Giant poo causes museum chaos

  • Uncle Ho
    Uncle Ho
    16 years ago

    Giant poo causes museum chaos

    05:50 AEST Tue Aug 12 2008
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    The inflatable poo destroyed power lines and smashed windows.
    AFP
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    A giant inflatable dog turd by American artist Paul McCarthy blew away from an exhibition in the garden of a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a greenhouse window before it landed again, the museum has said.

    The art work, titled "Complex S**t", is the size of a house.

    The wind carried it 200 metres from the Paul Klee Centre in Berne before it fell back to Earth in the grounds of a children's home, said museum director Juri Steiner.

    The inflatable turd broke the window at the children's home when it blew away on the night of July 31, Steiner said.

    The art work has a safety system which normally makes it deflate when there is a storm, but this did not work when it blew away.

    Steiner said McCarthy had not yet been contacted and the museum was not sure if "Complex S**t" would be put back on display.

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  • toxic
    toxic
    16 years ago

    well Ho it is news, but the question is, wot were you searching for to find a story about a large inflatable turd in the 1st place

  • kingchops
    kingchops
    16 years ago
    Maybe they could have called it "Gone Off with the Wind".
  • Cuzzybro
    Cuzzybro
    16 years ago

    Someone had a shitty idea

  • Gypsylady
    Gypsylady
    16 years ago
    Now that there's some shit!