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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRhode Islanders repeatedly call cops over 12-foot snow penis
UPDATE (5:35 pm): The Huffington Post reported that the snow penis was demolished just two hours after it posted the original story. Its just a big pair of balls now, Raylene Worthington, the mother of the 16-year-old responsible for the sculpture, told HuffPo.
The townsfolk in South Kingstown, Rhode Island were none too happy this week to discover that one of their neighbors built a 12-foot tall sculpture of a penis out of snow, in clear view of a neighborhood road.
Police told The Providence Journal that they responded to calls about the phallic creation four different times in two days, but did nothing because it was on private property.
Of course, it didnt have to be 12-feet tall. But when the mother of the teenage boys who built the thing saw how people were reacting, she felt like driving the point home a little.
Theyre teenage boys theres worse things they could be doing, she told a Huffington Post reporter. It was innocent. And to be honest, knowing that it pissed people off gave us a little charge. If you have nothing else to do in your day other than complain about a snow penis, well make it 12 feet tall.
Raw Story (http://s.tt/1zQjm)
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Can't blame a snow girl for asking!
You know what would be even better? Yeah, that's right. Uh huh. Remove those teeth.
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)That's my only complaint.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)cool mom
MADem
(135,425 posts)idwiyo
(5,113 posts)Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)And most everyone would just roll their eyes and kick it down or laugh.
Lighten the fuck up, Rhode Island. I mean, I could see if you had a history of being attacked by 12 foot dongs and it was some sore spot in your state's history. But c'mon!
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)They lived right across the street from the college. Local newspaper took a picture and put it on the front page.
And this was in freakin Kansas. These Rhode Island prudes need to lighten up.
ladjf
(17,320 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)SmileyRose
(4,854 posts)cool mom
Snarkoleptic
(5,996 posts)kag
(4,078 posts)coffee-up-the-nose funny!
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)Kennah
(14,234 posts)Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)Kennah
(14,234 posts)mythology
(9,527 posts)Hey, hey, ho, ho, this penis party's got to go.
patrice
(47,992 posts)a religious expression.
one_voice
(20,043 posts)me built a snowman with a big ole penis, when I drove by I laughed my ass off. Went home got my husband and made him go look he laughed too. My son came home laughing about it, asked it I'd seen it. What was impressive was they built it with very little snow.
The boys are good kids, good students, play sports, always help coral stray dogs, they were being teenage boys. Apparently someone complained in my neighborhood too and they were asked to 'castrate' the snowman, rather than do that they just knocked the whole thing down.
Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)...And develops unrealistic expectations! Dammit DU think of the children!
Also, how can we be SURE that this is not a gay penis?!
Kennah
(14,234 posts)OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)The neighbors most likely were seeking immediate medical attention.
malaise
(268,664 posts)Yavin4
(35,420 posts)Better re-read that prescription.
caseymoz
(5,763 posts)1) Most women don't like them that big (nor men, if applicable); 2) It's made out of ice, which is totally antithetical to its use.
What is was kid thinking? Is sex ed in Rhode Island that bad?
SeattleVet
(5,477 posts)12-feet tall, as cold as it is? Knowing what a little cold water can do...
socialindependocrat
(1,372 posts)MichaelHarris
(10,017 posts)I woulda added a water hose for the blue vein
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Build a small pump in the top with a button. Yeah I know...sick.
MichaelHarris
(10,017 posts)went to strange and exotic places with that one
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)I should tell you sometime about one of my girlfriends (now-ex) about 15 years ago. She was uptight Republican, and after she was with me for a few year, whooee was she liberal in at least one sense.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)If you have nothing else to do in your day other than complain about a snow penis, well make it 12 feet tall.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)Love it!!!!!!!!!!!
DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)...and taxpayers' money.
kag
(4,078 posts)Why didn't someone just build a 12-foot-deep vagina on top of it?
snort
(2,334 posts)should be jumping all over this shit its worth a fortune! Oh wait, about half of us have this thing? Never mind.
Nanjing to Seoul
(2,088 posts)Spirochete
(5,264 posts)was a jolly happy soul
with a corncob pipe, a button nose
and a dick like a telephone pole
phylny
(8,367 posts)Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)
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napoleon_in_rags
(3,991 posts)This from the description of a 4,000 year old burial site found in China recently:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/14/worlds-oldest-pornography-3000-years-old-bi-curious_n_2687937.html
The cemetery where the mummies were found was unique in the world for its time. The site bristled with nearly 200 poplar posts, up to 12 feet high, and it required extravagant amounts of lumber. Some of the posts, painted black and red, were either torpedo-like or resembled oversized oars. The bodies lay on the sand, covered with boat-like coffins wrapped in cattle hides.
Viktor Mair, a professor of Chinese language and literature at the University of Pennsylvania and one of the foremost experts on the mummies, writes that SRC5 was a forest of phalluses and vulvas
blanketed in sexual symbolism. The torpedoes were phallic symbols marking all the female graves, while the oars marking the male burials represented vulvas. Many female burials contained carved phalluses at their sides, and the mound also contained large wooden sculptures with hyperbolized genitalia. Such overt, pervasive attention to sexual reproduction is extremely rare in the world for a burial ground,
MotherPetrie
(3,145 posts)A: Snowballs.
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GETTINGTIRED
(330 posts)given time it will be flacid...
aquart
(69,014 posts)tarheelsunc
(2,117 posts)Human ones aren't that narrow.
cherish44
(2,566 posts)shcrane71
(1,721 posts)Teaching our kids to provoke our neighbors instead of being, well -- neighborly.
I know tons of teenage boys that would do this, and I as well as most adults I know would think it's funny. Yet the adult in me would not want my boys labelled as lacking impulse control.
actslikeacarrot
(464 posts)...if it wasn't so cold out.
Hey-o!
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Oy.