A parking officer has expressed profound relief following the rooftop debut of Ronnie van Hout’s contemporary sculpture, Quasi in View Street. They noted that the almost 5 metre monument has shown exemplary restraint by not flipping them off.
"We are accustomed to receiving obscene gestures from disgruntled drivers, but usually not from a nearly five-metre-tall resin nightmare," explained senior parking officer Gary Vance. "When it first towered over View Street, we braced for a massive, permanent middle finger."
The local community, however, has expressed bitter disappointment with the sculpture’s civility. A Change.org petition with over 14,000 signatures has already been submitted, demanding Ronnie van Hout manually reconstruct the resin digits to give the parking officers "the giant, permanent sky-obscenity they so rightfully deserve."
At press time, officers were seen debating whether to issue the sculpture a loitering ticket, though they admitted they were terrified of what the pointer finger might do if provoked.
