Security cameras at a Taiwan art exhibition captured the moment a 12-year-old tripped and punched a hole in a $1.5 million oil painting. Security footage shows the beverage-holding boy tripping next to the still life and putting his fist through the bottom of the canvas before freezing in apparent horror at his mistake. Sun Chi-hsuan, the exhibit’s organizer, said the boy’s family will not be charged for restoration costs and the $1.5 million painting was insured. A post on the exhibition’s Facebook page thanked restoration specialist Tsai Shun-jen for helping to quickly restore the 350-year-old painting. The post included photos of the experts working to repair the canvas.
A central Florida woman is in serious trouble after police say she tried to hire her former son-in-law to kill his ex-wife’s homeless boyfriend. Police say Pamela Vanorsdale wanted Dylan Loveless dead because her grandchildren came home with lice. Police learned of the plot when Daniel Dionne told an officer his former mother-in-law asked him to “pop” the boyfriend with a .25-caliber handgun. Reports show the woman suggested Dionne dump the body in South Carolina. Vanorsdale is out of jail on bail. Records don’t show whether she’s hired a lawyer. Police say she admitting asking Dionne to kill Loveless, but claims she was joking.