We made the decision to take it out ASAP

So let me get this straight. A “sculpture” of a little boy in a kiddie park  was missing an arm. So someone sneaks out there and welds on a new arm, plus one of those ridiculous Arnold Schwarzenegger mini-guns, on to the damaged statute. And that’s “Vandalism?”

Visitors to Meridian Park were surprised to see a mysterious addition welded on one of the child-themed statues ringing the playground: a machine gun. The statue is right at the northeastern entrance — one of several statues, like a train engine and a child on stilts, created by artist Pat Maher.

OMG! GUNZ! Gunz R baad m’Kay.

As you would expect, some busybody duchebag cried and whined about it.

“I feel so demoralized,” tweeted Jeanne, who helped commission Maher for the original work. “We worked hard on renovating that park and playground and getting input from neighborhood. Sculptures were charming.”

Oh, horrors! My charming little park has been sullied with an EBIL GUN!

Jeanne says she spoke to Seattle Police, and the officer told her no crime has been committed. “He told me this wasn’t vandalism. That just because I didn’t like it didn’t mean it was a crime,” she said.

If I lived in Seattle, I’d track that cop down and kiss him. Well, shake his hand at least. Maybe we can talk Joe Huffman into finding him and thanking him for us.

But don’t worry, haters. The Parks Department swung into action and chopped off the offending “machine gun.”

The Seattle Parks Department removed the machine gun tonight after seeing story in the media. “We made the decision to take it out ASAP,” it said.

By far the best comment on the whole thing comes from the person claiming to be the rogue artist, in a letter to Wallyhood.org

Unfortunately while I was making my install tonight (surreptitiously of course) I was accosted by some crazy lady who was completely bent out of shape.

Read the whole thing, including the comments. It’s hilarious. From those same comments we find that

Also, I should add that the boy used to have a sword, so it’s not like he had a flower or a peace sign that got replaced with a machine gun. Apparently the sword wasn’t a strong enough weapon to save his arm, so now he’s back and looking for sweet, sweet revenge.

I don’t even know what to say. This kiddie park sculpture used to have a sword. Some a-hole ripped off the old arm (and sword) and it’s been sitting there, sans arm. A guy comes in, adds a silly “machine gun” and some old bag whines and cries and bleats and moans until Parks and Rec comes by and slices the whole thing off.

It pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the anti-gun mindset, doesn’t it?

=============================================================================

Do you RSS? Don't know what an RSS Feed is?

Watch this video

Subscribe in a reader

Save time and read all the latest blog news first.