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muriel_volestrangler

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Mon Jun 23, 2014, 06:58 AM Jun 2014

US student is rescued from giant vagina sculpture in Germany

On Friday afternoon, a young American in Tübingen had to be rescued by 22 firefighters after getting trapped inside a giant sculpture of a vagina. The Chacán-Pi (Making Love) artwork by the Peruvian artist Fernando de la Jara has been outside Tübingen University's institute for microbiology and virology since 2001 and had previously mainly attracted juvenile sniggers rather than adventurous explorers.

According to De la Jara, the 32-ton sculpture made out of red Veronese marble is meant to signify "the gateway to the world".

Police confirmed that the firefighters turned midwives delivered the student "by hand and without the application of tools".

The mayor of Tübingen told the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper that he struggled to imagine how the accident could have happened, "even when considering the most extreme adolescent fantasies. To reward such a masterly achievement with the use of 22 firefighters almost pains my soul."

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/23/us-student-rescued-giant-vagina-sculpture-germany

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US student is rescued from giant vagina sculpture in Germany (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Jun 2014 OP
I can't even think of a comment worthy of this genius's adventure. Hoppy Jun 2014 #1
No forceps required libodem Jun 2014 #2
USA!, USA!, USA! FSogol Jun 2014 #3
If trapped in a giant vagina for more than 4 hours, get medical help right away! FSogol Jun 2014 #4
There's a viagra joke here somewhere. nt Javaman Jun 2014 #5
Oh that isn't even the best part of it davidpdx Jun 2014 #6
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