That feeling when you trip and punch a hole in a $1.5 million USD painting

While it is a fear that very well may have never occurred to large portions of the population, for the more clumsy amongst us, a trip to the museum can induce intense fears. Knocking over a sculpture, ripping a painting, sneezing on the Mona Lisa; these are all long shots, but still, potentially expensive mistakes.

And, this exact, if obscure, fear of ruining expensive works of art was caught on tape this week. On a recent field in trip to a museumin Taiwan, an unidentified student took a digger straight into a painting by Pablo Porpora, which is valued at a cool million and a half dollars. Using his right hand, and the very center of the canvas to brace his fall, this young student found himself in quite the scenario, and, as the video below will show, he handles it pretty calmly.

Amazing. Fortunately for the student, he and his family will not be responsible for the damage, as it was clearly an accident. However, in a post on their Facebook page, the museum said that the ‘damage may not be able to be reversed.’

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