Oh dear… luckily – for the culprit – the incident was not caught on CCTV (Picture: Twitter/@erpugileromano)

In the global contest to capture the ultimate selfie, people are going to extreme lengths to put their own imaginative stamp on the concept.

However, we’re not sure the person responsible for this will be making his attempt public any time soon.

A student reportedly jumped up on a 19th century statue to take a picture of himself – but instead broke the sculpture.

Witnesses said the young man broke the leg off the Drunken Satyr as he climbed the sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan, Italy.


Staff discovered broken chunks of the statue on the ground but have been unable to track down the culprit because there was no CCTV in the area, RT reports.



Somewhat fortunately, the sculpture is a copy of an ancient Greek statue discovered in Rome 400 years ago. However, the copy is still thought to be extremely valuable.

Images of the damaged sculpture appeared on Twitter showing remains of the crumbled leg on the ground.

A guy climbs on a statue of the famous Milan Brera Academy of Art to take a selfie & snaps off a leg via @Linkiesta pic.twitter.com/DlkZYFdQIX — dublinist (@dublinist) March 19, 2014