It was a scene straight out of a slapstick comedy. Just a few weeks ago, a patron of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England tripped and stumbled down a stairway and fell right on top of three Qing dynasty vases shattering the relics into tiny pieces.

The vases were roughly 200 years old and had resided at the Fitzwilliam Museum since 1948. They were arguably the museum's most well-known artifacts, sitting undisturbed on a window sill for roughly 40 years.

Margaret Greeves, the museum's assistant director, has vowed to have the three irreplaceable vases put back together despite the fact that they currently nothing more than tiny shards of material. The museum declined to release the name of the culprit responsible for the destruction of the Ming dynasty vases. What is known is that what caused the man to originally stumble were his own untied shoelaces.

This is just another example of why mothers say the things they do.