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Boy accidentally smashes 3,500-year-old jar on museum visit (www.bbc.com)
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[-] WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca 92 points 3 weeks ago

Putting an object out where patrons can interact with it one thing... putting out jars that are surprisingly intact after 3 and a half millennia is just damned irresponsible if you ask me.

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 34 points 3 weeks ago

I was ready for the problem to be a rambunctious, misbehaving child - but the kid was only "curious about what was inside"? That’s just a kid being a kid. I can’t blame a 4 year old for that. I think the museum handled it well.

[-] gencha@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago

Can't blame the kid. The parents however...

[-] TeutonenThrasher@feddit.org 34 points 3 weeks ago

The best part:

The Hecht Museum in Haifa told the BBC the crockery dated back to the Bronze Age between 2200 and 1500BC - and was a rare artefact because it was so intact.

The boy's father Alex said they will feel "relieved" to see the jar restored but added they are "sorry" because "it will no longer be the same item".

Man. Shit happens!

[-] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago

If that jar was so important, it should be behind bullet proof glass. It probably had a postit nearby that said "do not touch". I blame whoever had that jar in their care.

[-] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

I blame the parents for letting their kid play unobserved around such precious items

[-] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

The jar of Alexius

[-] capt_wolf@lemmy.world 33 points 3 weeks ago

Eye witness accounts say the child's mother was heard shouting "Hey!" and "Listen!" but the boy disregarded her. One witness told the press, "All I heard was 'HYAAAAH' before the crash. Kid looked like he was searching for something."

[-] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 31 points 3 weeks ago

Is his name Link?

[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

It's just gonna respawn, what's the big deal?

[-] danekrae@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago

a trip to a museum in Israel.

So lovely that you can't even tell a genocide is happening.

[-] garpujol@discuss.online 3 points 3 weeks ago

We all know.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

What's the genocide-apologist analogue to copaganda called?

[-] adam_y@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago

"The jar was accidentally damaged by a young child visiting the museum, and the response will be accordingly."

Well, that's their nearest hospital getting bombed then.

[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 6 points 3 weeks ago

"The response will be accordingly"?

The response should be what the fuck do you expect from a young child?

[-] blackfire@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Thats basically what they are saying in posh.

[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago

Good to know. I only speak English and bad English. I also live in America so I expect everything anyone does to be ridiculous and cruel.

[-] unmagical@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 weeks ago

I'm glad they're not making a big deal about this, cause shit happens sometimes, but why did a parent allow their child to get into a situation of tipping over the jar to see what's inside in the first place?

[-] Cagi@lemmy.ca 24 points 3 weeks ago

All it takes is a few seconds of looking away, something even the best parents do. Especially at a museum. "Look at this, honey" crash.

[-] ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 15 points 3 weeks ago

When I had two kids I would think the same and that’s because my kids were well behaved and so I could just judge other parents. Then I had my third kid and shit went sideways somewhere and now I can understand these parents. Then I had my fourth kid and realize that I am now one of these parents.

[-] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

I never understand people that have too many kids, it's like someone saying 'so I gambled all my money away and now I'm broke which I'm going to make your problem'

If you choose to have too many kids to keep under control then you don't get to go to places where kids need to be kept under control unless you have people there to help you.

[-] ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

Kid 1: Pull out method is a lie

Kid 2: On purpose

Kid 3: On purpose

Kid 4: Pull out method is a lie

My kids are 15, 11, 4 and 3. I was mostly saying my first response as tongue in cheek. My oldest plays high school football and second oldest is on 2 travel soccer teams.

Don’t really have time to do much outside of sports. We mostly head up to cottage country in Canada during summers for vacations. No fucking way am I bringing them all to museum of all places lol.

[-] prex@aussie.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

I didn't read the article but:

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