Posted on 12/02/2016 6:32:39 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
The sculpture — which cost $750,000 — sent more than a dozen people to the hospital due to serious health complications... Several people suffered severe allergic reactions to cedar dust the sculpture constantly shed, and a dozen workers were hospitalized... “One employee required an 11-day hospital stay and none have been able to return to work at the new field office.”
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Maybe she was halfway joking. The statement reads as though she thinks the wood sculpture was sentient, meaning imbued with a native intelligence. It sounds as though she’s saying the wood sculpture ‘decided’ who to make sick and affected the most ‘threatening’ targets first. I think she was using
‘black humor’, common among co-workers.
It’s a beautiful piece, grand and formidable.
Alas, it is also a Trojan Horse which has later become a White Elephant. Set it outside in the open air, about an acre away from any walking trail or donate it to Burning Man.
I’ve made poops that were more artistic than that.
Just sayin’ . . .
What the hell does that mean?
ROFLOL!
At least the storage shed won’t have a moth problem.
Whoever authorized this abomination should be summarily fired right NOW!
And -- why the heck did the FBI think it had the right to spend so much of our money on a piece of junk for its entry hall?
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Da*ned out-of-control, worthless bureaucrats!
Can someone list something the FBI has done right lately?
A butt ugly piece of so-called art which looks like it’s been eaten by termites.
The interior of the building is ugly as hell, too.
The IRS takes our money at the point of a gun and the Eff Bee Eye squanders our hard earned money on this crap?
FBI = F——— Bunch of Idiots!
Looks like a BM to me...
It is the law, that art MUST be included in Federal buildings.
Ding, ding, ding - we have a thread winnah!
“Why it’d think the nurse would be a threat is open to conjecture.”
Because who will be around to treat the next victims. Sounds like a plan to me!
Yes, a certain percentage of the total cost. At the SeaTac airport they added a runway. On one of the huge new retaining walls there is a relief sculpture on all of the panels of the walls. Estimated at $1 million dollars. Oh - the artwork is in the secure area of the airport alongside a maintenance road far from the terminal or where planes might see it. It can be glimpsed by the public on side roads if you know where to peek between the bushes and chainlink fence 130 yards away.
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/art-as-a-symbol-of-port-waste/
Compare and contrast this taxpayer spending to the deal Indiana made with Carrier.
That's what I was thinking. Rather than spend $1.2 million carting it away, spend a few bucks and spray it with a sealing varnish. Problem solved.
What really made them sick was knowing a million dollars of their hard earn tax dollars went for it. Government waste needs to stop.
I know. I suppose some snowflake would hyperventilate about polyurethane fumes if they did that. Drop it in my yard. That would be a lifetime supply of firewood for me.
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Allergic to cedar dust???
Not buying that explanation.
More likely some kind of mold.
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