Bet coastguards will love this

codprawn · 01 July 2005, 18:23

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4640513.stm

Barking or what??? Statues of people on a beach which will be covered by the tide every day!!!

Wonder how many rescue will take place? Wonder if anyone new to the are will go in and try to save them - drowning in the attempt??? Or else people will see someone in the water and think - oh look more statues!!!

Ever heard the one about the boy who cried "wolf"???

hannah · 01 July 2005, 19:09

lol , also a hazard , nice peice of rock cut your prop in to peices!!!

peteb · 01 July 2005, 19:30

Is that near where the cockle pickers drowned? If so not very funny at all

codprawn · 01 July 2005, 19:32

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Originally Posted by peteb

Is that near where the cockle pickers drowned? If so not very funny at all

Hadn't thought of that - and didn't realise there are 100 of them!!! SICK!!!!

stedj · 01 July 2005, 20:21

its right on my door step i often land on crosby beach will make a good death gauge

allso somthin to tie up to

stedj · 01 July 2005, 20:22

no were near the cocle pickers but still up north some were

Simon B · 02 July 2005, 10:59

What are they made out of? Dont look too big to me plus near Merseyside so no doubt will be weighed in sometime soon.

stedj · 02 July 2005, 12:11

there made of iron , abugger to get on to the boat and play havic with my trim, there life size casts but the water must be cold !!!! any way £50 each

codprawn · 02 July 2005, 12:43

Gippos will love them!!!

MikeH · 12 July 2005, 06:41

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Originally Posted by codprawn

Wonder how many rescue will take place? Wonder if anyone new to the are will go in and try to save them - drowning in the attempt??? Or else people will see someone in the water and think - oh look more statues!!!

On the nail with this. North West news last night

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/m...de/4672563.stm

I'm all in favour of interactive art, but when the art is so interactive it threatens to kill people I'm not too sure. Maybe the artist is trying for a Darwinian effect - cleaning the gene pool. Anyway thats 5 teenagers rescued in 10 days so its only a matter of time!!

Simon B · 12 July 2005, 07:20

I'm all for art I even did it at A level (teacher didnt "help" me though) but this borders on the bloody ridiculous, pardon my french, what are they thinking of. Still makes a good place to attach a lifebelt to.

codprawn · 12 July 2005, 11:30

No doubt there will be many more - what the hell were they thinking????

Good old Labour - just LOVE this government!!!

Nos4r2 · 12 July 2005, 14:02

That really is the most stupid thing I've seen since the guy who moored to Studland Rock warning buoy at high tide and went to sleep...

Nos4r2 · 12 July 2005, 14:04

I wonder if it's criminal damage to spray them dayglo yellow....

Simon B · 12 July 2005, 14:18

No doubt the tax payer will be picking up the tab for about 100 chart corrections or am I being a pedant?

Not to mention the instalation of a new Cardinal buoy, Oh for a few hundred feet of shaped charge, naturally all Ribnet members would be invited to this;

"piece of contemporary performance art comunicating the angst and inner tension of a middle aged man wracked with the inability to percieve the full breadth of a benign Orwellian state"

Barman! Prozac please and have one yourself!

wavelength · 12 July 2005, 14:26

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Bet coastguards will love this

you betcha - last saturday night was at the height of the silly season. Whilst I was out around Blackpool and Fleetwood for persons in danger of being cut off by the tide/an attempted suicide/and a boat with a seized gearbox etc etc Crosby (liverpool) team was tasked to 3 kids stuck firmly in the mud after they had gone out at low water to look at the statues!

MikeH · 12 July 2005, 14:59

Notice to Mariners. Watch out for the yellow poles

codprawn · 12 July 2005, 15:03

Nice to see tax payers money being used so wisely - maybe Bod Geldorf was targetting the wrong people???

MikeH · 12 July 2005, 15:23

Must have too little to do.

So here goes;

100 statues 50 m apart. They must be sat on concrete or something. say 4 hours each to fit - need to be straight etc. say 4 people for each statue and a total of £ 150/hr with all their kit. double that because of cock ups and waiting for the tide thats £1200 to fit each one. plus materials so say £1.3 million to install

bargain I'd say

Oh plus 10 new navigation marks with lights.