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It looks like they put it up around 6am and it was covered over around noon. I hope, for the sake of the work that went into the piece, that it isn't destroyed
by borgia 12y ago
It looks like they put it up around 6am and it was covered over around noon.
I hope, for the sake of the work that went into the piece, that it isn't destroyed.
- fnordfnordfnord 12y agoThat's amazing. Now if only the public works department could respond to potholes that quickly.
- jessaustin 12y agoMaybe we could just start spraypainting Snowden's face in and around potholes? If it worked, the general public would know Snowden only as the pothole-fixing guy. No jury would ever convict! b^)
- CalRobert 12y agoActually, an approaching not entirely unlike that has been tried successfully in Russia. http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/09/embarrassing-pothole-caricatures-of-politicians-spur-action-to-fix-the-streets/ http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/09/embarrassing-pothole-c...
- CalRobert 12y agoUgg. "approach". Nothing like seeing your typos the following day.
- Someone1234 12y agoThat is an interesting point. People here are saying (paraphrasing) "they'd take down any busk that wasn't authorised" and while I believe that to be true, it ignores the fact of just how QUICKLY this one got taken down. Less than six hours? How long does other graffiti take to be removed, days, weeks, months?
- fnordfnordfnord 12y agoYeah, I made my point in a snarky way, but there is definitely a political component to the swiftness of the action. It'd have been great if the job had to be submitted to a months long queue.
- genericuser 12y agoI think the speed graffiti, bust, or other such expression is removed is going to be more or less relative to the amount of attention something draws / is expected to draw. Or at least I heard that is how wheels go about getting oil.
- moyix 12y agoI showed up around 3:45pm and it was gone by then. NYPD were looking around though: https://twitter.com/moyix/status/585181778438180864 https://twitter.com/moyix/status/585181778438180864
- ics 12y agoUnless destroying it was the only way to remove it, it would likely go to the nearest impound lot (where I believe it can actually be claimed by the owners for a fee, though that might invite other problems).