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30 May 2022, 12:07 pm

Climate Activist Disguised as an Old Lady in a Wheelchair Throws Custard Pie at the Mona Lisa

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Museum goers at the Louvre in Paris got an eyeful—make that a pieful—on Sunday when a supposed climate activist posing as an elderly woman in a wheelchair tried to deface Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa with a cream pie.

The unnamed man had used the wheelchair to gain a front row position at the crowded exhibit, which is protected by bulletproof glass after previous attempts to harm the painting.

Museum goers say he jumped out of the wheelchair and first tried to break the security glass before taking a cream pie he had somehow hidden from what is truly some of the tightest security in Europe, and smeared it across the glass while yelling in French, “Think of the earth, people are destroying the earth. Think about it. Artists tell you: think of the Earth. That’s why I did this.”

He then threw roses he had also somehow smuggled into the museum into the crowd and below the painting. Security escorted him from the building and it is unclear if he was charged with attempting to harm one of the world’s great masterpieces.

The painting was not affected, though the bullet proof glass appeared to have been shaken in video posted on social media of the incident.


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30 May 2022, 12:30 pm

Bad aim. He missed her face entirely.



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30 May 2022, 12:31 pm

Why custard I wonder.


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30 May 2022, 12:47 pm

This thread is making me hungry.



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30 May 2022, 1:13 pm

Misslizard wrote:
Why custard I wonder.


He was taking a stand. A last stand!



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30 May 2022, 6:52 pm

It’s a sin to waste food.I wish I had a custard pie right now, what a waste of pie.


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01 Jun 2022, 6:33 am

Misslizard wrote:
It’s a sin to waste food.I wish I had a custard pie right now, what a waste of pie.


Quite slapstik ins't it.



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01 Jun 2022, 7:16 am

Considering a banana duct taped to a wall sold for $120k, a well enough known artist could probably sell a custard pie thrown at a canvas for a fortune.



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01 Jun 2022, 10:43 am

"The Earth is dying so I'm going to ruin the most famous painting in the whole world, that'll show them."
Yeah, that makes perfectly good sense. :roll:

I've heard that a lot of great artists were mad, but this guy is a few sandwiches short of a picnic.



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01 Jun 2022, 10:44 am

Matrix Glitch wrote:
Considering a banana duct taped to a wall sold for $120k, a well enough known artist could probably sell a custard pie thrown at a canvas for a fortune.


The banana thing is proof on how demented this society has become.



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01 Jun 2022, 12:11 pm

lostonearth35 wrote:
Matrix Glitch wrote:
Considering a banana duct taped to a wall sold for $120k, a well enough known artist could probably sell a custard pie thrown at a canvas for a fortune.


The banana thing is proof on how demented this society has become.


I hope some lunatic throws a banana cream pie at it.



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01 Jun 2022, 12:49 pm

I honestly don't see the point it's not even the real painting, just unnecessary drama no one is going to listen to. People never see the message behind these types of actions they're more just shocked someone could be so low to try to ruin a piece of history.

If they want to send a clear message then they need to do chaotic good like chop off a dictators head then give their message lol


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01 Jun 2022, 1:54 pm

Lunella wrote:
I honestly don't see the point it's not even the real painting, just unnecessary drama no one is going to listen to. People never see the message behind these types of actions they're more just shocked someone could be so low to try to ruin a piece of history.

If they want to send a clear message then they need to do chaotic good like chop off a dictators head then give their message lol


That's pretty harsh. Couldn't they just throw a pie at one instead?



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01 Jun 2022, 2:15 pm

Sadly I don't think pies are gonna do much in the way of an angry dictator, although if you make Kim Jong Un eat a few more pies he might pop which would be a decent result. :lol:


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01 Jun 2022, 2:18 pm

:lol: What? How does Mona Lisa have anything to do with the environment?



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01 Jun 2022, 3:12 pm

Talk of pie hits reminds me of...