Canadians often refer to British Columbia as la la land. I can’t imagine why.
It all started with a statue put up in the middle of the traffic circle in Penticton.
The 2 metre high nude statue with a suitcase grandly titled “The Baggage Handler,” was promptly named “Frank” by the locals.
Unfortunately in February “Frank” had a mishap when vandals took a body part.
City council looked into the matter and sculpturer Michael Hermesh wanted 20 thousand dollars to fix the indignity.
Council paid him 300.00 to send Frank and his bag elsewhere.
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In Manila, there’s a 60-foot tall faux gold statue of Lapu-Lapu, a native Filipino who is widely believed to have killed explorer Ferdinand Magellan. It stands in the middle of Luneta Park, the largest and most popular public park in the capital.
Unfortunately, Lapu-Lapu is 1) half naked and 2) bears an uncanny resemblance to the official statuette of the Academy Awards. You’d think government officials would generally know better than what they can do with the people’s money.
Arr arrr, when the government doesn’t know, looks like in the case of “Frank” people took matters into their own hands so to speak.
We have no appreciation for art.;^)
Obviously, if I ever move to Canada it would have to be to British Columbia.
There’s a statue in Nashville TN called “Music” that’s a whole pile of naked people. One of them sufferd an indignity involving a mallet and a bodypart, but townsfolk think it was the council trying to make one of the males a tad more presentable.