Phallic graffiti hits the heights
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Phallic graffiti hits the heights
https://www.tes.com/magazine/archive/phallic-graffiti-hits-heights
Teachers thought they had seen every penis prank. Phalluses have always been scrawled on textbooks and chairs, and special points were awarded for arranging a penis on the blackboard behind an unknowing teacher’s legs.
But the graffiti was on a relatively small, and private, scale. Thanks to Google Earth and Google Street View, dubious artwork can reach a wider audience.
A penis discovered on top of a house should send out warning bells to schools. Teenager Rory McInnes, who painted a giant phallus on the roof of his parents’ Pounds 1 million West Berkshire mansion, was apparently inspired by a programme about Google Earth.
But schools have already been hit. In 2006, The Sun reported that “pranksters drew a willy on the roof of a top school” in Teesside that went unnoticed until it appeared on Google Earth.
And a pair of unnamed Year 11 pupils from Bellemoor School in Southampton etched a giant penis on a school lawn using weedkiller in 2005. Satellite images cropped up on the internet two years later.
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