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Lorne Thurston and Joseph McIntyre were planning to get an up-close look at the Wayne Gretzky statue in downtown Edmonton on Friday, when they realized it had been smeared with what appeared to be – and strongly smelled like – feces.
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“Disappointing,” he said. “It shouldn’t have been done.”
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The pair were part of a group of friends who stopped to watch as an employee walked out of Rogers Place and wiped Gretzky’s face with a towel doused in cleaning product.
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“Why would someone want to do that?” said Taylor, standing with the group of friends at the statue.
“[The statue] might not mean much to some people, but it means something to other people.”
That’s the point.
The coverage of Gretzky’s fall should be a lesson on manipulation by the media.
Latest articles on the Gretzky controversy mention his lack of team colours, giving the US team a thumbs up, Bobby Orr’s letter and Trumps tweet - it paints a picture of patriotic hockey fans over-reacting to otherwise benign coincidences. Gretzky was supporting fellow players, not wearing the colours was bullshit but not shit-in-face worthy, Trump is an idiot. Easy to doubt his connections based on that information.
Some articles mention his wife was at a Trump’s Inauguration. His wife. They were both at the inauguration and they both attended a party at mar-o-lago. They’ve been publicly supportive of Trump and yet most articles portray upset Canadians as taciturn fans, not mentioning the real link between Gretzky and Trump.
The Great One worships rapists.
The Great Once, I think you mean.
Damn!
“Just because he supports a rapist racist felon doesn’t mean he’s a bad guy!”
“I thought people had more class.”
Wayne hasn’t had “class” for a while, but especially not in the past few months.
I wasn’t really aware of much of his personal views until just now, but yeah, I can see why people would smear shit on his statue. Supporting Trump and his ilk is deserving enough. But attending his victory party and joking about becoming the governor of Canada is ridiculous. It just sounds like he wants to be the dumb-Quisling to Trump’s dumb-Hitler.
This shows dedication. Not only was someone willing to harvest raw shit, but they clambered up the statue to smear it on the face.
He should have stuck with hockey.
Oh noes! Oh well. Over it. Statues of fascist aligned figures should always be smeared with shit AFAIK.
Gretzky hasn’t been Canadian since he went to LA. He’s also a moron surrounded by other morons. Should have stuck to hockey.
Good, so the outside matches the inside now.
Too bad it wasn’t the man himself.
Yet.
Walter would have been so disappointed it what had become of his son.
Yeah, he does love shit though
Everyone hates Taylor.
