Feeling fragile ... Have you ever
destroyed anything priceless?
Photograph: Arthur Tsang/AP
One minute you're walking down the stairs of a museum minding your own business, the next you've destroyed a priceless collection of antiquities, writes Paul MacInnes.
That's the fate which befell one unnamed man last weekend as a rogue untied shoelace sent him tumbling down a set of stairs at the Fitzwilliam museum in Cambridge and into three 300-year-old Chinese vases. The vases smashed, the incident was caught on camera, and all the man could do was point at the shoelace and say, repeatedly: "there's the culprit".
To commemorate this moment, and in solidarity with the unknown stumbler, we'd like you to share your stories of calamity. Have you ever smashed something priceless? Ever stained an antique rug, poured a bottle of Chateau Lafitte down the sink or scratched an antique Bentley with the back of your bike? If so, now's the time to own up - just post away in the comments section below.
All anecdotes of smashing, tinkling, breaking and bashing are gratefully received - and could feature in tomorrow's G2 section of the newspaper. 17th-century Qing dynasty vases will not be offered as a prize. For your own safety, you understand.
