Occasionally — as News of the Weird has reported previously — patrons of art galleries mistake ordinary objects as the actual art.
For example, solemnly “contemplating” a broom inadvertently left behind by a janitor — and sometimes the opposite mistake occurs.
At the Boijmans van Beuningen museum in Rotterdam, a wandering patron absent-mindedly traipsed through a re-creation of Wim T. Schippers’ floor-level Peanut Butter Platform — a 40-square-foot installation of creamy spread.
The museum manager had declined to fence in the exhibit, which he said would spoil its beauty.
And it
was a
step up
Homeless Charles Mader, a convicted sex offender in Albuquerque, was arrested for failure to report his change of address, as required by law.
Mader had moved out of his registered address, which was a dumpster, into a community shelter.
Is that
from the
King James
version?
Robert Norton Kennedy, 51, was arrested in Horry County, S.C., and charged with assault and battery, despite the humble tattoo on his forehead referencing a Bible verse and reading, “Please forgive me if I say or do anything stupid.”
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