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The awkward moment when your museum finds that a local facebook page has been cheerfully copy/pasting your facebook events to create Their Own event pages, because they think it'll help your events reach more people. What is mainly seems to do is reach people, confuse them, and make them frustrated over unanswered questions in the event discussion section. Why didn't we answer your question on the event page? We weren't notified about a question on the event page. There isn't a question on the event page. Oh, that's a link to an event page which isn't ours. But looks exactly like our event page... Road to hell, best intentions, paving, and all that.  I must not do this if we remodel the museum in the future. I must not do this if we remodel the museum in the future. I must not do this if we remodel the museum in the future.   When you point out in a sudden panic to a colleague "DON'T PUT YOUR HAND THERE!" and then have to chisel lumps of dried on nasal matter from an exhibition wall.
 I’m not saying that these wouldn’t happen at other times of the year, just that they certainly happened during the school summer break at our museum.
More museum holiday fun? Find out what I've overheard in the holidays here. I thought it was a piece of paper on the floor of the museum. I honestly thought I was just picking up a receipt or a crunched up ticket. That was why I blithely picked it up. And then froze as I pondered "Why is this paper wet?" AND IT WAS HAM.   A previous venue I worked at had some offices in the older refurbished areas of the building, as well as the newly built extension. They were cramped, but very beautiful as a work space. One staff member had regular "visitors", as her office was the first door at the very top of the main stair case.
To get to the top of the stairs, people had to actively climb over or unclip two rope barriers, and squeeze around or move a Private sign on a freestanding post. On one occasion, she had to ask a visitor if they would delete the photo they had just taken of her sitting at her desk.
 Sketch done at the British Museum, of two of the many offenders happy to be trampled come an evacuation.
I chose these two as they were sat slap bang by the signs, and couldn't have not seen them when sitting down. When someone vandalises your ancient monument, would you want to: A) Imprison them. B) Fine them. C) Get them to do community service on the site. D) Get them to write a research paper on the site, so they have to look into it's history, religious and societal significance, and then explain what they have learnt about it. Kudos to the manager of Serpent Mound, and the local Assistant Prosecutor, who think that A is unlikely, B won't change any attitudes, so want C and D to happen.
Daniel Coleman Dargavell allegedly jumped the curb in the parking lot in the middle of the night over the Fourth of July weekend and attempted to drive a large white pickup over a 2,000-year-old Adena Mound.
Prison time – if he's found guilty – is a long shot, said Armstrong of the prosecutor's office, who is unsure whether he'll ask that Dargavell do any time. "Someone else, a family member likely, is going to pay the restitution up front," Armstrong said, "but I want (Dargavell) to have a significant investment in this, that would mostly be community service." Sometimes, when things like this happen, the party that was vandalized never wants to see the vandal again, Armstrong said. Not Serpent Mound manager Goodwin. "In fact, they were already coming up with a list of things they want him to do," Armstrong said. Story pulled from here. |
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