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He calls himself Wanksy

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[-] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 57 points 2 years ago
[-] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It was shared in a comment on a different lemmy post earlier today, someone made a post out of it.

But who cares, anyway? What difference does the date make? The community is "Funny", not "News". If it hasn't been posted before, and it fits the subject, by all means.

[-] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 years ago

Still works to this day though.

[-] RDAM_Whiskers@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

Reddits bots are leaking.

[-] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Technique still works

[-] Amphobet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 2 years ago

Chaotic Good

[-] HootinNHollerin@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago

The name is genius

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 12 points 2 years ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Frustrated by the number of potholes pockmarking his city streets, an anonymous man recently discovered a way to get the city to pay attention: penises.

The man has been using industrial chalk to draw penises around each pothole, claiming the eyesores expedite the filling process, BBC reports.

They'll be there for months," the artist, who calls himself Wanksy, told BBC's Newsbeat.

"Suddenly you draw something amusing around it, everyone sees it, and it either gets reported or fixed."

The town council, unsurprisingly, says the work is both unnecessary and obscene, claiming a penis frame will not get a pothole fixed any faster than usual.

The artist notes the drawings will fade away in "a week or two," so the vandalism isn't permanent — it's just a temporary, creative way of getting something done.


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[-] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

I've been tempted to try it in my city but I figure there would be a statewide manhunt for the Mad Penis Painter but no potholes filled.

[-] Shelbyeileen@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

The community in Colorado Springs does this. If they clean up the graffiti, but don't fix the pothole, there will be more graffiti within a few days

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If this was done where I live, the city/county would have merely painted over the dick instead of fixing the pothole.

[-] arin@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Try it and find out

[-] FurtiveFugitive@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

At first glance, before I read the headline, I thought this was a picture taken from a drone and we were looking at a huge wang around a small lake.

[-] dojan@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

My sleep addled brain saw that as an aerial photo and had a hard time comprehending how someone drew a massive cock around an entire city.

[-] Beardedsausag3@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

the drawings will fade away in "a week or two,"

Pretty sure the drawing will still last longer than that shoddy job of filling.

[-] denast@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Reminds me of people in Russia painting "NAVALNY" on snow piles (Ex liberal opposition leader, currently imprisoned) in order for communal services to clean them up lol

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