# Innovative way to Get Rid of Ugly Potholes

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**Created:** [May 1, 2015, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innovative-way-to-get-rid-of-ugly-potholes/718987 "2015-05-01T13:08:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innovative-way-to-get-rid-of-ugly-potholes/718987/1 "2015-05-01T13:08:13Z")

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> **Clever Street Artist Draws Anatomically Correct Body Part to Get Rid of Potholes**
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> How, you ask, can an artist get city officials to fill one of the potentially damaging craters? By drawing a gigantic penis around it, of course.
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> After several of his cyclist friends around his suburban Manchester neighborhood got into pothole-induced crashes, the aptly named “Wanksy” began spray-painting penises on the streets.
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> “I wanted to attract attention to the pothole and make it memorable. Nothing seemed to do this better than a giant comedy phallus,” Wanksy told the Manchester Evening News.
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> Wanksy found that although officials in his Ramsbottom neighborhood tend to ignore polite requests to fill concrete gashes in the streets, they’ve been quick to fix the holes in order to get rid of his drawings. Some potholes that sat unfilled for nearly a year are being fixed in a jiffy, according to the artist.
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> “Been there 8 months at least. A bit of art and they are filled in 48 hours,” the artist wrote about one photo of his work that he posted to the Wanksy Street Artist Facebook page.

[http://news.yahoo.com/clever-street-artist-draws-anatomically-correct-body-part-003828779.html](http://news.yahoo.com/clever-street-artist-draws-anatomically-correct-body-part-003828779.html)

One must hope that this doesn’t inspire the Brits to pave over the Cerne Abbes Giant

> **[Cerne Abbas Giant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerne_Abbas_Giant)**
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> The Cerne Abbas Giant is a hill figure near the village of Cerne Abbas, in Dorset, England. It is currently owned by the National Trust, and listed as a scheduled monument of England. Measuring 55 metres (180 ft) in length, the hill figure depicts a bald, nude male with a prominent erection, holding his left hand out to the side and wielding a large club in his right hand. Like many other hill figures, the Cerne Giant is formed by shallow trenches cut into the turf and backfilled with chalk r...

There’s a picture on the cited page, although it’s been 'censored" by the asphalt patch on the pothole.

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**Author:** ![Lorene89095](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@Lorene89095](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorene89095)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innovative-way-to-get-rid-of-ugly-potholes/718987/2 "2015-05-01T14:14:53Z")

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Huh – one lady made them “pretty potholes” by filling them with potting soil and planting flowers.