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COWS ON PAREDE IN LA JOLLA A colorful herd of life-size fiberglass cows mysteriously appeared on the streets of La Jolla, as plucked there by gremlins. The bovines were decorated by local artists as a part of a Cow Parede art exhibit. Among the 36 beasts, there's a light blue cow with clouds, a cow masquerading as a tiger, a graffiti cow and many more. These darlings are going to grace us (sorry the pun) with their visit until June 15, lucky us... Now wouldn't you know it, the whole town is in uproar, one has been stolen, Oh nooooooo, considering that these beauties are huge and bolted to steel platforms, it would take a lot of effort to commit this crime, but my question is, who the heck wants this thing??? Anyhow, this is a fund raiser event and they will be actioned off supposedly for good deeds, however at this time when our citizens are going without, people are living on the streets (yes, even in La Jolla) I think that we should put some more effort into our present problems, and spend our resources in a better way, considering that the city of San Diego is in a deficit of 80 mill, and have deleted teachers, fire fighters and police from their jobs....Beside I think the damn things are really ugly...   "Truth, wisdom, love seek reasons; malice only seeks causes"Johann Caspar Lavater |
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Karin ~~ In 2005 at Christmastime cows painted as characters from the Wizard Of Oz could be found outside UW Hospital in Madison, WI. I remember seeing more scattered about the city and the outlying area(s) in the summer of 2006. They were auctioned off but I do not recall who/what was the beneficiary. Come to think of it, I believe one was painted wearing a Milwaukee Brewers' shirt and cap. Maybe EarthyTaurus can help me out here with my memory. ET...do you remember seeing the cows? (I know some were also in Sun Prairie). Thanks for bringing back some fun memories, Karin.   The positive is there. Sometimes it's just hard to find.
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I have seen cows hanging around in the field, cows loose on a country road but have never seen a painted cow.  I guess I miss all the good stuff.....WHY would anyone want a painted life size cow and where would they put it!!??? I guess if it was there someone was bound to steal it.
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If memory serves me right I think we had cows like that in dublin years ago, and one of them went missing too. I swear I didn't take it even though I rather like cows 
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5/8/2009 11:24 am |
hi Karin, I enjoy going out and viewing art shows from time to time but sometimes they go to extremes. I hope this wasn`t funded with your tax dollars. I hear if you go out late at night you can push them over as cows sleep standing up!!  have a nice day 
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) you can't push either over...
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