Visitors banned from rubbing statue's member

[Sovz]

Paris - Authorities in Paris's historic Pere Lachaise cemetery have sealed off one of its most visited tombs in order to prevent the perpetration of lewd acts on the prostrate bronze form of a murdered 19th century journalist.

The funerary relic of Victor Noir, shot dead in 1870 at the age of 22, has long been held as an aid to love or fertility by women, whose attentions have rubbed a protuberance in the statue's genital area to a smooth shine.

But alarmed by the growing frequency of the caresses - which they say are also increasingly intimate and no longer confined to women - officials have erected metal barriers around the grave and a sign reading: "Any damage caused by graffiti or indecent rubbing will be prosecuted."

Noir - whose real name was Yvan Salman - was killed by Pierre Bonaparte, a great-nephew of the Emperor Napoleon, after bearing him a challenge to a duel. Attended by 100 000 people, his funeral turned into a mass demonstration against the government of Napoleon III, who fell from power a few months later.

The statue by Amedee-Jule Dalou shows Noir in a frock coat and trousers lying flat on his back, with a distinct enlargement in the groin. According to the story, he was due to get married the day after he was killed - which accounts both for the lump and the cult.

The deputy mayor of Paris in charge of parks and gardens Yves Contassot said on Tuesday that he had not been informed of the barriers, and that he would visit the tomb later this week.

Those crazy french and their kinky practices, no wonder the quebecois are so screwed up


EDIT

Here's the picture

 

[calculon000]

Those crazy french and their kinky practices, no wonder the quebecois are so screwed up

LOL!!

Just don't either the quebecois OR French hear that, as the quebecois would take offense at the comment and the French would take offence at being grouped them with the quebecois.

 

[Tannhauser]

...officials have erected metal barriers.

A very careful choice of words there.

 

[Biggie]

LOL. u can get banned rubbing a statue ? :/

 

[calculon000]

So, the Germans aren't the only ones with really strange fetishes after all.....

 

[Lukus]

Wasn't that proven beyond all reasonable doubt with the discovery of the sneeze fetishists?

 

[DJ Slamák]

So, the Germans aren't the only ones with really strange fetishes after all.....

Sounds like you've never heard of Japan.

 

[Member of Khans]

So, the Germans aren't the only ones with really strange fetishes after all.....

Huh?
....
don't know of anything

 

[Dapper Dan Man]

In the words of the Good Show:

"Dude, is that your mom in a German scheizer video???!!" -South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut

 

[Wooz]

Scheissvideo*

 

[Member of Khans]

Else you say Scheißvideo or Scheißervideo... or it does not realy make sense

 

[calculon000]

Sounds like you've never heard of Japan.

Damn, I forgot about Japan. Ok, so Japan is WAY wierder than the germans.

 

[Tannhauser]

I think it has something to do with being on the losing side of WWII.

The Germans resist their urge to conquer France by inventing strange fetishes? Likewise for the Japanese and their urge to conquer the mainland.

 

[Member of Khans]

No! The fetishes are invented in the US - we just live them out 8)

 

[Dove]

LOL. u can get banned rubbing a statue ? :/

LOL. u can get banned for 1337speak too.

*sigh* Can't believe nobody got to this guy first.

 

[Ugly John]

Those crazy french and their kinky practices, no wonder the quebecois are so screwed up

I resent being grouped with the french



edit: didn't see calculoon's post about that

 

[Ashmo]

Last I checked that was a Japanese/Russian fetish. I think German mainstream "indie" movies (aka pr0n without storyline) restrict theirselves to urine and bukkake.

Not every English speaker with a Russian accent is German, some of them are Polish.

I wonder what it is with Americans and their obsession with Germans eating shit. Some WW2 trauma maybe?

 

[Wooz]

Not every English speaker with a Russian accent is German, some of them are Polish.

Indeed, although you can easily distinguish Polish porn actors/actresses: The guys have huge penii, and the actresses are the apotheosis of teh secksay.

 

[Member of Khans]

Indeed, although you can easily distinguish Polish porn actors/actresses: The guys have huge penii, and the actresses are the apotheosis of teh secksay.

Indeed... well... i have a Polish guy in my swimming class and once see him under the shower accidently... a quite embarrassing situation

Not every English speaker with a Russian accent is German, some of them are Polish.

Yes...and you will not believe it: Some of them are Russian

 

[Ashmo]

Indeed, although you can easily distinguish Polish porn actors/actresses: The guys have huge penii, and the actresses are the apotheosis of teh secksay.

Indeed... well... i have a Polish guy in my swimming class and once see him under the shower accidently... a quite embarrassing situation

Accidentally, eh?

Not every English speaker with a Russian accent is German, some of them are Polish.

Yes...and you will not believe it: Some of them are Russian

Russian? No. Most of them are American, which explains why they also have an accent when talking in German (that kinda freaked me out when I saw the original versions of some American WW2 movies -- Swinehoond!).