Brickbat: Candygram

In 1986, Bill Heine installed a sculpture of a 25-foot shark crashing through the roof of his home in Oxford, England, to make an anti-war, anti-nuclear statement. He did it without getting the approval of local planning officials, said his son Magnus Hanson-Heine, because he didn't believe the government should be able to decide what art people should see. The local council spent years trying to get it removed. But they've now changed their mind and declared the shark a protected landmark, against the wishes of Hanson-Heine, who still owns the house. "Using the planning apparatus to preserve a historical symbol of planning law defiance is absurd on the face of it," said Hanson-Heine.

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[SQRLSY One]

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[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

What about lonely sharks? Asking for a friend on my roof.

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[mad.casual]

"Using the planning apparatus to preserve a historical symbol of planning law defiance is absurd on the face of it," said Hanson-Heine.

Welcome to post-truth reality. Your unchecked faith in humanity is misplaced.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"Oh, you want to remove the shark that we demanded must go? Now its a permanent National Landmark. FYTW."

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[Fist of Etiquette]

The bureaucrats get a well-deserved win.

[The Encogitationer]

They'll be saying that when the shark's laser beams get them! 🙂

[sarcasmic]

Kinda reminds me of the dolphin tree in Kennebunk.

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[Will Nonya]

You have to wonder whether they just wanted to make it difficult for him to remove the shark or sell the property.

[mad.casual]

Unless you understand that the point was to punish him by any means possible, then the supposed flip flop doesn't really seem inconsistent.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Power is as power does.

[JerrySTL]

I was lucky enough to see that shark a few times when I was stationed at nearby RAF Upper Heyford around 1990. It was considered a tourist attraction even then.

[Brandybuck]

I have a theory that every town has at least one gadfly/nutter/wildeye who will ride the ragged edge of the codes if he can. The city I lived in immediately prior to this had an apartment building where the owner had painted the relevant municipal code on the walls to prove his case regarding whatever it was he was on about. He think he finally died when his aorta exploded while yelling at someone.

[The Encogitationer]

Sad, especially when you consider it is the real dangerous nutters who have power, most notably, the normie, family man, PTA member, Lutheran Churchman, Local-Code Enforcer named Dennis Rader a.k.a. The BTK Serial Murderer.

[bizn43]

Statists will use any tool they can to F you.

[Eric Hanneken]

Now Hanson-Heine has his own chance to defy the planners.

[Brandybuck]

He put it up without permission, he can take it down again too. Or replace it with a giant electric penguin. If the council couldn't make him take it down, why would they be able to make him put it back up?

[Agammamon]

Different set of laws.

Now the council has the power to tell him what to do with the whole property - and failure to comply allows them to seize it all.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

I would go with giant penis.

[mad.casual]

Like have a giant human penis grafted onto the shark or reshape the shark entirely to represent a human penis?

I'm kinda liking the former so that if the council protests you can punch back with asking why the council hates transgendered sharks. You could probably sell the whole penis graft onto the house the same way but the shark with a human penis seems funnier, IMO.

[The Encogitationer]

And installation of a strap-on is much easier. 🙂

[mad.casual]

Having never put a penis or a strap-on on a shark, I'll take your word for it. 🙂

[Agammamon]

"Using the planning apparatus to preserve a historical symbol of planning law defiance is absurd on the face of it," said Hanson-Heine.

Yes, but one day you're going to need to remove that shark - and if you do they'll throw you in jail.

Or they'll tell you about the repairs you must make to the shark and all the restrictions you must follow to preserve authenticity - and if you fail they'll take the house and throw you on jail.

[Don't look at me!]

Or there was an accidental fire.

[perlmonger]

At City Hall.

[Dillinger]

no I do not own a Guido Fawkes mask, por que?

[CE]

"I know it sounds hard to believe your Honor, but there was this unfortunate boating accident. Maybe the driver saw the shark and got confused."

[The Encogitationer]

Now there's a real "fish story." 😉

[mad.casual]

Pull a Richard M. Daley and bulldoze it in the middle of the night. Claim it was a matter of national security or whatever other hot button political issue will get it dismissed.

[CE]

"Using the planning apparatus to preserve a historical symbol of planning law defiance is absurd on the face of it," said Hanson-Heine.

Seems kind of poetic, actually.

[Dillinger]

lol even when government loses it wins.

[Liborio]

Don't mess with the local council.

[The Encogitationer]

Brickbat: Candygram

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[Entelechy]

In 2001, sculptor Claes Oldenburg characterized the 9-11 attack as a great work of art.

Unfortunately, it never crashed through the roof of his house.