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Banksy hits Rio (OBL Related)

dirtydirty 93 Posts
edited June 2011 in Strut Central
Not sure if this is real.....but if it was.....

http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2011/06/03/banksy-hits-rio/

Art News: Banksy, the international clandestine graffiti ninja, pulled off his greatest ever stunt last night, transforming Rio de Janeiro???s ???Christ the Redeemer??? into a 39.6 metre high statue of Osama Bin Laden.

With allegations of police corruption running rife, the James Bond of modern art was somehow able to approach the giant statue by helicopter, apparently using a specially adapted cannister and spray nozzle ??? similar to that used for insecticide ??? to apply the paint.
Hanging from the helicopter as it hovered in front of one of the world???s most famous landmarks, Banksy was able to finish his spray-paint amendments within a couple of hours. The affect is astonishing: Bin Laden???s arms outstretched as if waiting for death, the first bullet hole just appearing in his body.
Both tight-lipped and tongue-in-cheek, Banksy is famously complicated in the mouth department, with no comment, communication, or even hint as to what he is trying to say.
???I believe is trying to say that Bin Laden is the modern Christ,??? says resident Mario Ombligo, ???and for that may he burn in hell.???
Rio???s citizens are up in arms ??? and since they were already heavily armed, those arms are now piling up really quite high.
???We don???t quite know how he managed it,??? says mayor Romario Valdez. ???But if he hides his face here again, we will, um???.???

  Comments

  • HorseleechHorseleech 3,830 Posts
    That's like the UK version of the Onion.
  • dirtydirty 93 Posts
    Makes sense. Would be pretty amazing if he pulled some shit off like that.
  • MoogManMoogMan Sao Paulo, Brazil 1,173 Posts
    This is pure crap! There's nothing about it in the media here.
    Btw, Rio Major's name is Eduardo Paes and not Romario Valdez as it says in the text.
    Obviously, this is a prank.
  • countmaculacountmacula 196 Posts
    The website is called The Poke.
  • jaymackjaymack 5,199 Posts
    It really frightens me, for the future of the world, how people can read an article as ridiculous as this one, and think for one moment it might be real. Thats a dangerous thing.
  • novocaine132novocaine132 337 Posts
  • eliseelise 3,252 Posts
    jaymack said:
    It really frightens me, for the future of the world, how people can read an article as ridiculous as this one, and think for one moment it might be real. Thats a dangerous thing.

    http://literallyunbelievable.org/

  • spivyspivy 866 Posts
    elise said:
    jaymack said:
    It really frightens me, for the future of the world, how people can read an article as ridiculous as this one, and think for one moment it might be real. Thats a dangerous thing.

    http://literallyunbelievable.org/

    i was just going to post this. you beat me to it.
  • eliseelise 3,252 Posts
    Muwahahahaha!
  • jaymackjaymack 5,199 Posts
    haha yeah ive seen some ridiculous stories posted on facebook and it slays me the number of people that have no common sense or comprehension.

    reminds me, this morning one of the strippers on my page posted "found a detention slip in my old ROTC uniform HAHA ironic"
    is it ironic? is that alanis morissette's definition of the word, maybe?
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