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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: philw on June 09, 2011, 07:34:01 AM
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http://www.news.com.au/technology/schools-giant-cock-up-for-world-to-see/story-e6frfro0-1226071650963
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School's giant cock-up for world to see
(http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2011/06/08/1226071/658800-fairfield.jpg)
Yep, it's still there. In case you were wondering. Picture: Google Maps
CROP circles might be known for their beauty and paranormal allure, but the giant phalluses etched into the field of a New Zealand high school hold no such mystique.
Fairfield College, in the North Island town of Hamilton, has been snapped by satellite cameras with six huge penises burnt into the grass.
The x-rated images, immortalised on the website Google Earth, were spotted by Kiwi David McQuoid while scanning the neighbourhood online looking for a property.
"At first I thought it was a large piece of artwork," he said of the shot, which shows cartoon-like phalluses of various sizes, some several metres across.
Publicity around the so-called Fairfield Phalluses has embarrassed the school's acting principal Gerhard van Dyk, who told the Waikato Times it was hard enough to deal with when the prank was pulled back in 2009.
It happened over a weekend but it wasn't until the grass died off bit by bit that phallic symbols started to pop up around the school grounds.
Every week another crude image revealed itself, much to the dismay of staff.
"There's not really much we could do about it," he told the newspaper.
"The caretaker took some more weedkiller and tried to camouflage it a bit."
Mr van Dyk never caught the culprits and the prank would no doubt have passed into schoolboy folklore had it not been captured by Google Maps.
The red-faced principal said he would be contacting Google to plead for the image's removal but an internet privacy specialist said it was difficult to get such satellite photographs changed or blurred.
Kiwis however, thought the prank was hilarious, with 70 adding mostly encouraging comments to the online story, like "Freakin brilliant!!! Love it!!! Classic piece of adolescent artwork."
One gave the artists an A+, top marks for cunning, planning, chemistry and geometry, while another said their anatomy detailing left a lot to be desired.
"I totally reckon it was actually girls," they wrote.
Then came a confession: "HAHAHA!!! we did this as our 7th form prank, now it lives on! how awesome!"
Six giant penises in schoolyard
Drawn with weedkiller
Not funny. Not funny at all
o yes it is, very funny ;D ;D ;D
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There is more to this than simple graffiti.
Consider that the images were accurately created in a more or less blind condition, A certain amount of surveying skill was needed in order to properly place the weedkiller, which could not be seen as it was placed.
It is similar to a graffiti version of the "Nazca Plains".
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Well, where are the other 4?
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Well, where are the other 4?
http://maps.google.com.au/maps?hl=en&q=fairfield+college+hamilton&ie=UTF8&hq=fairfield+college+hamilton&hnear=&radius=15000&ll=-37.762197,175.275756&spn=0.002017,0.004128&t=h&z=19
look for ya self they are there! LOL
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Boner U.
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That has to the coolest HS prank ever. First, they didn't get caught. Second, they can say "You can see it from space dude"! Third, a bunch of old farts on the other side of the world are laughing about it two years later. I feel like a rank amateur. :-[ Good for them. ;D
FQ13
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That has to the coolest HS prank ever. First, they didn't get caught. Second, they can say "You can see it from space dude"! Third, a bunch of old farts on the other side of the world are laughing about it two years later. I feel like a rank amateur. :-[ Good for them. ;D
FQ13
Agreed, and we thought it was cool when we carried a teachers car from the car park and placed on the steps leading up to the school or put potatoes in their exhaust. Ahhh we was rank amatuers!
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Agreed, and we thought it was cool when we carried a teachers car from the car park and placed on the steps leading up to the school or put potatoes in their exhaust. Ahhh we was rank amatuers!
In 1965 me and a bunch of my ne'er-do-well friends picked up the wrestling coach's VW bug and placed the front wheels over the parking stop. We knew there wasn't enough power in that little VW to get it backed over the concrete curb and we knew the resulting coach frustration would be world class humor.
Coach came out, took a look, assessed the situation, then grabbed the front bumper and lifted the dang car to the proper side of the parking stop. Laughing was not involved.
Next day, coach politely inquired if any of knew who the culprits might be. None of us did, so we ALL did laps for the full gym period. Laughing was STILL not involved.
We wuz rank amateurs, indeed. And tired, tloo.