Major Museums Start Banning Selfie Sticks

An anonymous reader shares these articles about museums banning the dreaded selfie stick. "Selfie sticks, the logical 'extension' of an already irksome activity, were recently banned in Premier League soccer stadiums. Now museums around the world are starting to do the same over worries of accidental damage to artwork. The Smithsonian barred their use effective last week as a 'preventative measure to protect visitors and museum objects,' especially on crowded days. Meanwhile, a formal ban is pending at Versailles palace and Centre Pompidou in France, and visitors are now being told to stow their sticks by guards at the Louvre. Both Pompidou and the Louvre will continue to allow regular photography and selfies."

Comments

Thought these were jokes

[Anonymous Coward]

Up until I just googled the phrase seconds ago: "Selfie Stick" I thought it was just something people joked about (hyperbole of where selfies are going) and wasn't actually a real product. I just looked them up and wow...

Re:Plans to 3D print a selfie stick?

[MitchDev]

Screw your logic, because ... umm... 3D Printing!!!!!!!!!! It's amazing, it's the next big thing, it's a Star Trek replicator...

Hope the hype dies soon...

Priorities

[Andy Smith]

Selfie sticks, the only thing that can rival drones in their speed of being banned.

Re:Plans to 3D print a selfie stick?

[smooth wombat]

Just like XKCD, The Big Bang Theory comes to the rescue:

Howard: Do you realize, by owning a 3-D printer, we are reclaiming the manufacturing process and taking jobs back from sweatshops in China?

Raj: I think this thing was made in China.

Howard: Eh, what can you do?

Raj: Ooh, I, I think it's done. Oh, it worked. We printed a whistle.

Howard: Amazing. You realize these things go for 25 cents a pop at a party store.

Raj: And we made it in only three hours. Sounds just like store-bought.

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