Kicker: Banana vandal

NICK EICHER, HOST: Maybe you remember the banana and duct tape artwork. Remember, a 15-cent banana and less than a dime’s worth of tape? We all thought it was a joke, but a wealthy aficionado paid $120-thousand dollars for it.

Well, a museum in South Korea has an iteration of that artwork on display, and last week it had to do some major art restoration after a guest vandalized the piece.

SOUND: [SOMEONE SHOUTING IN KOREAN]

Roughly translated a museum employee is basically saying, what do you think you’re doing? What followed was a college student pulls the banana off the wall, peels it, and starts eating. He then taped the banana peel back in place.

Noh Huyn-soo later told KBS News that he regretted skipping breakfast that morning, and said, “isn’t it taped there to be eaten?”

The museum decided not to press charges, and within 30 minutes it had a fresh banana taped in place. Turns out, the museum changes the artwork every few days just in case you didn’t know bananas don’t stay yellow very long. So Mr. Noh may have been doing the curators a favor by eating the banana.

So, maybe we found it appalling, but he found it appealing.

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