Artist Paul McCarthy produced an inflatable sculpture of a tree for the people of Paris to admire, but there was one small problem...
While those of you out there with particularly dirty minds may have already noticed, the sculpture could be interpreted as a tree, sure, but it also looks remarkably like a butt plug. That was an open invitation for the people of Paris and tourists alike to start posing in hilarious fashion and snapping a few pictures of it in a some imaginative positions. You can imagine the angle of the photo that this lad was trying to capture.
However, as Buzzfeed noted, this isn't the first time that McCarthy has had a little bit of sex toy-based controversy surrounding his work, after his Santa Claus statue in 2001, which was erected in Rotterdam, was also a bit...interesting.
Anyway, the sculpture ended up attracting a lot of attention from the media as well as the people of Paris, and given that it was so noticeable, it's not hard to see why.
However, it wasn't all good attention, and at some stage during the night over the weekend, vandals decided to target the piece and severed the wires that were holding it up, so the decision was taken to deflate it and fold it up to be removed on Saturday.
French Culture Minister Fleur Pellerin didn't see the funny side of any of it however, and rightfully took aim at the vandalism inflicted on the work calling it "a serious attack on the principle of artistic freedom."
Via The Huffington Post and BuzzFeed
