Here in Seattle, we had pigs. Big metal pigs scattered all over the city and each designed differently. One looked like a city bus, another wore a Mariners uniform. My favorite was the one that was meant to be vandalized. It had a small compartment from which you could get a piece of chalk and draw whatever you wanted on the pig’s green hide. Very cool.
Good thing PETA never got wind of it, I guess. 
I’m not sure the folks on Capitol Hill would appreciate the competition…
pinching lips together with fingers
(voice inside head: don’t go for the easy, lame joke, Cranks. Everyone else is already thinking it)
Little Dinosaurs here in Wilmington.
The Greens are just acting like pricks to get some press. Standard tactics, sad to say.
Did you see the ding dong on that elephant?
He was hung like a mule!
Sharks in San Jose (like our hockey team - get it?)
My favorite was in the lobby of the building across the street. It was painted and accessorized to look like the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine, complete with little windows through which John, Paul George and Ringo looked out, just like the film. Many of the shark statutes were vandalized, but they were restored and all of them now grace the interior of our local hockey arena, which is known locally as the “Shark Tank.”
Los Angeles had Angels.
Some of which were very bizarre.
I liked the cows, though.
Tourism departments throughout the nation, time to share your brain cell again. Listen up, first we had aquariums. Next, cutsie statues. Let’s see a show of hands for public executions?
I like the elephant in front of Fresh Fields in Dupont. It is painted like a watermelon and called the “watermellophant”.
Coral Gables (Miami) has Flamigos.
When I heard they were doing elephants and donkeys in D.C., I just knew there’d be problems, especially people getting upset or vandalizing animals for the party they disagree with. People are so idiotic sometimes.
We should have done weasels instead. I think that would have been hysterical. This town could use a little self-deprecating humor.
Avalonian- I saw those pigs last summer. What’s the connection between Seattle and pigs??
When I used to live on E. 12th St., we had crack whores.
wikkidpis wins.
We need Cows. Everyone loves cows.
There’s a rather famous statue of a pig in Pike Place Market. Actually, it’s a “piggy bank,” with a slot in the back and everything. Money collected goes to some charity or other.
Here in Cincinnati we had pigs because we once were considered the pig capital of the United States. I know, I know, but it’s better than being called the serial murderer capital of the world, which might be more accurate.
Pretty much what Cervaise said. You can get a bit more info at the Pigs on Parade website. Basically, the pigs were all modelled after Rachel, the piggybank at Pike Place Market. The Market Foundation sponsored the effort with the pigs, basing it on other similar things in other cities.
There are Monopoly man scupltures in downtown Brooklyn’s Metrotech Center. I’m not sure if they are supposed to be the guy from the Monopoly game, however Metrotech center is the Brooklyn home of many financial companies.
I especially like the one of an alligator dragging a Monopoly man baby down a manhole. Of course this was the one people complained about.
I think that Toronto had Moose a couple of years ago. IIRC, one was sporting a tye dye colour scheme.
I think that Toronto had Moose a couple of years ago. My favourite one was sporting a tye dye colour scheme.
