Friday, December 17, 2004

The Melbourne City Council thinks you're pretty stupid

Are you gonna take that from the Melbourne City Council?

Plants sow seeds of hate (gotta love the headline)

A FLORAL foul-up has left a city street lined with swastika shapes in a week of major Jewish celebrations.

Gardeners hired by Melbourne City Council intended to arrange the purple and white pot plants into neat geometric shapes.

But they left six 3m garden beds along Swanston St displaying large Nazi symbols.

...

"The arrangements, even if done inadvertently, are in appalling taste," Lord Mayor John So said. "I have asked that they be changed immediately."

Vandals were initially believed to have rearranged the plants as a racist slur. But closer investigation showed gardeners had inadvertently used the pattern.
Inadvertently, huh? Look. One is inadvertent. Maybe six that look vaguely like swastikas if you kind of look at them sideways could be inadvertent. Six that look like this are not inadvertent. I mean you'd think around number four or five, one of these guys would have said "Hmm. You know what? This looks exactly fucking like a motherfucking swastika."

INSIDE THE MIND OF UPDATE: Each and every one of these gardners:

"Whoa, man. Those are swastikas. Ah fuck it, I need a beer."

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