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Related: About this forumGiant snow penis demolished at Texas Tech University as students protest (Graphic warning)
A group of mostly male students at Texas Tech University staged a heroic last stand before a bulldozer demolished their beloved snow sculpture of a giant penis. The 11-foot-tall sculpture, built in "one of the most popular places on campus," took about four hours and up to ten students to complete, according to a video description on Newsflare.
A group of mostly male students at Texas Tech University staged a heroic last stand before a bulldozer demolished their beloved snow sculpture of a giant penis.
The 11-foot-tall sculpture, built in "one of the most popular places on campus," took about four hours and up to ten students to complete, according to a video description on Newsflare.
Before the students could add their finishing touches to the sculpture, university workers in a bulldozer arrived to demolish it. The YouTube video showing the incident has received more than 52,000 views as of Monday morning.
Students began pouring water on the sculpture in a futile attempt to solidify it. After a brief standoff between workers and students, who posed with the sculpture and hugged it while others took photos, the sculpture was destroyed in "possibly the most brutal way possible," according to the video's description.
The rest of the article and video of the demolition at http://www.chron.com/news/local/article/Giant-snow-penis-demolished-at-Texas-Tech-6040505.php .
[font color=green]They make things bigger in Texas. Let the comments commence...[/font]
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)I do understand that it withstood some stiff competition already
mountain grammy
(26,653 posts)TexasTowelie
(112,424 posts)I also was wondering if a "Prince Albert" piercing was the order of the day.
mercuryblues
(14,537 posts)originally 40 feet tall. But it shrunk in the cold.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)DakotaLady
(246 posts)from me a grandma from what you wrote about baby snowmen!
Enjoyed all the comments but shenmue the best came from comment/reply.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)nt
cloudbase
(5,525 posts)mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)Guess it got whacked.
Tyrs WolfDaemon
(2,289 posts)and claimed it to be a religious icon or shrine to the Frost Giant whose body became our home of Midgard. Perhaps the students could have held off the bulldozer stating that the penis was for a worship service.
Anatomical question: Would an ice penis shoot slush, snow balls, or icicles?
TexasTowelie
(112,424 posts)I grew up in south Texas where it rarely snows, but my parents told me not to eat the yellow snow. Now I know why.
Vogon_Glory
(9,129 posts)Was this snow sculpture named after our dear ex-governor? You know-- (space) (space) ick Perry?
TexasTowelie
(112,424 posts)it needs to snow at College Station and a penis would need to erect (ahem) a penis on campus, then it would be a fitting tribute since Perry asked for the Texas A&M Board of Regents to withdraw the proposal to name the academic building after him. Finally, they would have Reveille out for a stroll to mark the territory as a fitting tribute.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)1) It's a backhoe, not a bulldozer.
2) Considering that I am sitting in North Idaho staring out my window at a whole lot of snow-free lawn, how do they have enough snow in Lubbock to build a life-size replica of Joe Arpaio?
and
3) Does Texas Tech have an engineering school? One would think building a girder into this would be helpful,
TexasTowelie
(112,424 posts)but it was a sudden erection so I imagine that the students weren't thinking of support. Maybe next year?
I'm surprised that nobody else caught on that it was a backhoe that emasculated the monument, but it did snow about 4-5 inches in Lubbock that week although a Facebook friend of mine had some nice pictures of the snow where she lives in northern Idaho.