For some reason a planned skate park in Rangiora, Canterbury, New Zealand is causing a bit of a stir because of it’s penis-shaped design. Go figure.
Here’s what it’s going to look like, see if you can spot the dick and balls…
Rangiora skate park design too phallic for some https://t.co/pTjOJUCeSs pic.twitter.com/D9m1C4QkAy
— The Press Newsroom (@PressNewsroom) March 15, 2016
You spotted them, didn’t you?
Well, apparently so did a whole lot of people in Rangoria.
Reports Stuff…
“To roll with the pun, it’s [been] a bit of a cock-up,” said local skater Mark Pijnenburg, who designed the original skate park nearly 20 years ago.
“It’s an environment where young people congregate. It could become a mockery of the process if everyone’s referring to the park… as that one down the road with the penis shaped bowl.”
Some locals had already taken to calling it “the dick bowl,” he said.
A sign at the park showing the new design has been defaced to highlight the shape.
Several public submissions on the final design questioned the bowl’s phallic appearance.
One asked for the design to be changed because it “looks like a giant doodle”. Another asked if the Waimakariri District Council realised it looked like a penis.
In response to both comments, the council said: “This observation will not be evident once constructed.”
The dick bowl. Awesome. I’d skate there for sure.
The skate park’s designer Dave North also pointed out that once the park is complete no one will even know that it looks like a giant dong.
“It’s not the first penis-shaped bowl… it’s symmetrical and functional, and you can’t tell it looks like a penis unless you’re looking at it from space.”
He’s right about that so I really don’t know what all the fuss is about. For instance, check out this skate park in Bridgend, Wales as seen from, well, space.
It didn’t cause any problems. Oh wait, yes, yes it did. A lot of problems. Never mind then!
H/T Mirror; Skateboarder image by Shutterstock