Politics: Statues coming down II

[Go Bama]

The authorities in Kansas are searching for the vandals who stole a life-size bronze statue commemorating Jackie Robinson, the first Black Major League Baseball player, after they cut it off at the ankles, leaving behind just the statue’s shoes and base.

Jackie Robinson statue stolen.

 

[Tidewater]

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.

 

[crimsonaudio]

Some of this crap has gotten ridiculous.

 

[TexasBama]

SRV statue in Austin

 

[TexasBama]

I know this artist personally. He’s done some amazing stuff

Sam Houston, on IH45 near Huntsville TX

 

[TexasBama]

A monument to the French dead in the Franco-Prussian War has been defaced.
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The stolen statue was a woman representing Alsace, mourning her dead.
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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.

It’s possible they’re stealing it to sell the metal.

 

[Go Bama]

I know this artist personally. He’s done some amazing stuff

Sam Houston, on IH45 near Huntsville TX

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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.

 

[TexasBama]

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.

David Adickes did the Sam statue, but not SRV. Adickes also did the Beatles

 

[Go Bama]

It’s possible they’re stealing it to sell the metal.

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.

 

[TexasBama]

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.

Cooper wire theft from construction sites is common.

 

[Go Bama]

David Adickes did the Sam statue, but not SRV. Adickes also did the Beatles

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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.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

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...

 

[Tidewater]

It’s possible they’re stealing it to sell the metal.

I think that was the consensus view. 1,100 pounds of bronze is a lot of copper.

 

[Padreruf]

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...

We had some converters stolen during worship...back parking lot. Pretty brazen...

 

[Tidewater]

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."

 

[92tide]

Here is one that maybe ought to be edited for modesty.
The Iowa Civil War veterans monument in Des Moines.
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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.
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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

 

[TIDE-HSV]

Here is one that maybe ought to be edited for modesty.
The Iowa Civil War veterans monument in Des Moines.
View attachment 40522
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.
View attachment 40524
A woman designed that statue.
First time I saw that, I thought to myself, "My, that is ... interesting."

Well, at least where she reaches next is all covered up...

 

[TIDE-HSV]

A monument to the French dead in the Franco-Prussian War has been defaced.
View attachment 40516
The stolen statue was a woman representing Alsace, mourning her dead.
View attachment 40518
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.

Funny, how the Alsatians have been forced to flip back and forth as nationalities. My advanced German conversation was Alsatian. He taught both French and German and was head of the languages department at UAH. His name was "Pinot." We met at a little bar, a white clapboard house at the busy corner of Holmes and Jordan Lane and it's long gone now, swallowed up by progress. Pinot would toss out a topic for conversation and then we had to discuss in German. The beer probably helped...

 

[Tidewater]

Funny, how the Alsatians have been forced to flip back and forth as nationalities. My advanced German conversation was Alsatian. He taught both French and German and was head of the languages department at UAH. His name was "Pinot." We met at a little bar, a white clapboard house at the busy corner of Holmes and Jordan Lane and it's long gone now, swallowed up by progress. Pinot would toss out a topic for conversation and then we had to discuss in German. The beer probably helped...

The Musée de la Guerre de 1870 et de l'Annexion in Gravelotte (just west of Metz) explains the war (the French were exceptionally messed up), the battle (ditto) and the annexation (1871-1919). The entire museum is first-rate, but in some ways the portion on the annexation is the most interesting. It seems that Alsatian society in those years was a French underclass, and a German-speaking elite whose influence spread over the years.
Since 1919 (except for the brief interlude of 1940-1945), the French government has successfully stamped out any Germanic cultural manifestations. The population today is thoroughly French, even if they speak in a slightly strange manner.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

The Musée de la Guerre de 1870 et de l'Annexion in Gravelotte (just west of Metz) explains the war (the French were exceptionally messed up), the battle (ditto) and the annexation (1871-1919). The entire museum is first-rate, but in some ways the portion on the annexation is the most interesting. It seems that Alsatian society in those years was a French underclass, and a German-speaking elite whose influence spread over the years.
Since 1919 (except for the brief interlude of 1940-1945), the French government has successfully stamped out any Germanic cultural manifestations. The population today is thoroughly French, even if they speak in a slightly strange manner.

And most of the towns still bear German names...