Teenager paints 60ft phallus on roof of family home

[Don Plumley]

From the Telegraph:

A teenager got away with painting a 60ft phallus on the roof of his parents' home for a year before his parents found out.

Andy and Clare McInnes did not discover their son's rude artwork until a helicopter spotted it on top of their home near Hungerford, Berks.



Rory McInnes, 18, climbed on to the flat roof of his parents' home and daubed the symbol using a tin of white paint, after watching a programme about Google Earth.

Web surfers can view detailed images from satellites using the Google software, enabling them to zoom in on their homes to see them from above.

But parents Andy and Clare did not discover their son's rude artwork until a helicopter spotted it on top of their home near Hungerford, Berks.

The pilot called The Sun newspaper, which then contacted Mr McInnes to tell him.

Mr McInnes, 54, a company director, thought the newspaper was having a joke.

He said: "It's an April Fool's joke, right? There's no way there's a 60ft phallus on top of my house."

However, when he asked each of his four children if there was indeed the image of a phallus on their newly-completed roof, Rory owned up.

When Mr McInnes phoned his son, who is currently in Brazil on a gap year, the teenager said: "Oh, you've found it then!"

The boy's father appeared to take the prank in good humour.

But he said: "When Rory gets home he will be given a scrubbing brush and white spirit and he can go and scrub it off."

This is roll around on the floor funny to me!

[Moses]

Originally Posted by Don Plumley

This is roll around on the floor funny to me!

Hysterical!

[cl8ton]

LOL that was great, but come on he had another 15 feet to go

[slakjaw]

HAHAHA

I really needed the laugh!

[HardDrive]

Nicely done young man!

[Jared at Pelican Parts]

Sounds like something i'd do. Well played, sir..

[slodave]

[911Rob]

Funny, thanks for posting. LOL

[gprsh924]

The best part is that they are going to leave it up there until the kid gets back from Brazil.

[onewhippedpuppy]

That's just awesome.

[rammstein]

We climbed the town water tower back in my very young days. We had a big can of black paint, and a few cans of white paint. The tower had been covered with graffiti for years, so much so that it was just a mass of if any you couldn't read anything. SO- we used the white paint to completely clean it up. Next came the black paint, which was used to write the word POOP as large as we could reach (so the letters were probably 10 feet tall).

You could read it from all the way across town. It wasn't a curse word or anything, so I didn't feel bad about little kids seeing it. It made the news, the radio... it was great.

Some teenaged pranks are ok, and that phallus is one of them. Nobody got hurt, and everyone gets a laugh. I give the kid an A.

[sand_man]

WOW, that is EPIC!!!! I can't stop laughing!!! I think security is coming to escort me out of the building!

[kstar]

Excellent!

[cantdrv55]

Spoiled kid. Funny though.

[Dueller]

The absolute best part is he was able to keep quiet about it for a year until it was discovered.

[Moses]

Originally Posted by Dueller

The absolute best part is he was able to keep quiet about it for a year until it was discovered.

Yep. That makes it a classic.

[Gogar]

51 degrees 22'44.11" N
1 degree 27'21.06" W

It's "Pre-phallus", though.



I think it's funny, but he still deserves a thump. Someone will do it someday.

[ikarcuaso]

Ah, the ol' "dick-on-a-roof" trick.

Uh...when was the last time you guys checked your roof?

[Rikao4]

Former Cmdr. of mine was NOT amused when he saw the bulls-eye I painted on our bunker..
duh..the Bunker was located on TOP of a former fuel depot..
No-one used it.

Rika

[Rick V]

But it is all wrong, it doesn't curve
Is this mothering gone to far?