4 out of 5 pre-teen vandals choose Wrigley’s Extra Polar Ice

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To enliven any news story, journalists are all about gory details. But we came across one such detail today that seems more about some kind of product placement gone wrong than anything else. Apparently, during a school trip to the Detroit Institute of Arts, some 12-year-old stuck a wad of gum on a $1.5 million painting. And right there in the second paragraph is the key information—it wasn’t just any piece of gum, but a piece of Wrigley’s

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