Howzat!
I live in Barnsley, a place where most of the graffiti is usually the same old crap you see elsewhere and nothing out of the ordinary or amusing. That was until mid summer 2009 when the local council made a huge mistake and unveiled a statue of one of the local residents Dickie Bird.

I have met Dickie on a number of occasions and can truly say he is a miserable sod and from the look of it a number of local residents seem to think that too. Come to think of it, I think whoever built the thing might have felt the same way as they decided to put the statue on a small plinth and easily within reach of any normal person.

The sight of this bloke dressed in his umpires uniform and raising his finger with a grin on his face seems to have inspired the locals to get creative with it and despite the fact that the central police station is a stone’s throw away I have seen him with a variety of clothes on (Mainly women’s), carrying a pizza box and more bizarrely someone had impaled a kids doll to the end of his finger making it look like Dickie was having the time of his life fiddling with a minor (Kid I mean and not one of the locals from down the pit).

I’m just waiting for the day that someone paints his face joker style as that would look truly creepy.
(mon bison powered by magnets, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 10:35, 2 replies)

Leave
my Dickie alone!
( stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 10:51, closed)

Dickie Bird statue?
Did they manage to find enough material to make his head?
(Mackeson_drinker, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:40, closed)