Rocky Statue To Provide Jobs For Vandals

The big debate about the Rocky statue’s placement is over, but the letters to the editor are still rolling in. And, well, things may be more complicated with the statue right next to the Art Museum:

Now that the Rocky statue is permanently in its place, the thought occurs to me that it should have some kind of protection around it, like they do for the Liberty Bell, just in case someone in the middle of the night tries to knock a piece of Rocky off, just for the fun of it.

There it is now, out in the open, for anyone to take a potshot at it. Don’t laugh. It could happen, God forbid. I had a dream like this.

Pity the man whose dreams consist of vandals destroying the Rocky statue. Implementing this protection idea could be part of the “jobs [and] economic development” John Street promised the statue would bring.

Protecting Rocky [DN, 4th letter]
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