If you encountered a sign that read, “DO NOT SIT”… what would you do? Heed the warning and not sit OR be an a-hole, tourist and do the opposite just for the opportunity to click a vacation selfie?
Well there’s no entertainment in not sitting so here we go again with entitled, ignorant, stupid tourist behavior.
Let’s start here – the chair was clearly marked with a sign warning visitors NOT to sit on it. And let’s end here. A pair of tourists at the Maffei Palace art museum in Verona, Italy broke a priceless chair because they wanted to snap a photo.
The chair is known as the “Van Gogh Chair” and is adorned with hundreds of Swarovski crystals.
Surveillance footage inside the museum shows a man and woman waiting for security to leave the room before posing with the chair. First the woman squatted above the chair, pretending to sit on it, just like any woman using a porta potty – gotta’ engage those Kegels ma’am . Then the real highlight of the CCTV footage, the man went to do the same fake-sit, only he actually sat down on it. And due to the delicate nature of the bedazzled chair (and the man’s overweight stature) the chair crumbled beneath him.
The couple then realized they would probably be on the line for the damages to a crystal encrusted chair and other cultural fines and decided to quickly exit the room stage right and, not surprisingly, never told the staff.
In the aftermath of the incident, the museum’s social media accounts released a statement describing the ‘nightmare’ situation.
[YouTube: Euronews Culture] [The Daily Mail]
