Bull loses party hat. It's not because of all the flack the locals created.

[vaskidmark]

http://www.newser.com/story/204702/restaurant-castrates-controversial-bull-statue.html

There's a picture there of the bull with it's party hat if you are wondering what it looked like.

An oversized bull penis at the center of a dispute in the small Utah town of Hurricane has been cut off—but restaurant owner Stephen Ward says it was because he decided he didn't like the look of it on the statue, not because he cares what his neighbors think. The owner of Barista's Restaurant tells the Spectrum that he told the city: "I am not removing the penis for you or because of your complaints. I don't like you. I'm doing it for me. I just decided it would look better without the weenie. And oh my God! It's beautiful." He tells the St. George News that he decided the conical penis—which sparked weeks of complaints from local residents—was "stupid because it looks like a party hat."

Locals complained loudly and widely about just about everything about him, his bull, and his restaurant.  His response?  "Any advertising is good advertising." (paraphrasing)

stay safe.

[Perd Hapley]

Oh the noes! People don't like having fake animal genitalia waved in their faces! Oh, teh theocruzzy!

 

[Firethorn]

I liked this - " latest in a series of disputes between Ward and local residents, who accuse him of charging too much for food and having poor business practices,"

How's he stay in business then?

[vaskidmark]

I liked this - " latest in a series of disputes between Ward and local residents, who accuse him of charging too much for food and having poor business practices,"

How's he stay in business then?

http://drgrumpyinthehouse.blogspot.com/2015/03/sold.html

And besides, it's convenient.

stay safe.

[Perd Hapley]

I have a few friends who are regulars at the Stake & Sheikh on Old St. Charles Road. They insist on going there, and taking church groups there; despite the service being consistently slow, even at off hours.

[charby]

Our bull still has his parts intact. Audubon, IA if you are ever in that town. Quite popular to get your picture while you are hanging from the testes.

[Jamisjockey]

Oh the noes! People don't like having fake animal genitalia waved in their faces! Oh, teh theocruzzy!

 

Utah would be a theocracy if the one true church could get away with it.

[Scout26]

"...the food is lousy and the portions are too small...."

[Marnoot]

Utah would be a theocracy if the one true church could get away with it.

Indeed. Our lust for power knows no bounds.

Burn the Gentiles! 10% of all citizen income to the Church! Mandatory fasting! Armed missionaries!

State where >50% of citizens are LDS. By extension, >50% of state legislators are LDS. Said legislators legislate as one would predict LDS legislators to legislate. News at 11.

If the LDS church releasing statements of position on moral issues = theocracy, then yes, we are a theocracy. Yes, many legislators that are active members of said religion will take said statements into consideration. Plenty that don't, and vote contrary, if you look at voting records.

If legislators were facing church discipline for voting "wrong", maybe you'd have a point about attempted theocracy, but they don't. I'm not claiming the LDS church doesn't influence Utah politics, but it desiring a theocracy is a bit far-fetched.

[Marnoot]

re: the OP article. Can't say I'd have given it a second thought, but busybodies in small towns gotta busybody. Cranky restaurateurs gotta crank. Besides, this is the most exciting thing to happen in "herrkin" since a mildly interesting car wreck in 2006:

[Calumus]

Now you have to post a picture of that accident from the other angle...

[Marnoot]

Truck was traveling in the opposite direction it's facing. Hit the guardrail, flipped 180 and landed where you see it (http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/culvert.asp):

[Jamisjockey]

There's a few sketchy spots like that around the western states. 

the one that made a real impact on me was climbing kane creek trail in Moab.  You can see the rusted hulks of several rigs at the bottom of the canyon as you're climbing up a one way track.

[TechMan]

Back to the OP:

Sounds like what we had here in Cincy, only with a busty female mannequin.

The owner made a lot of money off the controversy.

Unfortunately, the city’s busybodies have complained about Barbie’s body. Yes, they’re offended by a mannequin in a bikini. Tessel was forced to appear before Reading’s Design Review Board to get a permit for Barbie. The board ruled that the well-endowed mannequin could stay, but that she’d also have to stay “covered up.”

from: http://www.ihatethemedia.com/restaurant-bottom-line-improves-due-to-bikini-mannequin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVYcoyIR2uw

[vaskidmark]

Truck was traveling in the opposite direction it's facing. Hit the guardrail, flipped 180 and landed where you see it (http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/culvert.asp):

Is that a house and barn I see at the bottom of that cliff?

stay safe.

[Marnoot]

I'm guessing it's trash that's floated down and out that flood culvert.

[Marnoot]

the one that made a real impact on me was climbing kane creek trail in Moab.  You can see the rusted hulks of several rigs at the bottom of the canyon as you're climbing up a one way track.

Probably not the same spot, as we weren't off-roading, but I remember seeing a sight like that when I was down in the Moab area with my family as a teenager. Roads that are narrow and looong sheer drop-off on one side skeev me out. Going on a family backpacking trip in the Uintas in the 90's, our van vapor locked when one side of the van looked darn-near flush with the cliff to my teenage eyes.

Naturally I was on that side of the van, so I got to sit there contemplating mortality for a good while while we waited for the van to start again. Probably not much actual danger since the van wasn't going anywhere, but aforementioned skeev-factor was high.

[Regolith]

Probably not the same spot, as we weren't off-roading, but I remember seeing a sight like that when I was down in the Moab area with my family as a teenager. Roads that are narrow and looong sheer drop-off on one side skeev me out. Going on a family backpacking trip in the Uintas in the 90's, our van vapor locked when one side of the van looked darn-near flush with the cliff to my teenage eyes.

Naturally I was on that side of the van, so I got to sit there contemplating mortality for a good while while we waited for the van to start again. Probably not much actual danger since the van wasn't going anywhere, but aforementioned skeev-factor was high.

What is really fun is when you get to the really tiny switchbacks...in an F250 longbed. Or meet another vehicle coming down the other direction, where there's absolutely no room to pull over. "Who gets to back up" is not a very fun game...

[vaskidmark]

What is really fun is when you get to the really tiny switchbacks...in an F250 longbed. Or meet another vehicle coming down the other direction, where there's absolutely no room to pull over. "Who gets to back up" is not a very fun game...

Ride in a bus at night through the mountains of Spain, France or Italy.  See those headlights in the distance?  First one to cut off their headlights has the right of way going around curves.  Mostly, sometimes.  Do you sit in the first row of seats, where you can see this being played out, so you will be killed beore the bus goes over the side, or do you sit in the back where you will wonder, all the way down the mountainside, just what the heck happened?

stay safe.