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August 17, 2010
Does Western Civilization Have a Death Wish?
In 2003, Florian Jenett and Valentin Beinroth placed about 50 handgun replicas in downtown Frankfurt. The guns were made from tinted ice, making them look real at first sight. In 2009 they did a new edition of their Freeze! project but made the guns eatable by using coke, licorice, cherry and food coloring. -- Freeze! Revisited - today and tomorrow
Posted by Vanderleun at August 17, 2010 8:54 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
Um... yes.
Posted by: Western Chauvinist at August 17, 2010 8:58 AM
Given that these youngsters have had a socially corrupted upbringing and a helium filled ego, I'd say, Go for it, chill down a real one and give them a hedonistic thrill.
Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck at August 17, 2010 11:03 AM
Lolli-POPs! "The San Francisco Treat"
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Posted by: Robert at August 17, 2010 11:17 AM
Maybe they need to suck on something else, less hazardous to their health?
Posted by: Cilla Mitchell, Galveston Texas at August 17, 2010 12:35 PM
Well, the state our society is in, I thought they were sucking on the real thing. Shame on me.
Posted by: Cilla Mitchell, Galveston Texas at August 17, 2010 12:41 PM
I'm not against candy and pastries in amusing shapes. But there's a better way to eat a gun-shaped sweet, and it's not barrel-first.
Why are none of these people nibbling off the top of the sweet, or holding the barrel and nibbling off the handle? Very bizarre.
Posted by: Maureen at August 17, 2010 12:44 PM
My kid has been trained in firearms to the extent that he would never do something so idiotic, even with a non lethal facsimile.
Too bad other parents are not as rabid about safe behavior.
Posted by: Cheezburgrrr at August 17, 2010 2:00 PM
The artist should have mixed in a real gun along with the fakes. Performance art, you know.
Posted by: rickl at August 17, 2010 10:31 PM
A firecracker set off at the optimum time would have been entertaining.
Posted by: Jay at August 17, 2010 11:10 PM
"I reserve the right to put a gun-shaped object in my mouth and pull the trigger. Any harm to me shall be proof that the whole rest of the universe is at fault and should be sued into oblivion."
Posted by: Scott M at August 20, 2010 2:25 PM