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At the Bunker Hill Monument, graffiti never dies - it just comes out in the rain
By adamg on Sun, 01/18/2015 - 11:23am
Andy shows us what he saw this morning on one side of the Bunker Hill Monument.
UPDATE: As you'll see in the comments, the graffiti has actually been there since the 1970s, when anti-British sentiment ran high in Boston. And as I heard from somebody who Knows These Things, the National Park Service did its best to remove the graffiti, but there are limits to what it can do with risking damage to a national monument AND the graffiti seems to become especially prominent in the cold and/or rain.
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I'm terrible at these.
Does that say something or is it just scribbles?
It looks like "Brits Out"
Which makes the "artist" not only a vandal, but a seriously out-of-date vandal!
I'm thinking its "balls out"
I'm thinking its "balls out" which would be a reference to potential MLS strike.
Also (in)appropriate reference?
After all, you would expect that at the base of a giant erection, right?
Brits Out, a feat
Brits Out, a feat accomplished in Charlestown some 239 years ago.
Not New
https://twitter.com/garrettquinn/status/390935557783572480
It was old and faded back in 2008:
http://jbwarehouse.blogspot.com/2008_07_01_archive.html
Wow, that's really weird! Do
Wow, that's really weird! Do you know the story behind it or why it appears randomly?
Old Graffiti! Calm down.
The graffiti is old. It just shows up more clearly whenever it is humid and the granite gets wet. It read on three faces "Brits out of Ireland" and had the Irish tricolor...A relic of the troubles in Ireland and Charlestown's strong Irish American roots. There is also an old tag around step 250 reading "Danny" from long ago as well. Very obvious on wet days.
Maybe it's a plea to make the Monument look
more anatomically correct.
For what it's worth
I thought it said "Pulls Out" and was, somehow, insulting the masculinity and virility of the Bunker Hill Monument.
Alternate explanation: has some very ignorant
ideas about family planning methods.
Still relevant today
It is my opinion that "Brits Out" in still a legitimate point of view relative to Ulster today.