How did we miss this adventure in humiliation?
Evidently there’s a sculpture in southern Germany that required the use of 22 firefighters to help rescue an American exchange student caught—yes, the sculpture is of a vagina.
From The Guardian:
On Friday afternoon, a young American in Tübingen had to be rescued by 22 firefighters after getting trapped inside a giant sculpture of a vagina. The Chacán-Pi (Making Love) artwork by the Peruvian artist Fernando de la Jara has been outside Tübingen University’s institute for microbiology and virology since 2001 and had previously mainly attracted juvenile sniggers rather than adventurous explorers.
According to De la Jara, the 32-ton sculpture made out of red Veronese marble is meant to signify “the gateway to the world”.
Police confirmed that the firefighters turned midwives delivered the student “by hand and without the application of tools”.
The mayor of Tübingen told the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper that he struggled to imagine how the accident could have happened, “even when considering the most extreme adolescent fantasies. To reward such a masterly achievement with the use of 22 firefighters almost pains my soul.”
This article appears in Jun 19-25, 2014.
Mari, did you write they headline too?
FYI: America is a Continent not a country. The U.S. is a country within the Continent of America. Just saying.
Logical Think: Headline was my fault.
North America and South America are continents. There is no continent named America.
From my travels, I’ve found that you can refer to yourself as an American (being from the USA) and pretty much rely on your identity not being misunderstood. A Canadian refers to themselves as a Canadian, and a Mexican as Mexican (one reason they refer to their own countries as ID is so they don’t get mistaken for being from the USA, which sometimes has unpleasant baggage they shouldn’t have to handle). Generically, we can all refer to ourselves as North American. The name of our country is the US of America, and it’s that “of” that allows us to call ourselves Americans.
I would argue that the use of ‘American’ in the title and story is appropriate. It’s common usage and doesn’t seem confusing or overbearing to me.
Listen young man, you have your whole life to be trapped by a vagina…
Look…this idiot was a foreign exchange student from Asia who happen to be going to school in the United States of America.
Guess it sounds more fun if you get to say he is from the USA.