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Teen paints giant penis on his parents' roof (to attract Google Earth viewers)
AdelaideNow ^
| 3/26/2009
| DAVID MURRAY, LONDON
Posted on 03/26/2009 11:36:19 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
A STUDENT has some scrubbing to do after his parents discovered he'd painted an 18m-long penis on their roof to get his home noticed on Google Earth. Rory McInnes, 18, decided to make his family home stand out after watching a documentary about Google Earth.
Armed with a tin of white paint, he climbed on top of the $2 million home in Berkshire, south east England, and set to work.
His artwork remained unnoticed for 12 months until a helicopter pilot spotted it and swooped down low so his passengers could take photos.
Dad Andy thought it was a prank call when a British newspaper contacted him about the painting this week.
"It's an April Fool's joke, right? There's no way there's a 60ft phallus on top of my house,'' Mr McInnes told The Sun.
He confronted his four children, finding his answers when he reached Rory over the phone in Brazil.
Part-way through gap-year travels, Rory could not hold back his laughter as he confessed: "Oh, so you've found it then.''
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Kids do the darnedest things!;-)
Pic at source.
To: SonOfDarkSkies
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posted on
03/26/2009 11:37:52 AM PDT
by
LottieDah
(If only those who speak so eloquently on the rights of animals would do so on behalf the unborn)
To: SonOfDarkSkies
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posted on
03/26/2009 11:39:05 AM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Obama dozed.....people froze.)
To: SonOfDarkSkies
Looks like a Bomb Magnet?
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posted on
03/26/2009 11:39:08 AM PDT
by
usmcobra
(Your chances of dying in bed are reduced by getting out of it, but most people still die in bed)
To: SonOfDarkSkies
What’s the teen’s name again? Dick?
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posted on
03/26/2009 11:39:10 AM PDT
by
Ben Reyes
(Palin 2012)
To: SonOfDarkSkies
LOL! Funny picture.
(That's the fastest click I ever did.)
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posted on
03/26/2009 11:39:31 AM PDT
by
synbad600
To: SonOfDarkSkies
Somebody should ask him if the painting was a sympathetic-magic focus intended to cure his erectile dysfunction.
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posted on
03/26/2009 11:40:13 AM PDT
by
steve-b
(Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
To: SonOfDarkSkies
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posted on
03/26/2009 11:40:17 AM PDT
by
SIDENET
(President Obama's teleprompter has issued a stern warning to corporate executives)
To: SonOfDarkSkies
His artwork remained unnoticed for 12 months until a helicopter pilot spotted it and swooped down low so his passengers could take photos.So his parents gave him an extra 12 months of life then.
If only they had known earlier.
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posted on
03/26/2009 11:40:54 AM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, Question everyone else)
To: SonOfDarkSkies
Imagine if he painted the AIG logo on there. Would’ve gotten the house burned down.
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posted on
03/26/2009 11:40:59 AM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: SonOfDarkSkies
I love that it took the family 12 months to find it!
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posted on
03/26/2009 11:42:25 AM PDT
by
ninergold3
("Has it ever occurred to you that nothing occurs to God?" -Mark Lowry)
To: SIDENET
That boy ain’t right. Nope, definitely a leftist liberal. ; )
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posted on
03/26/2009 11:42:32 AM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, Question everyone else)
To: LottieDah
Here's the Cerne Abbas Giant carving (and Homer) in the UK which was (I presume) a model for the drawing...
To: SonOfDarkSkies
death would have been fast If I had done this as a kid to my folk’s home!
To: SonOfDarkSkies
Too funny! Judging by the size of the house, the kid probably has a lot of spare time and money on his hands. Kudos to him for using it in a harmless and amusing way. An awful lot of rich kids don’t.
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
Nice house!That's what I thought.
To: Ben Reyes
What’s the teen’s name again? Dick? Don't know, but it took some balls to get up there and paint that on the roof.
Hope he's not too cocky about it.
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posted on
03/26/2009 11:45:19 AM PDT
by
SIDENET
(President Obama's teleprompter has issued a stern warning to corporate executives)
To: EGPWS
Probably the effect of attending an all boys school.
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posted on
03/26/2009 11:46:32 AM PDT
by
SIDENET
(President Obama's teleprompter has issued a stern warning to corporate executives)
To: SonOfDarkSkies
If this was the Gephardt residence would it be "Un Grande Loco Deeko"?
That is really funny if you remember Rush during the Republican Revolution in the House and Senate....
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posted on
03/26/2009 11:47:31 AM PDT
by
taildragger
(Palin / Mulally 2012)
To: SonOfDarkSkies
He need a luggage gift and shown the door.
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posted on
03/26/2009 11:47:53 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(American voters can fix this world if they would just wake up.)
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