Posted on 07/22/2012 6:30:02 AM PDT by Libloather
Penn State president orders Paterno statue removal
Associated Press – 4 mins 2 secs ago
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Penn State University will remove the famed statue of Joe Paterno outside its football stadium, eliminating a key piece of the iconography surrounding the once-sainted football coach accused of burying child sex abuse allegations against a retired assistant.
The university said Sunday that it will take down the larger-than-life monument in the face of an investigative report by former FBI Director Louis Freeh that found the late coach, along with three top Penn State administrators, concealed the abuse claims against Jerry Sandusky more than a decade ago in order to shield the university and its football program from negative publicity.
Construction vehicles and police arrived shortly after dawn Sunday, barricading the street and sidewalks near the statue, erecting a chain-link fence then concealing the statue with a blue tarp.
A live video feed posted on the website of the Centre Daily Times of State College showed workers in white hard hats draping a plastic sheet over the statue, preparing for its removal.
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Pathetic.
I liked the idea of putting it on a rotating pedestal so he can look the other way. LOL
That’s a shame.
One student even vowed to “chain myself to that statue” if there was an attempt to remove it.
Put him in a cell with Jerry.
The State Penn needs to put former Prezzy Spanier (the noted Wife Swapping Studies Scholar) in the stocks in front of the Admin Building and fire him from his cushy professorial job.
Joe Pa took what he thought was the easy way out....and destroyed the lives of at least a dozen children.
hopefully the NCAA will pull their ability to play sports under their governance for at least 5 years.
I hope they do too.
Should be more like after five years of the sports death penalty. Let everyone there opt to transfer without the penalties.
I like the idea of cutting the crotch out of it with a blowtorch.
Because when he needed to do the right thing and protect kids who were being sexually abused by a pedophile, Paterno was a dickless wonder with no balls at all.
Let the statue be made to conform to the man.
Perfect, just perfect!
It’s a shame that Joe Paterno did not live long enough to see this day.
Or how about just use the torch to heat up his hips to bend him over with his head in the dirt and his arsche in the air, just so Sandusky has something to dream about.
He is seeing it, on every coffee break.
Old joke;
Paterno meets his maker and his judgement. Upon arriving in hell, Satan greets his new arrival and explaining he will spend eternity with the countless others he sees in a pit. Everyone is standing up to their chests in what can only be described as the Port-o-let discharges and drinking coffee. He figures he will get past the smell over time and is shoved into the awaiting crowd.
About five minutes after his cup of coffee just appears in his hands, a loud horn blasts three times, the coffee disappears and the announcement comes from above, Coffee break is over, everyone back standing on your heads!
Thanks for that, I laughed hard, it’s a great idea too!
Perfect!
Heard that more than one person was going to chain themselves to the statue. And “JoePa’s” (doesn’t the name JoePa have a nice, kindly, grandfatherly ring to it? sarc/) name will remain on the library. They need to erase every trace of the bastard, not just take down the statue.
I hope they pepper spray and taze him.
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