Mooning Statue Irks Austrian Town

By Alex in Art, Travel on Apr 17, 2008 at 12:31 pm

A statue recently installed on the German bordertown of Simbach is causing a stirr in the neighboring town of Braunau, Austria.

Why? Because the statue is of a naked man riding a giant fish, symbolizing the personification of the Inn River, which marks the border between Germany and Austria. That’s all fine and good, except Braunau noticed that the naked man is "mooning" their town!

Deputy Mayor Helmut Bogner, said: "This creature has his butt straight in our face. We, the people of Braunau, don’t appreciate this gesture and we want it moved."

And the statue’s name? "Aenus" the Latin name for the River (suuuuuree!): Link [translated from German, with larger photo] | Ananova article

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tlj
Apr 17th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Ha!
L
Apr 17th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Doesn’t matter which way they turn it. He’s always going to be mooning someone!
CheeseDuck
Apr 17th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Yeah. Uh. A statue is mooning their town?
seekshelter
Apr 17th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
i wish i could find a better picture of it, but there is a status at Texas State University of some naked dudes on horses with ridiculously huge balls. everyone touches them.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryankealy/131664594/
csbmonkney
Apr 17th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Oh please!
http://www.bhamonline.com/areasights/vulcan.htm

I mean, this thing is known as “Moon Over Homewood”. That’s how I did the search to get this link.

Here is a more current picture:
http://thisis.durkin.org/inpictures/group/69599411@N00/photo/79951511/ -vulcans-rear-aka-the-moon-over-homewood.html
ted
Apr 17th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
I couldn’t see any ridiculously huge balls in that picture. All talk, no balls…

Cool idea – mooning a city.
fsmarch
Apr 18th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
In NYC, across the street from the Plaza Hotel, there is an ornate statue of some war hero, riding his trusty stallion into history.

The problem, however, was that some horse’s *sses (no pun intended), staying at the Plaza, objected to the fact that the horse’s butt faced them.

The statue was reversed, at great expense, about 30 years ago.
tomtheman5
Apr 23rd, 2008 at 8:33 am
Aenus…lol

You can’t make that stuff up

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