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The highly reported guerrilla-art statue of a red Satan with an erection was apparently so offensive that the city decided to take it down within hours of its installation at Clark Drive and Grandview Highway on early Tuesday morning. Whereas now, hundreds of people have signed two separate online petitions in order to urge the city to bring back the two-and-a-half-metre tall statue of Satan grabbing his large erection with one hand and throwing up devil horns with the other.
The lusty Lucifer is currently in a works yard as The City of Vancouver waits for its owner to come claim it. However, the signatories of two online petitions are outraged that the city took it down, alleging that it was nothing but a unique free piece of public art while helping pay almost $100,000 for a Main Street poodle installation. The online petition writer, Darryl Greer, mentioned that “the Giant Satan-With-an-Erection statue, unlike the porcelain dog, cost the city nothing and was far more visible and likely to stir public debate than the barely visible (sic) cartoonish canine on a pole.”
The statue was installed on a pedestal previously occupied by a statue of a young Christopher Columbus that has since been moved to Hastings Park. Author of the other online petition, Kirsten Hadfield, wrote that “Satan has done a lot less harm than Columbus and therefore should be less offensive.” It was stressed that “all of the harm attributed to Satan lacks proof, where Columbus is a historical sign of colonialism and imperialism, which is one of the greatest travesties in human history, and its effects continue to have a negative impact on the society we live in.”
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