DETROIT - A 12-year-old visitor to the Detroit Institute of Arts stuck a wad of gum to a $1.5 million painting, leaving a stain the size of a quarter, officials say.
The boy was part of a school group from Holly, Mich., that visited the museum on Friday, officials say. They say he took a piece of Wrigley’s Extra Polar Ice gum out of his mouth and stuck it on Helen Frankenthaler’s “The Bay,” an abstract painting from 1963.
The museum acquired the work in 1965 and says it is worth about $1.5 million.
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Boy uses $1.5 million painting for gum parker
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*snickers quietly* 
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hypocrites are some of the most annoying people on earth
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They should make him pay the price of the painting. His parants would be proud. 
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Boy uses $1.5 million painting for gum parker
Stupid kid.
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Never argue with an idiot. They will bring you down to their level and beat you with experience every time.
Boy uses $1.5 million painting for gum parker
thats funny ...in a sad way
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Boy uses $1.5 million painting for gum parker
“Even though we give very strict guidelines on proper behavior and we hold students to high standards, he is only 12 and I don’t think he understood the ramifications of what he did before it happened, but he certainly understands the severity of it now,” said Kildee.
Are 12 year olds really too young to understand that you don't stick your gum on a painting? I think most 12 year olds would know better.
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Are 12 year olds really too young to understand that you don't stick your gum on a painting? I think most 12 year olds would know better.
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lol yeah no kidding. when I was 12, I was much smarter then that. Then again, my parents did think I was building a bomb in the basement at around that age... I was kind of the physco type smart. turned out to be a knex electro magnet though but guess it looked like a bomb lol.
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