Is It Something in the Florida Water?

[Jay481985]

Make this post about anything dumb you hear about in the news; Florida or not.

[Jay481985]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080811/od_afp/switzerlandoffbeatart

GENEVA (AFP) -
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 said Monday.

The art work, titled "Complex S(expletive..)", is the size of a house. The wind carried it 200 metres (yards) 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 the piece would be put back on display.

I feel bad for the child's home, "Mom, WTF is that big piece of ..."

[billybob]

Makes you wonder what the artist will say when he learns of his art work getting blown away....[:$][:'(]

[frankphess]

Go to fark.com, there's a milion of em'

http://www.fark.com/

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[Jay481985]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080813/ap_on_fe_st/odd_coin_truck_purchase

CINCINNATI - An Ohio man who says he doesn't trust paper money has
delivered enough coins to cover half the price of a brand new pickup truck.

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Employees at a dealership in the Cincinnati suburb of Springdale say 70-year-old James Jones plunked down 16 coffee cans full of coins Tuesday for a new Chevrolet Silverado.

Salesman David Crisswell says employees spent 90 minutes counting the collection of dimes, quarters, half-dollars and dollar coins, which covered half the $16,000 price of the pickup.

Jones and his wife, Betty, wrote a check for the other half of the cost.

Jones' son says his dad has always preferred to pay with coins. Dennis Jones says he's most amazed that his penny-pinching father decided to replace his 1981 pickup, which struck his father when its parking brake failed last year, putting him in a hospital.