A laugh as it's Christmas or a dangerous stunt?

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Mystery as Santa hats appear on college chapel statues

"A photographer says he believes a “rascal student” is responsible for attaching festive hats to carved figures high on a college chapel."

"Martin Bond said he first saw the Santa hats on St John’s College, Cambridge, at about 11:00 GMT on Monday.

“Some people believe they were placed by a drone, but they definitely climbed up there,” he said.

“I was told by a porter no key had been signed out, so they weren’t placed inside, it was done from the outside.”"

Rather someone else than me even if it’s a Christmas stunt, it looks a long way up there!
Acceptable behaviour or not, what do you reckon?

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Well…If I passed it and saw it, I would stop and take a photo…so I have to say its fun. Yes its naughty of them, but its harmless and nobody got hurt so… :+1:

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Fun, definitely :santa:

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There’s a statue of Edmund Burke in Bristol with a tradition of tying a yo yo to his finger. Always makes me giggle, never gets tired…

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Oh I like that! It looks so real - what else could he be doing? :joy:

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Love it!
Here’s the famous Bar Gate during Lockdown

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It is just a bit of fun and hurting no one. If we can’t make someone smile at Christmas or come to that any day of the year it is a poor world we are living in. Excentric yes that is what makes us different from other countries and long may it stay so

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It’s good to crack a smile now … almost forgotten what it feels like.

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Wow! That is a long way up. I love it that they do things like that.
Students kidnapped the Camel on the M5 once & held it to ransom for charity. They got £10 I think. :grinning:

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Yeah, grim times and a lot of us feel like that

But nice to try to keep a spirit of being “playful”and having some fun. So easy to lose that in all our troubles and get a bit sour and boring

So, “playful” is the theme for this week!

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Yes, it has become like that over the months, having a smile at times does rather make things more bearable.

More information for the never-ending learning curve, I had never heard of ‘the Camel on the M5’
– it’s only been there for 40 years!

Grim times indeed and I feel sure there will be many feeling that way. However, as you comment “playful” being the theme for the week could lighten the mood. I will have to see if I can find more stunts in the news, like that one in Cambridge, to aid that theme.
:grinning:

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He used to have a child too. They do go sometimes, but I think thy are there now.

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On checking this out online, as I do, there were many stories about the Camel. The first link below was about the return of the Camel, the second did include 'son of Camel, but this one was in someone’s back garden. This does seem to be linked to the one on the M5 though. Both news items did make me smile. It seems as though there are many local well known ‘landmarks’ like these, I am thinking of the ‘concrete cows in Milton Keynes’ and ‘The Angel of the North’ alongside the A1 in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear.

https://www.cmk.net/mkcows/history_of_the_real_concrete_cows.shtml

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There’s a Wicker Running Man on the M5 too, in a field just before the Lego warehouse. (Morrisons) :grinning: He is rapidly disintegrating though as no one wanted to fund his repairs.

Here on our main road, we have an Orange Elephant near Exeter & a Star Wars At-At on the A38…

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It all happens in the area where you live by what you write, interesting though. For me it was another search for information which revealed the following:

Although it seems the Orange Elephant is no longer as it has vanished, this article is dated 25 January, 2019 so it may have returned by now:

Yes, it seems the Orange Elephant returned, as further searching revealed:

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Different elephant, the new one is a proper elephant, not a slide. The people bought the slide from the cafe on Haldon Hill when the cafe closed & put it in their field, then later updated it to a proper one. The slide is I think next to the icecream parlour.

The At-At was sporting a large mask during lock downs. :grinning:

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All elephants look the same to me! No, just jesting and as you are more local than myself, I live 250 miles from there, you will have far better knowledge of this. More searching could reveal the stories about all Orange elephants / slides in the area but … I think I will give that a miss. :grinning:

The youngsters were obviously having a good time on the Orange elephant slide in the video, lots of happy, smiling faces. :grinning:

Perhaps an entry for “playful”, the theme of this week, as mentioned by Maree?
:thinking: :grinning:

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