GREATEST. STORY. EVER. You can't make this stuff up!

Flying piece of art causes museum chaos in Switzerland
Mon Aug 11, 3:26 PM ET

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.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/a...offbeatart

Pictures here: http://www.paulkleezentru...garten.cfm

So the wind blew and the shit flew?

OMG I hope I find it!

That's awesome.

this is why i love art.

Typical Sunday morning at my house.

i mean what would you think if that thing just floated from the sky and busted the window on you house

horatio said:

That God just took a dump ...

Amazing! I love contemporary art...it's the shit!

DevotedPuppy said:

Boooo!! Get off the stage!!!

Byron said:

nice!!!

I would so love to be one of the kids in that home. They have a story for life!
That's an event that you will then forever mark time by. Pre turd and post turd.

" Well I think Billy was 5...nono...he couldn't have been 5 at the time, he was only a few weeks old when the turd crashed into the house... it must be Francis I'm thinking of well... anyway....Francis must have been about 5 when...."



It's stories like this that make me love life.

I thought the header for this thread alluded to the American Presidential Election for 2000.

as you were...

oh no! hope the shit doesn't hit the fan!

Never mind!
[Edited 8/13/08 5:47am]

Not only should this thread be a sticky, it should be highlighted on the home page.

It's a once-in-a-lifetime event...

Byron said:

You're just jealous 'cause you wanted to say something corny like that. Don't front.


And contemporary art *is* the shit---check out Chris Ofili's work.

Paul McCartney is making giant dog turds? I thought that was Yoko!




Okay, I know it said "McCarthy", but how many of you thought it was talking about the former Beatle at first?

JediMaster said:

They both create shitty art. (I hope Byron doesn't have anymore tomatoes)

DevotedPuppy said:

I love his work ...

I need to go to a few art galleries and museums ...I haven't been to one since New York lol...

ArielB said:

Good thing for you I don't ...