This story about a butter-fingered museum curator at Wu Wei City Museum* reminded HostelBloggers of a dark time in our past when we committed a similar act of cultural vandalism.

It was back in the golden days of university, when long, idle afternoons seemed to stretch away forever. After a typically boozy lunch, we headed down to the city art gallery with the intention of spending a couple of hours drifting about.

Anyway, on the first floor at the time was a low-lying art installation in the shape of a beaver eating some sort of electrical appliance. Not really looking where we were going, we walked straight into the artwork and – with an almighty crash - sent it sprawling across the room, knocking its tail off in the process.

To our abiding shame, we quickly secured the tail back onto the poor creature and beat a hasty retreat…

Phew! We’ve said it. It’s out there. And if anyone from the art gallery in question is reading this – we’re very sorry. We never meant to break the beaver. And we’ll never do it again.

*(Although it originally broke at Ananova, HostelBloggers got wind of this story over on Jaunted.com. That’s twice in a week, Jaunted – nice work!)