A wealthy Swedish businessman was surprised to learn on Wednesday that the grounds near his luxurious home appear to feature a giant penis visible only from the sky.
“It may be distasteful, but it’s not illegal,” Nicholas Rundbom, a spokesperson for Hitta.se, the Swedish directory and map website which published the phallus-filled aerial photograph, told The Local.
The picture came to Rundom’s attention when he was contacted by a reporter with business news website Realtid.se who was writing a story about a posh villa belonging to Swedish business icon Per-Olof Söderberg.
Söderberg, founder of the Söderberg & Partners insurance brokerage and board member of the Ratos private equity firm founded by his grandfather in 1933, had put his home up for sale, prompting the news website to take a closer look at the property using Hitta.se
Much to the surprise of the journalist, the grounds near Söderberg’s home featured a symbol in the shape of a massive penis, as well as a star, mowed in the grass.
Söderberg, whose home is adjacent to the tennis-court-sized penis, was also clueless about the sex-themed shape in the grass surrounding his compound.
“I didn’t know anything about it,” Söderberg told the Expressen newspaper in reference to the newly-discovered phallus.
Following the report, technicians with Hitta.se contacted Metria, the company that supplied the images, to verify that the image, which was taken on April 18th of this year, had not been doctored.
“All six experts said it was clearly real grass and they all used the word ‘boyish prank’,” Metria spokesperson Johanna Ahlmark told Realtid.se.
“Someone was clearly having fun when mowing the lawn.”
Rundom from Hitta.se marveled at the coincidence that has resulted in the penis-prank being given a long-lasting afterlife on the internet.
“It’s highly improbable that those who came up with this creative stunt and cut the grass in that way did so just before a satellite flew overhead and snapped a picture,” he told The Local.
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join the global warming party, mr wood
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2011/12/01/poll-republicans-coming-around-on-global-warming
Juicey, ClimateGate 2.0 is quickly unraveling the last thread of hope that the Team of Global Warming Conspirators had of bilking world taxpayers of trillions of dollars to continue funding their bunk research and implement their socialist dreams.
Look at Durban, where all the schemers are currently meeting. There has been no progress, and even the US, who typically makes big promises it knows it can’t keep, isn’t even making big promises. Canada is completely pulling out of Kyoto. Most changes to Kyoto are now being discussed in terms of 2020, and not 2011.
We’ve seen NO STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT GLOBAL WARMING over the past 13 years. YET CO2 levels have increased significantly. Explain that for me Juice. Please explain why CO2 levels continue to rise, yet temperature hasn’t.
Hey Juice, did you know that Antartic ice formed with CO2 levels much higher than today’s? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/02/antarctic_ice_sheet_carbon_levels/
The temperature record clearly shows the Earth has warmed slightly over the 20th Century. Unfortunately we are unable to accurately compare this rise to rises in the past because the records have been so distorted, manipulated, data lost, data tweaked, and data not being shared as would be typical with good science. The Team of Global Warming Conspirators have systematically had people fired, denied skeptic research, collaborated with the press and governments to push their ideology, at all cost. In the end, we have no way to know for sure why temperature is rising, because their SINGULAR focus has been on CO2 and pushing the Green Energy/Socialist Revolution. Imagine if for a second they would have had an open mind and considered that the rising temperature may be caused by something else? Imagine if they would have been focusing on cloud feedback (which is still a wide-open area for research)?
All this leads me to the money quote of the survey: “Nonetheless, substantially fewer Americans say there is solid evidence of global warming than did so from 2006 to 2008. And in those years, higher percentages viewed global warming as a very serious problem than do so today.”
Congrats Juice. Despite co-opting entire governments, the entire US press corps, and most of our scientific organizations, a relatively small Team of scientists have been exposed as frauds, and the American citizens have finally realized that the joke has been on them. It will be a long, long time before Americans EVER trust any “science” on climate.
Keep in mind, thanks to Climate Gate 2.0, we have emails where these “scientists” predicted that by 2010, the Great Barrier Reef would be gone, NY and Philly would be under water, and hurricanes would increase significantly. Yet they were dead wrong. Imagine the anger of the people had we wasted trillions of dollars preparing for events that were only predicted because their models were designed to capture only one outcome- and that outcome was to show catastrophic warming, at any and all cost.
