Mermaid Battered and Humiliated in Denmark

For 90 years, the Little
Mermaid statue has looked out longingly
at the Baltic Sea from atop a rock in the picturesque harbor. And in the
years following Disney’s 1989 film and heavy merchandising, the Little
Mermaid has become a top tourist attraction.

But on Sept. 10, the bronze mermaid was blown off her rock with what police
suspect was dynamite, with some pieces left in the shallow waters along
the shore. Proving that the world is always fascinated when stars suffer
tragic falls from grace, tour boats continue to circle just to view the
rock from which she was blasted.

This is not the first time she’s been treated so brutally. She’s had
her head chopped off twice, been spattered with red paint, sullied with
dye, and humiliated in innumerable other ways. . From the Boston Globe