The Day People Destroyed Putin, Leissner, Najib and Zahid Into Pieces of Wax

The Day People Destroyed Putin, Leissner, Najib and Zahid Into Pieces of Wax
By Mihar Dias
(C) Copyright March 2022

Grevin Museum in Paris reportedly removed a wax figure of Vladimir Putin to a warehouse partly as a protest against his invasion of Ukraine and partly to protect it against further damage by enraged visitors.

Apparently, patrons had unleashed their anger on the Putin wax look alike because of his invasion of Ukraine. So, instead of having to repair the damage regularly, they decided that it was better to retire it to the storeroom.

The fate of Putin’s wax image was no different from that of Donald Trump’s which had been punched and scratched so much that it was removed from being displayed at Louis Tussaud’s Palace of Wax in San Antonio.

Imagine a wax museum scene in Kuala Lumpur during the last couple of weeks, in light of testimonies unfolding in New York court by a disgraced executive of Goldman Sachs.

Before anyone could stop them some self-appointed super patriotic and overzealous and jealous Malaysian men would have punched Tim Leissner to bits if indeed he was one of the figures displayed.

Many who were absolutely angered by the gweilo who misled and bedded Malaysian women ought to be punished. Imagine his wax sculpture, standing, at a corner, underneath a Goldman Sachs logo, in the museum inviting to be taught a lesson. “Celaka punya orang putih”, (Damn you gweilo), they would say as they punched and kicked the wax look alike. It would not be long before he crumbled to the floor, a mere pile of wax.

Meanwhile, back in Paris, the Gervin Museum announced that in place of Putin they were considering the possibility of replacing it with a statue of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Obviously, the comedian would be an ideal replacement because of his popularity and would be able to attract a larger number of visitors than the autocratic and extremely paranoid Putin.

Another scenario that might evolve out of our own yet to be built wax museum would be the space devoted to former heads of political parties in Malaysia.

I wouldn’t want to dream of a scene of what would happen to Najib’s or Zahid’s wax figures once the two were finally sentenced. They would probably be the ones that would need fixing the most in that museum compared to others because I suspect many visitors had scores to settle with the two characters.

Eventually, the two wax lookalikes would be removed to the warehouse like the Gervin Museum or Louis Tussaud’s Palace of Wax in San Antonio did with Putin’s and Trump’s respectively when the management realised that the cost of maintenance would be just too high to keep them in front of frustrated and vindictive visitors.

Perhaps Grevin Museum or our yet to be built facility might be better off with punch bags of effigies that looked like those inviting to be punched the way Americans did with Trump.

Leave plenty of effigies in the foyer where people could vent their anger to their fullest satisfaction. No maintenance is needed, except those who did punch and might need first aid for bruised knuckles.

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