We know that cost now, and the bill is being paid. Or rather, we want our money back.
climate gate, schlimate gate … really, do you really care? corruption exists on all sides of this issue and most other issues
don’t know much about the CO2 levels except that a significant rise to the tune
I’ve read that CO2 content is reported to be as low as 0.0385% up to 0.046% or 385+460 parts per million …. that is a long way to deadly but as it stands, humans who are more susceptible than others regarding CO2, can experience frequent migraines, nausea, dizziness …. CO2 also contributes to climate change, which is the issue rather than climatic warming
The % atmospheric of CO2 says nothing about the CO2 which has accumulated and continues to accumulate in the soil and in the oceans and other bodies of water, and which is freed, slowly, as a result of various processes and also enters the atmosphere this way.
It also says nothing about how the CO2 damages all seas and other bodies of water in that it acidifies them.
atmospheric CO2 is poisonous for humans when it reaches a content of approximately one percent which will then already lead generally to headaches and chronic tiredness.
It has an absolutely deadly effect when it reaches a content of 8 percent in the air.
Around 150 years ago the CO2 content in the atmosphere is estimated to be 0.028%, and shortly before industrialization, around 187 ppm. Therefore the content has therefore climbed by a disturbing 273 ppm.
Earths atmosphere has always contained CO2 in small amounts, but Earth humans have unfortunately contributed very much to the strong increase of the gas content thru burning of fossil fuels such as crude oil, nat gas and coal, as well as as a result of diverse other natural and chemically produced substances.
Planes, cars, tractors, other motor vehicles and all kinds of work machines as well as ships, which are powered by combustion engines, also contribute in a big way to the CO2 in the air.
Logging, clearing by fire – of the rain forests, as well as other clearing of forests around the world and the destruction and building-over of riverside forests and fertile fields for residential buildings and factories, contributed and further contributes to the increasing CO2 content.
The ease with which you dismiss 8 billion humans effect on the environment is admirable.
Juice, without a doubt, you are truly clueless on this issue.
give it up… he does not even read your posts.
it has not warmed over the last decade, like you said, with more co2 than before, but if he read that, it would lead to cognitive dissonance, which is not comfortable, so he just ignores these facts.
Correlation does not imply causation.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc is one of the worst ways to make an argument. it’s the way animals think.
they do not teach the most basic and most dangerous fallacies in school. no, they indoctrinate people into being unable to detect them, so they can be exploited easily.
juice, pete, this mad_scientist guy and any other leftist here can not even make one coherent argument, because they do not know what an argument is.
they have learned that a dialogue consists of emotional assertions. rational conclusions are forbidden because they lead to experience, i.e. “stereotypes”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc
look it up, juice. that’s how you “argue”
I guess I should post links and regurgitate the other side of the issue as you do for your side… and we will go on forever, you on your side, me on the other … you insist your right, I insist I’m right .
We may as well argue about god vs no god.
The facts/truth remains, whether you or I don’t see them or admit to them.
No Juice, you should just keep posting your Billy Meier fantasy diaries. They are entertaining, at least.
“Moderate Republicans are more likely to believe global warming is real, according to a new poll.”
you know what they call a “moderate Republican”? A filthy Liberal 😉
apart from that: Libs have been making policy on skewed polls for decades now.
seriously, it’s all in the question.
“would you like to pay 10$ a gallon for gas, fund green scam enterprises like Solyndra with this money and stop having children because they are bad for the planet?”
let’s see how many poll for human climate intervention now
Global warming occurs on the planet of Mars and everywhere else on the universe. The solar cycle of the sun regularly changes in intensity and around 2012 the cycle will reach a climactic peak. From that point on it will decline, hence the shift from “global warming” to “ice age” theory. There was a petition by like 2000 or 3000+ scientists and experts saying what a fraud “man made” global warming was, but if you really research it you see that science is very political and studies are often highly manipulated to acheive a certain ‘outcome’.