Man protests Vermont town government with massive, $4,000 middle finger sculpture

WCAX-TV ^ | 12/05/2018 | Cat Viglienzoni

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

The Westford Select Board says they cannot remove the sculpture as it is considered public art. WCAX-TV, 9:50 AM

WESTFORD, Vt. (AP) — A man says he built a massive sculpture of a middle finger off a Vermont highway to show the local government how he really feels.

Ted Pelkey tells WCAX-TV he spent $4,000 on the sculpture near Route 128 in Westford.

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He says he’s been in a long-running dispute with town officials over whether he can develop his property and move his truck repair and recycling business there.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

[TnTnTn]

I mean can you do that anymore?...thought the FA was relegated to the dust bin of history....

[Opinionated Blowhard]

LOL. But as amusing as this is, it probably violates some public obscenity law and will be taken down.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

FA?

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

The local govt says they can’t do anything because it’s public art.

[billorites]

Mr. Pelkey should move his businesses over to New Hampshire.

No income tax, no sales tax, no bottle deposit, you can hunt on Sundays and gun ownership is mandatory.

[Rurudyne]

We need him to place one of these opposite the UN building....

[billorites]

FA?

A long,long way to go...

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Would probably cost $40M to do that in NYC.

[1Old Pro]

Mr. Pelkey should move his businesses over to New Hampshire. No income tax, no sales tax, no bottle deposit, you can hunt on Sundays and gun ownership is mandatory.

Until the MAssholes and New Yawkers and the CT commies infiltrate NH like they are doing up and down the seaboard.

[Vigilanteman]

. . . it probably violates some public obscenity law . . .

In Libtard Vermont? Where porn, promiscuity and public debauchery are celebrated as human rights? Why?

[billorites]

"Until the MAssholes and New Yawkers and the CT commies infiltrate NH like they are doing up and down the seaboard."

Turns out that immigrants to NH, at least the ones from Massachusetts, vote more conservative than native born New Hampshire folk.

A surprise to me.

[Rurudyne]

It would have to be expensive to get them to consider it to be public art. Maybe multiracial too ... say a number of male and female hands of various races all flipping off the UN.

[Buckeye McFrog]

it probably violates some public obscenity law and will be taken down.

After a thirteen year First Amendment case winds its way to SCOTUS.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

I guess a $4K image is considered expensive in Westford.

[a fool in paradise]

Laugh-In’s fickle finger of fate award goes to...

[logi_cal869]

$220,000 for this monstrosity in my region, not even paid to local artists by the city.

[I want the USA back]

Vermont, once a nice place, until the feminist liberals all went there and turned it into a feminazi paradise.
New Hampshire rapidly becoming the same.

[rlmorel]

Don't sell those states like NH and ME short when it comes to Leftists in their population. All states, even states like Texas have them.

Conservative states have their own home-grown leftists who do just fine at destroying their own state. I travel to them and was there in the weeks leading up to election day last month and had a chance to see their political commercials and the signs on the sides of the roads and do some cursory investigation, I found a few candidates who were not natives. It is true, however, that many did go to school at places we would see as bastions as Leftism.

Then mechanism of people from nearby leftist states doesn't help (As Vermont can attest to due to decades of New Yorkers seeping in) just blaming it on immigration from Leftist states is largely a crutch for a lot of people who cannot find it in themselves to find a way to win elections.

You see this in a lot of places around the country. The only one I give real credence to right now is Virginia being in such close proximity to DC and Maryland, though the process didn't happen overnight.

My wife and I watched "White Christmas" the other night, and there was an exchange that I somehow missed in years past...the movie was made in 1954, and Vermont was so conservative that a Democrat up there just might get rocks thrown at him...

EXCHANGE FROM WHITE CHRISTMAS:

PHIL DAVIS: We've got to stay up here and dream up some way of getting people to come into this place.

BOB WALLACE: What do you suggest?

PHIL DAVIS: I don't know.

BOB WALLACE:It should be something unusual, some kind of a novelty... T

PHIL DAVIS: Tell me, brainstorm, what do you think would be a novelty up here in Vermont?

BOB WALLACE:Who knows? Maybe we can dig up a Democrat?

PHIL DAVIS: They'd stone him!

And look at it now. Just going up to that beautiful state is enough to worry any conservative they might get contact contamination, it is so Leftist.

[SES1066]

Vermont, once a nice place, until the feminist liberals all went there and turned it into a feminazi paradise.

There is, although I can't remember the name right off hand, a 1960s counter-culture novel about free love in a college setting. I vaguely remember some historian mentioning that a theme in the novel was for the 'hippies' to take over a small New England state and he thought that fiction became truth in Vermont.