*looks at article
OH THANK FUCKING GOD! He wasn't American
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Truly shocked he wasn't either American or Australian, but I guess Irish makes sense too.
An Irish mad lad
Nah that's just a normal irish lad
I was guessing American or English.
Yep my money was on English for sure, lol.
The tourist looks like they’re a teenager, to me, like maybe 16 or so? Is it their parent holding the camera or what?
He was arrested, and the company the statue belongs to is calling for him to pay the repair costs, not their parents, so maybe early 20s?
I’m getting old! I watch that video and think, “who let that kid play around on that statue?” and apparently he’s old enough to be criminally responsible haha.
Legally he's old enough at 16 to be responsible, so they can't go after the parents
V;DW
Part of me is like, poor statue, how terrible.
Part of me is like, screw Belgium. Until they even the karmic scales for what they did to the Congo, they deserve everything they get.
Chop off his hand as punishment. It's the only way.
The way we were, the other people would have grabbed him before he got halfway up and slapped him.
But people aren't like that anymore. They're all passive observers now, not * really* there.
People are going to climb statues. The owners should have made sure it was durable enough to be left in an accessible location. The kid did nothing wrong.
Or... OR... you can expect people to not be fucking idiots.
Yeah, that'll work.
He wasn’t a kid; he was drunk.
And the building is now a museum to Belgian beer, so…
He's still a kid.