Whoops! Norwegian boys ruin 5,000-year-old rock carving by trying to help - CNET

Citizens of the world, stop messing with the art.

Earlier this year, a kid in China destroyed a $15,000 Lego statue just an hour after it went on display. And the mangled fresco of Jesus that a Spanish woman awkwardly painted over in 2012 still shows up in memes.

Now a pair of Norwegian boys are joining the Roster of Shame. The two saw a 5,000-year-old rock carving of a man on skis on the island of Tro on Norway's west coast and decided it wasn't visible enough, the UK's Telegraph reports. So they took a sharp object and traced over the lines -- and around the lines, and outside the lines, and pretty much made their own scratched-up lines. It's no Potato Jesus, but the Stone Age carving no longer represents its original image.

Here's the original, as shown in a tweet from Archaeology magazine:

And here's the, uh, "improved" version.