Watch a Clumsy 12-Year-Old Trip, Rip a Hole in $1.5 Million Painting

By Published On: August 25, 2015Last Updated: August 25, 2015

Watch your step, kid.

The video above shows a 12-year-old boy in Taiwan trip and knock into a 350-year-old Paolo Porpora oil on canvas painting called Flowers. His stumble created a fist-sized hole in the painting, which is worth $1.5 million.

But, it doesn’t look like the kid is going to have to pay it.  The Guardian reports:

“The organizers will not ask the boy’s family to pay for the restoration costs, according to Focus Taiwan news. It said the exhibition organizer, Sun Chi-hsuan, said the boy was very nervous but should not be blamed and the painting, part of a private collection, was insured. …

“The exhibition, which also includes portraits of Leonardo, shows 55 paintings in Taiwan ‘gathered from the finest art collectors in the world’, according to the organizers.

” ‘All 55 paintings in the venue are authentic pieces and they are very rare and precious,’ a post on the exhibition’s Facebook page said. ‘Once these works are damaged, they are permanently damaged.’ ”

He will probably be more careful in the future.

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