Phil Lynott vandalised

Ph3n0m

http://users.d-n-a.net/dnetPzkQ/gifs/statue1.jpg


Looks like someone removed the right hand and the guitar

But it could also be removed for repair - anyone got any insight?

petes

Bastards.

chillywilly

w*nkers

Ruu_Old

If it was vandals then gobshites.

r3nu4l

Didn't this happen a good while back? So far as I remember the guitar needed repairs of some sort. Hazy recollection and no source but I don't think it was stolen/vandalised.

Karl Hungus

I certainly hope it wasn't vandalised. Some fecking gobsheens alright.

chamlis

If it was vandals, it's a ****ing disgrace.

MrJoeSoap

r3nu4l wrote:

Didn't this happen a good while back? So far as I remember the guitar needed repairs of some sort. Hazy recollection and no source but I don't think it was stolen/vandalised.

Yeah and I'm fairly sure there was a thread on it too...

Dyr

It was a roadie...

gucci

yeah i think the strings on the original guitar were not tough enough to handle people just touching and pulling at them, dont think was necessirally vandallism, just over enthusiasm and they were putting thicker better fixed strings on to it

Motley Crue

Ruu wrote:

If it was vandals then gobshites.

Happened a while back actually. I remember reading this article too which is interesting in itself
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=61188

Mental Mickey

Think it was removed for repairs, because it got damaged from people standing on it for photographs,etc......

I think it should've been put indoors to stop this kind of crap happening to it.....?

astrofool

Or put in a steel cage so no one can touch it ever again....

It's a statue, and it's on the street so that people can get their picture taken with it, if it needed repairs, or if vandals made it come apart like above, then it wasn't designed properly, unlike, say molly malone, or the other many statues in Dublin.

ferdi

Mental Mickey wrote:

Think it was removed for repairs, because it got damaged from people standing on it for photographs,etc......

I think it should've been put indoors to stop this kind of crap happening to it.....?

no way, its a statue of a local icon, it has to be outside, it should be built strong enough to be able to handle whatever the public has to throw at it surely?

BossArky

It is actually a bass, not a guitar.

Don1

The original strings were actual bass strings so they could be broken by fools easily enough particularly after being in the weather for a while.

bluto63

technically a bass is a guitar...

N_Raid

If this is a picture from ages ago then yeah it was taken for repairs. Apparently all the machine heads were gone from people taking "souvenirs"

Dave!

BossArky wrote:

It is actually a bass, not a guitar.

A bass guitar?

The Real B-man

its stupid where its positioned it should be protected a bit more incorporated into a park somewhere with fencing around it

Alter-Ego

DaveMcG wrote:

A bass guitar?

A P-Bass to be exact:cool:

Don1

The could hire a large group of burly men to be minders? Or, put up statues of these big burly men to simulate minders? But then they couldn't offer any protection. No, go with the real life minders. Just imagine them battering tourists and/or skangers who get to close! It'd be great.

Capt'n Midnight

I can't remember if it's an urban myth but,
didn't the ladies near the ha'penny bridge have their handbags nicked ?

Motley Crue

BossArky wrote:

It is actually a bass, not a guitar.

Correct

wow sierra

Statue is in the perfect location!! Art should be accessible to the public - not hidden away where you have to make a effort to go to see it. Its just like Philo just hanging around town on an afternoon or a Saturday night.

Don't think its an urban myth - think those bags were actually taken!!!

NeMiSiS

I remeber hearing on the radio it was in for a repair of some sort, no real malicious intent was involved.

TK

FunkyChicken

whos phill lynott

Kingsize

guitar - sorry bass was kinda ropey lookin last time I looked (2 weeks ago).
Strings kinda coming away from the body prolly from people sticking in plectrums etc.

Mind you he has to put up with a lot of this....

http://myspace-137.vo.llnwd.net/01324/73/14/1324754137_m.jpg

& this
http://myspace-072.vo.llnwd.net/01266/27/08/1266878072_m.jpg

poor man

crosstownk

Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak
Somewhere in this town
See me and the boys we don't like it
So were getting up and going down

Seth Brundle

FunkyChicken wrote:

whos phill lynott

Thats a terrible thing to even think of asking!
Shame!

pbsuxok1znja4r

Meh @ Phil Lynott. That ****'s old hat.

joejoem

Ph3n0m wrote:

http://users.d-n-a.net/dnetPzkQ/gifs/statue1.jpg


Looks like someone removed the right hand and the guitar

But it could also be removed for repair - anyone got any insight?

oh my god....


Phil Lynott was black? :eek:

Dyr

joejoem wrote:

oh my god....


Phil Lynott was black? :eek:

no but apparently luke kelly was :eek: