Burlington Free Press: If you find yourself doing a double-take while driving down Route 128 between Westford and Fairfax — yes, that is a seven-foot-tall sculpture of a raised middle finger, carved from a 700-pound block of pine and perched atop a 16-foot pole on the property of Ted Pelkey.
Oh, and it’s lit up at night.
Pelkey erected the provocative sculpture on Friday in protest of a long-running dispute with the town of Westford. The town’s Development Review Board denied Pelkey a permit for an 8,000-square-foot garage he wants to build on his 11-acre property.
He spent $4,000 on the middle finger sculpture, carved in Vermont by an artisan he declined to name.
“We’ve been trying to put a business there for the past 10 years,” Pelkey said. “It’s just never-ending. They’re railroading us really good.”
Pelkey’s business is currently located in Swanton, where he says he’s running out of space. His main business is cleaning spools for a monofilament line company. Pelkey and his son also do some truck repair on the side.
“It’s a low impact thing,” Pelkey said of his business. “We have such little traffic you’d wonder if we were open.” MORE HERE
h/t PHenry
Not sure how I stumbled upon this story. I was looking for info on principal candy cane and it just appeared Weird.
Needs a string around it..Then it would be Fickle.
Wasn’t it the movie Sometimes a Great Notion where Paul Newman tied Henry Fonda’s severed arm onto a raft of logs with the severed limb flipping every one off?
Town councils can be big time tyrants. No doubt the finger is well deserved.
I feel his pain for real.My neighbor and I
have been fighting the city of La Marque TX.
for 2 1/2″ years now.The guy across the street
from us is a violent drug felon and he has been
running an illegal auto repair garage for over
2 years.The city marshal is involved with this guy.
There are 16 cars in what used to be a grass yard.Now
a mud yard.6 cars on the street.He has been evicted
twice from La Marque for running an illegal garage…
the perspective of the picture makes it look YUGE! he should put that on post cards and sell em. or he could offer it to the getty seeing as they’re gonna have to give up that nekid sculpture they bought for 4 mil.
“Getty museum must return 2,000-year-old statue, Italian court rules”
http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2018/12/04/lysippos-statue-is-italys-says-court_45a40444-cc71-4b0b-85f0-7aa96f194080.html
The bird is so Obama era. He should put up a giant “OK” hand to really trigger them.
@Brad
Lee Remick was HOT in that movie.
That’s funny @BadBrad. That was the first thing I thought of too. Didn’t they rename that movie ‘never gives an inch’? A Ken Kesey story, also the author of one flew over the cuckoos nest.
I think Washington DC implemented the idea first.
Sometimes a Great Notion photo gallery – photo 7 – first photo second row
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067774/mediaindex .
I recall watching that movie several times during sub patrol, for some reason I recall the title being – Never Give an Inch. Good movie, shame I’ve never seen it shown on any of the classic movie channels.
Blink
Nice link. Makes you realize how piss poor our entertainers are today. Newman and Fonda had great screen presence.
Turdtwin… The bird has been around much longer than Obama… You are an idiot! So it Trump!