by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
The small town of Grantsville, Utah, (population 13,000 plus) is located on Interstate 80 thirty-six miles west of Salt Lake City. The town, generally white and conservative, appears to be a microcosm of the rest of the state. Grantsville is not particularly well known outside of Utah, but that has begun changing over the past few days.
Sometime last week a city resident put up a Halloween display that proved to be quite controversial. The clever work of art featured a Halloween skeleton pole-dancing on a city street sign - "really working the pole" as one press account put it - while other skeletons sat in nearby folding chairs tossing money at the dancer. City officials were less than amused, and on Wednesday the city posted a notice on Facebook giving the perpetrator (artist) had until 9:30 that evening to remove the display from the city property.
The artist showed up and collected his work before the deadline. He took it to a private residence where he set up an even more elaborate display in the front yard. The new scene included a lighted pole and the outline of a lighted stage, a bigger crowd of skeletons enjoying the bump-and-grind performance, and even a tip jar. Many in the town of Grantsville are righteously outraged at what they feel is a tribute to rampant immorality, but others are having fun with it. Some have brought decorations of their own to enhance the show, and many are leaving tips in the jar.
One woman told a reporter at the display that she was going to tip the dancer because she knew what it was like to work for tips.
There is no word yet on what the artist has planned for Christmas.
1 comment:
As for Christmas, I hope it's something like the double nativity scenes in "The Life of Brian". Or maybe a scene where the Magi clarify to Yeshua and Mary that the gifts were for both his birthday and Christmas.
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