Mindless vandalism
When the Soviet Union was broken up, and its constituent republics all looked for more cordial relations with the West, the United Nations decided to establish a token foothold in some of these new states. Usually this amounted to nothing more than a rented office in a dingy tower block, but in Estonia the new government generously offered the use of a modest but well-maintained 18th Century house on the edge of the capital. One day, however, a local resident, bitter at his living conditions post-Communism, and, needless to say, full of vodka, climbed the fence surrounding the courtyard, and decided to vent his rage by grabbing a hatchet left by a careless gardener and swinging it with all his might at the statue of a female deer that formed the impressive centrepiece of the courtyard.

These days you could say that it's an axe-y dent Talinn UN doe...
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Wed 18 Jun 2008, 14:28, Reply)