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TIFU by dropping 100,000 dollars worth of Salvador Dali originals.

This was years ago but one time i was contacted by a film maker who was making a surreal short film for an exhibition of Salvador Dali type artworks that was touring Australia at the time. He asked to be able to use my centipedes, tarantulas and scorpions for an extra bit of edge to his content and i'm an invertebrate zoologist and breeder of these animals so i obliged. He came over, got some clips and we got along quite well so he asked if i wanted to come and be part of the exhibit.

So, as is the custom; i arrive on the day with a suitcase full of tarantulas not knowing what to expect of the event and i walk in through the front doors and ask a staff looking person where to go. He directs me toward a spiral staircase at the front of the club and at the top of these stairs was some cardboard/wood type panels, presumably to keep the public out so i pushed past a small gap and carried my suitcase between it. While i was walking away, the panel i had just passed fell to the floor so i turned around to see 6-7 other, identical panels with piece of artwork on them. Fuck.

I picked up the panel and some sketches were on the panelthankfully unbroken so i inspected to see how it was connected and how i could fix it but just then some guy walked into the room, realized what had happened and went off his head at me (unresonably so i thought at the time) i tried to hang around to rectify the situation but he was quite angry and i later found out his reasoning was quite understandable because he was the head curator of the event and later when we got into a chat i asked if there were any actual original Dali's in the building. He informed me that there was, they were the ones i dropped, roughly 100,000 Australian dollars worth. Obviously i became a lot more apologetic than before and asked if he was insured haha.

TLDR: Took a suitcase full of tarantulas to a Salvador Dali exhibition, pushed past a makeshift fence i thought was meant to keep the public out of the exhibiting areas later to find out there was 100,000 dollars of Salvador Dali sketches on the part of fence that i dropped.

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