1/26/2003: Fake guard

Undertoad · 01-26-2003, 09:46 PM

I'm late today so I won't feel bad about having nothing much to say about this. This was a fake prison guard in Brazil, where apparently they don't have enough guards to watch prisoners. I don't have any notes on it but I think he was the only guard watching a good number of prisoners, from a tower.

wolf · 01-26-2003, 10:03 PM

He's probably just as attentive as the real thing. And you don't have to pay him benefits.

elSicomoro · 01-26-2003, 10:18 PM

Don't be so sure...they're probably unionized.

Elspode · 01-26-2003, 11:18 PM

If he wasn't deceased, they could commission Duane Hanson to do some much better quality guards. His works look real...scary real, as in, if you saw one move you'd piss yourself, but unless you know they're sculptures, you'd wonder why they aren't moving. We have a couple of them in our two major art museums here in KC, and both of them are guards...

Elspode · 01-26-2003, 11:24 PM

And the other one...(took me awhile to find a picture of it).

xoxoxoBruce · 01-27-2003, 07:48 AM

I wonder how many of the 170,000 Homeland Security employees we're paying fit this profile.

Elspode · 01-27-2003, 08:00 AM

Having done a bit more "research", I am chagrined to report that the first picture that I sent here is *not* of a museum guard, but rather a car salesman. The display location in the Kemper Museum of Art makes it look as though the subject is scrutinizing people as they come in the main entrance, and having been around the older, uniformed guard sculpture in the Nelson-Atkins Museum for years, I think I just sort of drew the incorrect conclusion.

This is why no one asks me my opinion of art...I'm a moron.

Akhasha · 01-29-2003, 12:31 AM

Meanwhile, the crops around there are being decimated with no scarecrows to protect them

Uryoces · 01-29-2003, 12:53 PM

I'd be more afraid of the used car salesman statue!

Thadius · 01-29-2003, 02:48 PM

Well if I was a prisoner I would be convinced ... he just looks so ......... ?

01-26-2003, 09:46 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	1/26/2003: Fake guard I'm late today so I won't feel bad about having nothing much to say about this. This was a fake prison guard in Brazil, where apparently they don't have enough guards to watch prisoners. I don't have any notes on it but I think he was the only guard watching a good number of prisoners, from a tower.

01-26-2003, 10:03 PM	#2
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	He's probably just as attentive as the real thing. And you don't have to pay him benefits. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

01-26-2003, 11:18 PM	#4
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	If he wasn't deceased, they could commission Duane Hanson to do some much better quality guards. His works look real...scary real, as in, if you saw one move you'd piss yourself, but unless you know they're sculptures, you'd wonder why they aren't moving. We have a couple of them in our two major art museums here in KC, and both of them are guards... Attached Images __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

01-26-2003, 11:24 PM	#5
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	And the other one...(took me awhile to find a picture of it). Attached Images __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

01-27-2003, 08:00 AM	#7
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Having done a bit more "research", I am chagrined to report that the first picture that I sent here is not of a museum guard, but rather a car salesman. The display location in the Kemper Museum of Art makes it look as though the subject is scrutinizing people as they come in the main entrance, and having been around the older, uniformed guard sculpture in the Nelson-Atkins Museum for years, I think I just sort of drew the incorrect conclusion. This is why no one asks me my opinion of art...I'm a moron. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

01-26-2003, 10:18 PM	#3
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	Don't be so sure...they're probably unionized.

01-27-2003, 07:48 AM	#6
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	I wonder how many of the 170,000 Homeland Security employees we're paying fit this profile.

01-29-2003, 12:31 AM	#8
Akhasha Resident-in-Training Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 7	Meanwhile, the crops around there are being decimated with no scarecrows to protect them

01-29-2003, 12:53 PM	#9
Uryoces 2nd Covenant, yo Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Pugetropolis Posts: 583	I'd be more afraid of the used car salesman statue!

01-29-2003, 02:48 PM	#10
Thadius Civil Civilian Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Birmingham England Posts: 34	Well if I was a prisoner I would be convinced ... he just looks so ......... ? __________________ 'It takes 2 people to tell a lie,' 'One to lie, and one to listen'. Homer Simpson

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