Mona Lisa Chews

AOL News: Top News - Boy Sticks Gum on $1.5 Million Museum Painting

"The Detroit Institute of Arts is stuck with having to repair a painting worth $1.5 million dollars. It has to remove a stain left by a wad of gum stuck on the painting by a 12-year-old visitor. The gum didn't stick to the fiber of the canvas, but left a stain the size of a quarter. Museum experts are researching the chemicals in the gum to decide how to clean the painting. The boy was suspended from school."

As you can see, I managed to get a picture of the painting with the bubble gum still attached. You can't be too mad at the kid, he was just having a little fun. Now he's got a story he can tell his grandkids someday. Besides, Da Vinci is said to have had a great sense of humor so he probably would have gotten a good laugh out of it too. I hear, by the way, that the museum has some of "Big League Chews" top scientists on the case, so it shouldn't be a problem getting the stain out.