Teen Paints Giant Phallus on Parents' Roof

KeriF — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:32:00 GMT

Okay, quick: What's painted on your roof? Don't cheat and look, but sit there and think, is there anything up there? A cute dolphin? A bullseye? A "welcome aliens" sign?

What? There's nothing painted on your roof? Are you sure?

One London couple was unpleasantly surprised when the local paper contacted them to ask if they knew there was a giant phallus painted their roof.

Andy McInnes, owner of the house, replied, "It's an April Fool's joke, right? There's no way there's a 60-foot phallus on top of my house!"

But then he remembered he had three kids.

Turns out 18-year-old Rory, who was spending a year traveling, had painted the Cerne Abbas Giant, a well-known fertility symbol, on his parents' roof one year earlier.

"Oh, you've found it then!" he replied to his father.

The teen wanted to make his parents' house stand out amongst all the boring satellite images on Google Earth, so he painted the figure. It was then spotted, a year later, by a helicopter.

Clare McInnes, Rory's mother, was nonplussed. "When Rory gets home he will be given a scrubbing brush and white spirit and he can go and scrub it off," she said.

"We don't want any more children, so the idea of sleeping under a giant fertility symbol is rather worrying."

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Three-Year-old Takes Joy Ride Atop Grandma’s Lexus

Hannah Tennant-Moore — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:00:00 GMT

Whatever your worst nightmare is when you leave your kids with Grandma, it can’t be worse than this.

A 54-year-old grandmother in the Florida Keys was arrested and jailed after she was spotted driving her Lexus around a parking lot with her three-year-old granddaughter on top of it.

According to deputies, Brenda Bouschet (pictured) said “she was just giving the child some air and letting her have fun.” She also said she had one hand out the window, holding the child’s leg, and that she was driving at “snail-speed.” Bouschet seemed genuinely surprised to learn of laws requiring children to be in car seats, and, uh, not on the roof of a moving vehicle.

Although Bouschet has been released from jail, she faces child felony abuse charges. Her claims that she would never “let anything” hurt her granddaughter seem genuine, but her behavior was frighteningly reckless. What do you think? Should Grandma be let off the hook?

Photo: CBS4

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Teen Paints Giant Phallus on Parents' Roof

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