Bush: dog feces edition

I just found this. I can't independently verify any of it, but it's funny whether it's true or not.

Police in Germany are hunting pranksters who have been sticking
miniature flag portraits of US President George W. Bush into piles of
dog poo in public parks. Josef Oettl, parks administrator for Bayreuth,
said: "This has been going on for about a year now, and there must be
2,000 to 3,000 piles of excrement that have been claimed during that
time."

The series of incidents was originally thought to be some sort of
protest against the US-led invasion ofIraq. And then when it continued
it was thought to be a protest against President George W. Bush's
campaign for re-election. But it is still going on and the police say
they are completely baffled as to who is to blame. "We have sent out
extra patrols to try to catch whoever is doing this in the act," said
police spokesman Reiner Kuechler. "But frankly, we don't know what we
would do if we caught them red handed." Legal experts say there is no
law against using feces as a flag stand and the federal legal experts
say there is no law against using feces as a flag stand and the federal
constitution is vague on the issue.

Wonderful. As long as you promise not to send money or pipe bombs, you can have flags mailed to your home by following the instructions here. Better yet, you can make your own flags using a PDF available from the same page and then send in pictures to add to the site's photo gallery. The artist that designed the project says the purpose is simply to provoke thought and emotion. I guess it's very postmodernly avant garde or whatever. I dunno.

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