Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Giant Poop Terrorizes City

No, not this, it's a story in today's Metro:

BERNE, SWITZERLAND. A giant inflatable dog mess, the centerpiece of an exhibition at a Swiss museum, broke free of its moorings, brought down a power line, smashed a window and landed in the garden of a children's home. The wind carried the house-sized fake poop 200 yards.
METRO

Forget the creepy eggman, this is the now the best thing ever. I especially love how every news outlet that's picked up this story has used different euphemisms for "dog turd." But I am disappointed that no one referred to the escaped crud balloon as "loose stool."

Here's some more about the incident, which happened July 31 but is only being reported internationally now, from the UK's Guardian:

...The exhibit, entitled Complex Shit, is the size of a house. It has a safety system that is supposed to deflate it in bad weather, but it did not work on this occasion...

The installation is part of an exhibition called East of Eden: A Garden Show, which features sound sculptures in trees and a football ground without goalposts. The exhibition opened in May and is due to run until October.
The centre's website describes the show as containing "interweaving, diverse, not to say conflictive emphases and a broad spectrum of items to form a dynamic exchange of parallel and self-eclipsing spatial and temporal zones".

Because I love you, here is a picture of the giant pile of dog crap.

9 comments:

LL said...

Monsturd... now there's a premise for a film! I can't believe it didn't win an Oscar.

And when you build a giant inflatable dog turd, you just know that chaos is going to ensue...

John said...

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

Tony Gasbarro said...

Wow! Took down a power line...smashed a window...a few more yards and it could have clogged the city's sewage system...

That's some tough shit!

NYPinTA said...

You can't just copy some story about giant dog poop and call that a post!

John said...

I didn't just copy it. Do I need to remind you about "Loose stool?"

Irb said...

Ay! El Guillermo del perro!

Word Verification: wwjpihm
What Would Jesus Put In His Mouth?

fakies said...

Boy, what a letdown. I came here looking for pictures of guys from a concert, and all I found was this crappy post.

John said...

Quiet, you. With your...tiny pictures.

wwjpihmffd
What would Jesus put in his mouth for fifty dollars? That wasn't a word verification, I just wanted to build on it.

"Hey Jesus! I'll give you 3 silver pieces if you put Peter's dirty, nasty sandel in you mouth!"

"Thou shalt not temp the Lord, your God...Ah, what the hell."

"Aw, man, he totally did it!"

Unknown said...

I've got a bag for that lol

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