Mexico to erect statue to swine flu 'patient zero'

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.7bd5d2d0df7fb567cbad3ffbc7f8da6a.411&show_article=1 ^

[traumer]

A state in eastern Mexico is to erect a statue to a small boy suspected as being the first patient of swine flu here, to be modeled on the famous Manneken Pis statue of a child urinating in Brussels.

Five-year-old Edgar Hernandez appeared in media across the world after the health ministry in April confirmed that he had contracted, and overcome, the A(H1N1) virus at the start of the epidemic's outbreak here.

Hernandez's role in putting his poor village of La Gloria on the map merited recognition in the shape of a small statue -- resembling the famous Belgian landmark -- Fidel Herrera Beltran, the governor of Veracruz state in eastern Mexico, told local media on Sunday.

"La Gloria is now an important tourist destination. Next week we'll inaugurate a statue of the child Edgar Hernandez that resembles the Manneken Pis in Brussels, Belgium, for having carried out a similar exploit," Beltran said.

There are several legends behind the Manneken Pis, including one in which an infant lord urinated on enemy troops, who were eventually defeated.

[traumer]

[stentorian conservative]

Okay, that was funny.

[Winstons Julia]

I always heard he peed to put out a fire. I lived in Belgium for 5 years. He also has a BUNCH of costumes that they dress him in. One was a football uniform from my school.

There’s a Mickey Mouse costume, too.

[humblegunner]

Next week we'll inaugurate a statue of the child Edgar Hernandez

Piss on him.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

And I will order a large sheet cake.

[Levante]

He ought to be pissing on the eagle/serpent of Mexico.

[SwinneySwitch]

That’s a pisser!;^}