Oh my heavens. Look at this park! *blech*

[GreenPartyVoter]

HUAYRE, Peru (AP) - When Peruvian officials set out to spread the wealth, they probably didn't mean mayors should build extravagant town halls and heated swimming pools.

And they almost certainly didn't expect this wind-swept hamlet high on the Andean plateau to spend its windfall on an erotic sculpture park.

The sexually explicit creations in this isolated village 100 miles northeast of the capital have become the focus of a furor over public spending that is dominating Sunday's nationwide local elections and posing a political headache for President Alan Garcia just four months after he was elected in a stunning comeback.

The original idea was to increase revenue-sharing from surging prices for gold, copper, zinc and other minerals, and indeed, municipalities in the mountains and jungles have seen their income from taxes on mining rise more than 1,000 percent in recent years, to nearly $1 billion this year.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20061119/D8LFSPU03.html

[Haole Girl]

1. Am I the only one who thinks they look more like sea creatures?

:shrug:

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Either way, just not my taste in design.

[Drum]

2. That's erotic???

feh.

Concrete doesn't usually do it for me...I find the grassy parks with trees and streams/ponds much more naturally sensual. Only in the most elemental way can I see that (pictured) giant mushroom growing out of that fissure to be "phallic."

:shrug:

edit: spellling

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Exactly!