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Please place razor wire around sculptures instead of packing peanuts. Obviously the signs don’t do anything. This was a preventable accident.—Dumb Da Dumb Dumb DUMB!
This article appears in Jul 25-31, 2013.
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If people are to stupid to realize they may fall, allow them to do so.
If parents can’t maintain control over the actions of their children, they should be taken away.
I’ve been out of province; did some spacker fall off the big blue vomiting stomach on the waterfront?
The artist should have encased it in peanuts; that’d keep kids off.
I hereby rechristen the statue “Darwin’s Tongue”.
you can ride on it, true story
paingirl, that just made you an honorary lesbian!
haha, cool
and if you can convince ANOTHER woman to sit on the giant tongue,
you get a toaster oven!
hmm, i need a new toaster, just the regular kind
There should be a test of 50 skill testing questions you have to answer correctly before you are allowed to start a petition.
Darwin’s tongue – bawhawhawhawhaw, good one.
The report that cracked me up was the complainant whining about some parents sitting on the warning sign. Sounds like his zygote needs a couple of yards of bubble wrap and a harness to keep him from bolting. Falling off shit is part of the learning process.
Fucking neglectful parents need a smack.
A fence would literally transform that sculpture into a monument to stupidity.
Perhaps the parents should’ve been paying more attention to their spawn? I’m waiting for the dickweeds to start a lawsuit looking for free moolah.
Whatever happened to parents using this type of thing as a learning tool for their kids?
When I was 8, I was running in flip flops. I fell and my knee split open on a piece of glass on the street. I had to get a buttload of stitches and I had to get a freezing needle shoved right in the wound. While my mother was sympathetic, she didn’t start a petition to ban flip flops. No, she told me that the reason I fell was because I was running in footwear not designed to be ran in. And you know what? I never ran in flip flops again.
Perhaps this asspick could’ve used this as a learning tool for himself and his kid. For himself: pay closer attention to your children and for his kid: climbing shit could result in falling and hurting yourself.
Fucking SET-ass idiot parent.
the idiot let a THREE year old get far enough away/out of sight to climb the damn thing and then fall off. he says he sent his 10 year old to save him. a 3 year old running around loose and unwatched in a public place with a 6 inch high barrier to prevent falling into the harbour? (which may or may not contain pooh and peanuts)
he wants a fence type barrier attached to the top of the sculpture, so wayward kids can still climb it, but cannot fall over the upper edge. I guess they could just impale themselves on the fence, or snag the back of their t-shirts and strangle.
“Field of Morons – if you build it; some mouthbreather will find a way to get hurt”
haha, *pooh and peanuts*
I’ve yet to hear a comment in support of the parent. I wonder if he “gets it” now. LOL Save the tongue! (and the first time I saw the thing, I had no idea what it was, only that I wouldn’t want to climb onto the dirty thing – ick)
just saw a pic on twitter, ambulance crew at the base of the tongue. so it’s happened again, and there’s a kid right at the top of it while all this is going on.
The parent himself should be charged under subsection two of the Law of Gravity.