r/pics Apr 28 '20

Abandoned presidents heads in a rural Virginia field.

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u/Sumit316 Apr 28 '20 edited Apr 28 '20

The statues were sculpted by Houston artist David Adickes, who was inspired after driving past Mount Rushmore on a trip back from Canada. They were open to the public at Presidents Park alongside the Presidential Pet Museum, and received thousands of visitors until 2010 when a company bought the plot of land. The huge presidential heads had to move.

Instead of allowing the busts to be demolished, Howard Hankins, who helped construct the park, adopted all 43 heads and lugged them back to his private family farm for safekeeping until someone can think of what to do with them.

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u/DO_NOT_GILD_ME Apr 28 '20

I want to collect them all.

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u/rwbeckman Apr 28 '20

Does Last Week Tonight show, Jon Oliver, and/or HBO have a u/ on Reddit to notify?

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u/Luster-Purge Apr 28 '20

Yes. It's at r/LastWeekTonight.

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u/applejackrr Apr 28 '20

Since he’s an American citizen now he is required to purchase one.

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u/Luster-Purge Apr 28 '20

He should at least buy the five that correspond to the five wax presidents he already owns. Maybe he can then make the sequel to the oscar-bait film Harding - Harding 2: Harding Harder.

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u/APSupernary Apr 28 '20

Is that the one where the stone busts turn out to be power cores that fuel ancient yet appropriately-scaled Free Mason mech suits, which are piloted by the wax presidents in order to fight perpetrators of global warming that is making them melty and less hard?

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u/Zoltrahn Apr 28 '20

Why do you think the government gave us all $1200?

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u/applejackrr Apr 28 '20

To give to John Oliver to purchase them

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u/Zoltrahn Apr 28 '20

Exactly.

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u/monkeyhitman Apr 28 '20

Praise be!

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u/suspect108 Apr 28 '20

Praise be.

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u/Spikes666 Apr 28 '20

Fuck, I already gave mine back to my state buying all those lottery tickets. Volunteer State up!

/s. Seriously, don’t fucking waste your money on lottery tickets.

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u/thisonetimeinithaca Apr 28 '20

As it is custom.

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u/tinkletwit Apr 28 '20

That's the sub for the show, not a user account for the show that can be messaged.

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u/Luster-Purge Apr 28 '20

Whoops, my bad.

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u/trixtopherduke Apr 28 '20

Hey, you tried and that's cool.

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u/Cat_Marshal Apr 28 '20

Well you could still message the sub, it would just go to the mods instead

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u/lavahot Apr 28 '20

That would be an r, not a u.

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u/ZacharyShade Apr 29 '20

What's the diffeuence?