This is just not the way you rejoice Columbus Day.

A pair of crazed local weather activists had been busted Sunday after hurling purple paint at a mural of Christopher Columbus — in a weird caught-on-camera artwork assault at a Spanish museum.

The two vandals, members of the unconventional group “Futuro Vegetal,” had been caught on surprising video throwing purple paint at “First Tribute to Christopher Columbus,” an enormous mural of the Italian-born explorer painted in 1892 by artist Jose Garnelo and displayed at Madrid’s Naval Museum, Spain’s El Pais reported.

Climate activists from the group “Futuro Vegetal” vandalize a Christopher Columbus mural at Madrid’s Naval Museum. El Pais

The activist group, whose title loosely…



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