Selfie-taker knocks over and smashes 126-year-old statue

One wonders how future generations will look back on the dawn of 'selfie' photography, the ubiquitous habit that seems to increasingly play a role in all walks of modern life, from politics to travel. Presumably not favourably, if its impact on human behaviour stays its course. The most recent evidence of it is a young man who climbed the façade of the Rossio train station in Lisbon to take a selfie with a statue of once-ruler of Portugal Dom Sebastiao, only to knock over the free-standing sculpture over and watch it shatter on the ground below. The 24-year-old, who has not been named by police, attempted to flee the scene but was stopped by officers and is expected to appear before a judge. A spokesperson for Infrastructure Portugal did not know when the statue would be fixed. continue