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Some time last evening, the statue of George Washington at the never-finished Cathedral of Saint John the Divine was beheaded in a blatant act of vandalism. A tipster reports that the head was replaced with a $1 bill–of course featuring the face our first President himself.
Alex Weinberg, who took the photo at left, was interviewed by Fox 5 regarding the incident. He has this unrelated anecdote:
“Once the cameras stopped rolling, the creepy camera guy began telling me about an extremely hot Barnard girl who had just been there. He said things like, “Oh, she was the complete package, let me tell you. Freshman and everything.” He whistled and seemed to be getting a little worked up. I left.”
Anyway…Where is the head? Who is the thief? Could it be revenge? Bwog wonders what Hammurabi would do if he were to capture the decapitator.
Thanks to Jacob Taber for the initial tip.
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@Good tthing no one touched his bush?
@maybe a smartass? by george! how terrible!
@Smartass Better stick to your day job, kid.
@Liberal jihadist Fox 5 covered this? Have they linked it to the larger trends of lawlessness and America-hating at Columbia yet?
@Alex Weinberg In the aforementioned interview, most of the questions they asked me were regarding Columbia’s potential involvement in the vandalism.
@Can I just say that There are far too many people who post on this site that take themselves way too seriously. GET OVER YOURSELVES! This was a post about George Washington’s statue being guillotined. Comment about that, not Jews killing Jews in France or whether the Gothamist is hipster or not, K. thanks
@there has been no reference yet to the simpsons. i’m disappointed
@D'OH! feel better?
@Alex Weinberg When the Fox 5 guy interviewed me, it was one of the first things I said. He said he remembered the episode but he was clearly BSing.
@And I was just pointing out that Gothamist is stupid. Pardon if my academic interests slipped in there.
@ling Hitler killed a panda. Move on.
@sigh that poor, maginificent creature never had a chance…
@fact Alex Weinberg is the president of Alex Weinberg
@amazing could it be there are people who read bwog and not gothamist and who may have not seen this otherwise?
@i do Gothamist DID post it.
@Yeah But who wants to sift through all the Gothamist music crap that reminds the reader that Gothamist writers are way more hip(ster) than you’ll ever be.
@ahh I stand corrected. They did mention it, but who the hell reads Gothamist any more?
@um... do you actually read Gothamist? the site often mocks hipsters.
@And Jews often attacked other Jews before France went over to Vichy and started handing them off to the Krauts. That didn’t make them any less Jewish…
Twat.
@wow didn’t take anything to get the WWII references going in this thread…next let’s just start the comments with something relating to hitler so we can just move on rather than building to it.
@yeah um. didn’t gothamist post this yesterday?
@Nope Gothamist hasn’t made a peep about this.
@hmm perhaps someone radically against the intermingling of church and state? or someone concerned that plastering washington on an episcopal cathedral might be an affront to his deism?
@Another Smartass Obviously not a good week to be a president named George.
@Smartass Too bad for the cameraman that the thief is the only one who got any head.
@Alex Weinberg Yay!
(We’re all still waiting from the hot Barnard girl.)
@Alex Weinberg I also took that photo!
(P.S. Barnard hot chick — please identify yourself)
@Bwog noted