funny to think about that one jar making it through thousands of years of history just to meet such a mundane fate.

      It’s a bit sad, but it’s also kind of cute to think about modern day children interacting with artifacts in the exact same way as ancient children.

    16. Chajos on

      Funnily enough that accident is now also part of the history of that piece. 🙂

    18. 123DaddySawAFlea on

      I was at the maritime museum in Madrid. Little kid pushed over an old glass covered binnacle. I thought all shit would break loose, but museum staff were less concerned about it than the parents.

    19. Shachar2like on

      Kids. I wonder if whomever originally created this expected this thing to last 3,500 years.

      It’s like your phone somehow surviving for thousands of years into the future.

    20. Status-Carpenter-435 on

      That’s the worst part of going to a museum they’re always thick with smelly dirty screaming feral children

    21. Raesh771 on

      They should have been properly fined. That would teach them a lesson.

    22. Ora_00 on

      Completely the museum’s fault. Why would a jar like that be somewhere where a child could get to it?
      Well, some of the blame is also the parents that let the kid do it.

    23. sheldonlives on

      “Hey, let’s take our 4 yr old, who will never remember or enjoy it, to a museum where he can break some really expensive stuff.” “OK, because we really shouldn’t stop doing what we want to do just because we had kids right?”. Lousy parents FFS.

    24. druscarlet on

      Children can go awry in a heart beat. The museum should have protected the display better.

    25. DaymD on

      Wow, the museum seems cool about it eh ?
      That’s interesting considering i just saw news of another kid who broke something in a museum and now the parents owe them 130k.

    26. dendarkjabberwock on

      I visited this museum – it is very nice place.

      Also in Israel people are very laid back about children. All floor in another museum in Haifa is made specially for children. So sometimes they are very loud and climb all other things and parent do not stop them.

    28. Regular-Nebular-86 on

      What’s will all the automatic kid hate??

      This kid didn’t run around yelling, screaming, he wated to know what was inside and grabbed the jar.

      Even if his parent was right next to him, grabbing something takes, what, a split second?

      That doesn’t mean he’s badly behaved or parented either! He’s four. He’s got a super curious, little human brain, and when he sees something, grabbing it is the first instinct. His parents could be the best parents in the world, and this could happen. *Because he is four!*

      And I say that as a consciously child free history geek!

      If something is super valuable, protect it. The museum chose not to. The museum chose *not to even put up signs asking not to touch the exhibits!* The museum is chill about it.

      Let it go and leave the kid and the parents alone.

    29. ricky_hammers on

      Probably a replica and the museum doesn’t want to admit, for obvious reasons.

      Higher profile museums will have identical replicas made of certain items displayed. Which I always thought was a little wack.

    30. Panda_tears on

      Where does this lineup with monkey pox popping up all over the planet?  Did this kid doom us all?  Do we need to make a movie about taking the pot shards to the center of the earth so the lizard people can repair it?  I… I have so many questions, someone hold me.

    31. FilmoreJive on

      So I’ve never seen this particular jar, but I assume my reaction would be

      Oh cool, old jar.

      Oh cool, this is the jar that some kid broke.

      Oh cool, looks like an old thing, all put together and such.

    33. benhereford on

      Imagining the parents’ perspective is crazy, but imagine the artist that MADE the jar…

      they had no idea some little kid would destroy their jar in 3,500 years

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