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TexasTowelie

(112,424 posts)
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 08:28 PM Jan 2015

Giant 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 .

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Giant snow penis demolished at Texas Tech University as students protest (Graphic warning) (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jan 2015 OP
Cue the frigid jokes… Jackpine Radical Jan 2015 #1
College kids and snow.. mountain grammy Jan 2015 #2
Actually, I was wondering if it was circumcised or not? TexasTowelie Jan 2015 #3
It was mercuryblues Jan 2015 #4
How do you think baby snowmen are conceived? shenmue Jan 2015 #5
Giggles ... DakotaLady Jan 2015 #8
Hee hee shenmue Jan 2015 #9
It was up for over four hours, so you gotta call the doctor. tclambert Jan 2015 #6
The university needs to stop giving students the shaft bluestateguy Jan 2015 #7
Guns up! n/t cloudbase Jan 2015 #10
"Frosty, I am your father" mindwalker_i Jan 2015 #11
The students should have named it Ymir's Penis Tyrs WolfDaemon Jan 2015 #12
Tyrs, TexasTowelie Jan 2015 #13
Was This Artwork Named After Our Dear Ex-Governor? Vogon_Glory Jan 2015 #14
No, in order for that to happen TexasTowelie Jan 2015 #15
Three comments jmowreader Feb 2015 #16
Texas Tech has an engineering school, TexasTowelie Feb 2015 #17

TexasTowelie

(112,424 posts)
3. Actually, I was wondering if it was circumcised or not?
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 08:50 PM
Jan 2015

I also was wondering if a "Prince Albert" piercing was the order of the day.

DakotaLady

(246 posts)
8. Giggles ...
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 09:53 PM
Jan 2015

from me a grandma from what you wrote about baby snowmen!

Enjoyed all the comments but shenmue the best came from comment/reply.

Tyrs WolfDaemon

(2,289 posts)
12. The students should have named it Ymir's Penis
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 01:29 AM
Jan 2015

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)
13. Tyrs,
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 01:41 AM
Jan 2015

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)
14. Was This Artwork Named After Our Dear Ex-Governor?
Wed Jan 28, 2015, 09:44 AM
Jan 2015

Was this snow sculpture named after our dear ex-governor? You know-- (space) (space) ick Perry?

TexasTowelie

(112,424 posts)
15. No, in order for that to happen
Wed Jan 28, 2015, 05:47 PM
Jan 2015

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)
16. Three comments
Sun Feb 1, 2015, 07:58 AM
Feb 2015

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)
17. Texas Tech has an engineering school,
Sun Feb 1, 2015, 08:23 AM
Feb 2015

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.

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