Here is a monument trend I can support:
Statue of Shakira in her home town. Pretty woman. Nice likeness.
Statue of Shakira in her home town. Pretty woman. Nice likeness.
Politics: Statues coming down II
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Freshman Dem proposes bill to remove Statue of Liberty in protest of GOP's 'bigoted' immigration law
Democratic Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost invoked the removal of the Statue of Liberty to attack Republicans' recent efforts to push for stricter immigration policies.
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Rhetorical points can still be funny. Even if this idiot was serious, the best I can do is an indifferent shoulder-shrug.
Yet more ignorance......... 
Vandals have defaced two statues in Melbourne on the eve of Australia Day – hacking down a statue of Captain Cook in St Kilda and spray painting a Queen Victoria statue near the Botanical Gardens. “This is terrorism,” Ms Storer said. “I don’t care how anyone paints it; this is like in-house terrorism, plain and simple. “These guys make their agenda known – they’re just going to keep destroying stuff until – until what?”
Vandals have defaced two statues in Melbourne on the eve of Australia Day – hacking down a statue of Captain Cook in St Kilda and spray painting a Queen Victoria statue near the Botanical Gardens. “This is terrorism,” Ms Storer said. “I don’t care how anyone paints it; this is like in-house terrorism, plain and simple. “These guys make their agenda known – they’re just going to keep destroying stuff until – until what?”
A monument to the French dead in the Franco-Prussian War has been defaced.
The stolen statue was a woman representing Alsace, mourning her dead.
It weighed 1,100 pounds and was stolen, so this was not easy to pinch.
I have no idea whether there was a political motive. It may have simply been the theft of 1,100 pounds of bronze.
The stolen statue was a woman representing Alsace, mourning her dead.
It weighed 1,100 pounds and was stolen, so this was not easy to pinch.
I have no idea whether there was a political motive. It may have simply been the theft of 1,100 pounds of bronze.
That's impressive! It is going to be hard to steal. Somebody's gonna need a bigger truck.
Sam needs a vitamin D supplement.
Did the same guy do the SRV statue? I'd like to have a small replica, maybe 10 inches tall.
Bronze is worth $1.85 per pound so an 1,100 pounds would be worth $2035. That's some hard and risky work for a couple of thousand dollars.
Dude likes to do BIG work. Until you see the forklift, you have no idea how big these are.
Somebody needs to dig those poor presidents out of the ground.
I did some looking around. The presidents heads are also huge, they just look small in this picture.
I wasn't saying in my previous post that the French statue wasn't stolen for the metal, just that there are easier ways to make a living. I have a friend here who works construction that has a wire stripper. He makes decent coin collecting copper wire.
Theft of HVAC units around here was rife at one time. I built a house in the winter of 1976-77 (and it was frigid). They waited until the very end, just before occupancy. to set the heat pumps, and it wasn't for the units themselves, but the copper content. About 15 years ago, my wife was starting up Bankhead here, coming home from visiting the kids in Nashville. We had had a long drought and it was drizzling, so the roadway was like ice. The first "S" curve, she downshifted and totally lost traction. She shot off into the woods and wedged the Tacoma between two trees, the opening being just a midge short of the width of the truck. It was Sunday and I called AAA to get a truck there. It wasn't a flatbed, just the old-fashioned type. He had a hard time getting it unstuck and took it to the body shop I usually used. He was young and inexperienced and just dropped it outside the fence there, instead of taking it to his base of operations. The next morning, I called the body shop owner and he told me that guys patrolled the body shops, hoping to find an unguarded catalytic converter, and they'd cut and stolen mine. In paying the claim, St. Farm didn't penalize for the theft, which would have reduced the truck salvage value by about a thousand...
I think that was the consensus view. 1,100 pounds of bronze is a lot of copper.
We had some converters stolen during worship...back parking lot. Pretty brazen...
Here is one that maybe ought to be edited for modesty.
The Iowa Civil War veterans monument in Des Moines.
A nice monument. At the base is the figure of a woman sitting on a plow, representing the state of Iowa, as a nourishing mother.
A woman designed that statue.
First time I saw that, I thought to myself, "My, that is ... interesting."
The Iowa Civil War veterans monument in Des Moines.
A nice monument. At the base is the figure of a woman sitting on a plow, representing the state of Iowa, as a nourishing mother.
A woman designed that statue.
First time I saw that, I thought to myself, "My, that is ... interesting."
i wonder if that's the midwest farmer's daughter the beach boys sang about
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