Chewing Gum Vandalism

Of course this would happen at my local Detroit Institute of Art...

"Boy, 12, Sticks Gum on $1.5M Painting"

some choice quotes:

"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."

I'm sure we've all had the temptation with an abstract painting...

The gum stuck to the painting's lower left corner and did not adhere to the fiber of the canvas, officials told the Detroit Free Press. But it left a chemical residue about the size of a quarter, said Becky Hart, assistant curator of contemporary art.

"chemical residue"? It's called "spit."

"Holly Academy director Julie Kildee said the boy had been suspended from the charter school and says his parents also have disciplined him."

Yeah, that should give him something to chew on...