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Michael Di Iorio

Mona Lisa Was, How You Say, Vandaliséd By A French Man Disguised As An Old Woman With Cake

The beloved and severely underrated Mona Lisa, princess of Italy, has been smeared with cake. Well, her protective glass has been, thank Da Vinci. A French man staging an environmental protest smeared the cake on Monday. I simply must know what Mona Lisa has to do with anything. At about midday in the middle of Paris, a 36-year-old man disguised as an old woman in a wheelchair rolled right up to the historically-revered painting, got up and threw a cake right at it. According to onlookers, he also attempted to “smash the bulletproof glass”. My friend, you are going to need more than just a vanilla cake and the rage of the French to do that. Mona Lisa has endured far worse. After slamming the cake onto Mona’s impenetrable glass, the man then began to throw red roses onto the Louvre’s floor before he was apprehended by security. In the vid below you can see him safely getting escorted out of the building. Sounds about white.
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