A young man attempting to take a selfie with the statue of a 16th century Portuguese king ended badly when statue crashed to the ground and shattered, according to police.

As Reuters reported, the man accidentally toppled Dom Sebastiao’s statue after climbing up to its pedestal outside the ornate Rossio railway station in central Lisbon.

He tried to flee the scene but police caught him. The man will appear before a judge at a later date.

The child-sized statue of the sad-eyed, sword-wielding king stood in a niche between two horseshoe-shaped arches at the entrance to the station. Completed in 1890, the station is a protected monument.