What the hell is wrong with these people?!

Given the above headline, you figure I’m going to talk politics, right?  I mean, there’s plenty of stuff to talk about there, right?  Every day is a party when your “President” is Trump!

But no, that’s not what this is about.  From CNN.com and written by Ellie Kauffman and Ben Westcott, we have the story of how a very dumb (American, alas) museum goer decided to take a very, very valuable souvenir while visiting a museum…

Chinese angry after terracotta warrior’s thumb stolen in U.S.

As per usual, I really don’t want to give away everything from the article, but I will spoil parts of it…

The Chinese loaned Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute a few of their famous terracotta figures (the article is unclear as to how many, but they had at least one warrior and one horse figure).

Here’s a photograph of some of the terracotta warriors that were dug up…

…and here’s a photograph of the piece whose thumb was snapped off by a fool who is identified in the above article:

After confronting the vandal, they found two pictures on a cellphone which were taken concurrently when he was around the objects.  As you can see, the concurrent pictures show the figure with, then without, a thumb.

So, shame on him.

I have to say, though: This is far from unusual.

Go to any historical building, say an arena or fortress, and you’re likely to find graffiti on the walls, some of which might have been made when the structure was in use, some of which was likely made later on.

While I don’t do it (hey, some of us pride ourselves on being perfect!