California Bridge Sculpture Is Literally for the Dogs ($196K tax money for statue of dogs mating)

foxnews.com ^ | February 11, 2009 | Nora Zimmett

[nobama08]

Dogs do the darndest things.They poop, they hump and they sniff in all the wrong places.

And now you can see them do all of the above every time you cross the pedestrian bridge over Interstate 80 in Berkeley, Calif., thanks to the largesse of the taxpayers.

Artist Scott Donahue of Emeryville, Calif., was paid $196,000 by Berkeley's public arts program to create two large statues, which feature small, artistic medallions that show dogs doing what dogs do best.

"Various things," Donahue said. "Biting each other, chasing each other…. One dog is defecating, two dogs are fornicating."

[nobama08]

No wonder California has a major budge crisis. Idiots.

[autumnraine]

I don’t know what’s funnier. That they spent nearly $200,000 on dog statues or that the guy described animal mating as “fornicating”.

[Cindy]

[Brilliant]

You'd think that for $196,000, they'd at least look like they were enjoying it.

[ozark hilljilly]

I wonder what archeologists would make of those, 500-600 years from now. (provided we're even around.)

[AuntB]

Berkley. Please don’t confuse that with California.

[Texas Eagle]

... two dogs are fornicating."

For some reason that brings to mind an old joke that I am having trouble remembering in its entirety.

It had something to do with a young Indian boy asking his father how he decided what to name his children.

If it comes back to me I'll post it.

[2111USMC]

LOL!

I can only remember the punchline!

[BCR #226]

And they wonder why California is in a financial meltdown...

Mike

[antonia]

The figures are poorly realized, and the craftsmanship is sloppy ugly.

[Texas Eagle]

I can only remember the punchline!

I seem to remember the father making reference to one of his children as Soaring Eagle and another as Prancing Deer.

[padre35]

I can think of no place better to put a statue of a Pooch Screwing then Berkley...LOL!

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Muslims will save us from this insult to their founder!

[LasVegasMac]

Every time I talk to Oscar I ask, "Has the Kalifungus filter been installed yet?"

Ok, Arnie, 2 unpaid days a month ain't gonna get it.

Flip it - you now get to work 2 days a month.

Oh, and the IOU is in the mail.

What a joke.

[editor-surveyor]

"

I can: In front of the north entrance to the state capitol building in Sacramento. (BTW, that's Berkeley, not Berkley)

[editor-surveyor]

"I can think of no place better to put a statue of a Pooch Screwing then Berkley"

I can: In front of the north entrance to the state capitol building in Sacramento. (BTW, that's Berkeley, not Berkley)

[KosmicKitty]

Artist Scott Donahue of Emeryville, Calif., was paid $196,000 by Berkeley's public arts program to create two large statues, which feature small, artistic medallions that show dogs doing what dogs do best.

Damn!

I'm in the wrong field.

[tanuki]

One day, a young brave asked his father the old chief, how he came to have his name.

‘Son,’ said the chief, ‘I follow the tribal tradition. When a brave of our tribe is born, the father steps out of the teepee and names him after the first thing he sees. And so your brothers are named Soaring Eagle and Prancing Deer. So why do you ask, Two Dogs F******?’

When I was in junior high, that joke was all the rage.

[nobama08]

I don’t consider California part of the U.S.