If you're going to buck social norms at a museum and take a selfie, at least make sure your footing is secure. A visitor to the 14th Factory in Los Angeles, California, learned this the hard way when she damaged $200,000 worth of art during a photo session.

The woman was attempting to take a selfie while kneeling in front of a row of sculptures displayed on pedestals, when she lost her balance and knocked into the artwork directly behind her, causing a cringe-inducing domino effect. At least 10 pedestals were knocked over as a result and, according to the museum, three sculptures were "permanently damaged," Mashable reports.

As the museum's website states, "the 14th Factory is a monumental, multiple-media, socially engaged art and documentary experience conceived by the Hong Kong-based British artist Simon Birch... where Birch and his 20 creative collaborators work and manufacture their art, creating an ever-changing immersive environment of 14 interlinked spaces comprised of video, installation, sculpture, paintings and performance."

In this case, the partially destroyed exhibit is Hyperfine, says Mashable, which displays a series of crowns, each uniquely crafted (and thus, we assume, varied in pricing). "Some [crowns] are classic in form, intricately crafted while others are very simple in design, as though rendered from a child’s drawing. Others have more elaborate forms: alien, hybrid, they are at times even contorted into inhibiting devices, somewhere between a crown and a mask. Some are fashioned of precious materials like gold or silver, some of marble; others of more humble material like wood, nylon, scrap metal, or dried herbs and flowers," the description explains.

This is certainly not the first time a selfie-taking tourist has damaged a piece of art—Yayoi Kusama's Instagram-bait Infinity Mirrored Room exhibition suffered a similar fate recently. But at least, in this instant, the damage was only done to the artwork and not the selfie-taker: Earlier this year a tourist was bitten by a crocodile while trying to take a selfie in Thailand, and another woman fell from the highest bridge in California while trying to snap a photo of herself. Let this be a lesson for all: doing it for the 'gram can backfire.