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Posted By: jay behrens

The Mona Lisa example is not extreme. One of the card companies cut up the only pair of legpads that Terry Sawchuck wore during his entire career. Taking it fromt he other angle, the Mona Lisa is not the only work of art created by DaVinci, so why not cut it up? There are many other DaVinci artworks out there. Or how about tossing a Chippendale chair into a wood chipper and selling off the slivers. I doubt anyone would be lining up to to get a sliver of a Chippendale chair or other piece of expensive furniture. It would be pretty funny to people your house is decorated in Louis XIV furniture and then show then your collection of slivers hanging on the wall.

Sorry, but destroying something, whether it is art, sports equipment, etc is a bad thing as the context that made the item special is lost once you chop it up into little pieces.

Jay

I like to sit outside, drink beer and yell at people. If I did this at home I would be arrested, so I go to baseball games and fit right in.