Re: religious pundits agree: too many airports have phallic designs!

Airports shmairports! - how about schools in New Zealand? :-)

Pictures at the link...

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/5114020/Penis-prank-caught-by-Google-satellite

<http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/5114020/Penis-prank-caught-by-Google-satellite>

England has the Cerne Abbas giant and the Uffington White Horse, Peru has
the Nazca Lines and now a Waikato school, rather unfortunately, has been
captured with it's own aerial art - six giant phallic symbols.

The prank at a Hamilton school has been caught by satellite and immortalised
on an internet map potentially seen by millions around the world.

The satellite picture, taken in May 2009, shows six phallic shapes etched
into the grass at Fairfield College, with two by the car park particularly
gigantic.

The Fairfield phalluses would no doubt have eventually passed into the
twilight of sniggering schoolboy folklore had they not been snapped from
space and used to compile the Google map used by millions of web browsers
daily.

David McQuoid was searching for a property when he came across the
surprising snaps.

"At first I thought it was a large piece of art work."

But acting principal Gerhard van Dyk was not amused and said he would like
to have caught the culprits.

Unfortunately, the incident had happened on a weekend.

By Monday, Mr van Dyk said the caretaker became aware of some of the grass
dying, as the x-rated crop circles popped up around the school.

It was the prank that kept growing as the grass completely died away and the
crude creations of the "artists" were revealed.

"There's not really much we could do about it," he said. "The caretaker took
some more weedkiller and tried to camouflage it a bit."

The rest of the grass was killed, but it was a few months before the rude
renderings disappeared. But by then an eye in the sky had snapped these
images - which the Times has chosen to cover. Mr van Dyk said he would
contact Google.

A spokesperson for the internet giant said the Earth images came directly
from satellite pictures, unlike the Google Street View shots, which could be
blurred for privacy reasons.

Netsafe executive director Martin Cocker said he had heard about similar
instances of people trying to find infamy but things hung around a lot
longer on the web.
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Andrew Irwin




On 8 June 2011 05:33, Peter T. Chattaway <petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Jun 2011, Karl Swenson wrote:
>
>> And they wonder why people think Christians are loopy....
>>
>
> Well, one of the two links here concerns a loopy Muslim ... but yeah, we
> have our loops as well ...
>
>
>  > I don't know why I came across both of these items within the last >
>> three days, but somehow, I did (one of them via a Facebook friend's > wall,
>> another via some conservative pundits' blog):
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOQsvOkkLq4
>> http://weaselzippers.us/2011/06/06/saudi-cleric-warns-of-western-conspiracy-design-of-jedda-airport-resembles-a-penis-and-a-vagina/
>>
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