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A sculpture in a Norfolk gallery caused a stir among some residents in November forcing the removal of the Buddha statue. Police told staff that the figure was offensive.
The piece was called A Trilogy: The Iconoclasts and it featured the religious figure with it’s genitals comprised of a banana and eggs!
In other strange statue news:
Yorkshire residents were bemused by the appearance of 19 carved stone heads. The heads were adorned with a symbol that seemed to spell Paradox. The heads showed up in Goathland, Kilburn, Rotherham and Arthrington and they had a note attached which read “Twinkle twinkle like a star, does love blaze less from afar?”
Were these stone heads a message for a loved one? Perhaps.
Did you hear about the novel way that Hollywood has come up with to deal with their excessive pigeon problem? They’re giving pigeons the contraceptive pill.
At this time there are over 5000 pigeons in the Hollywood area. Campaigners against the pigeons want to give them birth control pills in the form of a drug called OvoControl P in an attempt to cut their numbers in half over the next five years.
The contraceptives are being fed to the pigeons via bird food pellets. In a news story that I saw regarding Hollywood’s pigeon problem it was noted that the birds don’t seem to like to eat these special pellets. Perhaps it has something to do with a local woman who’s known as the Bird Lady who’s been encouraging the birds by leaving large bags of bird feed in different areas.
Chinese workers looking after pandas have found a way of turning all the animals’ excrement into a profitable product. The Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Centre has made products including photo frames, bookmarks and Olympics-themed souvenirs.
“They don’t smell too bad because 70 per cent of the dung is just remains of the bamboo that the pandas are unable to digest,” Jing Shimin, assistant to the centre’s director, told the Xinhua news agency.
“We used to spend at least 6,000 yuan ($770) a month to get rid of the droppings, but now they can prove lucrative.”
Somehow I don’t think my wife would want one of these photo frames.
