BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 9 months agoPensioner caught on camera spraying graffiti on Margaret Thatcher statuemetro.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square55fedilinkarrow-up1348arrow-down110file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareHikingVetlinkfedilinkarrow-up24·edit-29 months agoIf it’s bronze, someone should hit it with a tomato based sauce. And the timing was probably intentional.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·9 months agoI don’t know if the timing was intentional or not. It’s not the first time it was appropriately vandalized. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/15/margaret-thatcher-statue-grantham-egged-within-hours-of-it-being-installed It was, as that article says, unveiled without ceremony. They knew people wouldn’t approve of it. I guess they hoped they wouldn’t notice it either.
minus-squareBolexForSoup@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoI’m guessing tomato eats away at it something?
minus-squareHikingVetlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoYeah, and there really isn’t a way to stop it.
minus-squareBolexForSoup@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoOh wow that’s interesting. Why is that?
minus-squareHikingVetlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoBronze disease usually doesn’t get spotted until it’s too late for the artifact. If caught early there is a chance to clean it, and prevent it from taking hold, but you need to know it’s a thing and that it was exposed.
If it’s bronze, someone should hit it with a tomato based sauce. And the timing was probably intentional.
I don’t know if the timing was intentional or not. It’s not the first time it was appropriately vandalized.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/15/margaret-thatcher-statue-grantham-egged-within-hours-of-it-being-installed
It was, as that article says, unveiled without ceremony. They knew people wouldn’t approve of it. I guess they hoped they wouldn’t notice it either.
I’m guessing tomato eats away at it something?
Yeah, and there really isn’t a way to stop it.
Oh wow that’s interesting. Why is that?
Bronze disease usually doesn’t get spotted until it’s too late for the artifact. If caught early there is a chance to clean it, and prevent it from taking hold, but you need to know it’s a thing and that it was exposed.
huh TIL thanks!