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San Francisco's Super Bowl 50 Statues Are Being Utterly Annihilated
It looks like it’s going to take a small army to protect these things from vandals.
As predicted, things continue to not go well for San Francisco’s big, some would argue ugly, Super Bowl 50 statues.
It was just a few days ago that this site chronicled the vandalism of several of the new artworks—solar panels torn off, paint splashed on, letters rearranged into the cryptic “SUPERB OWL." That turned out to be just the opening salvo in an all-out war, with more statues tipped over or altered to read “SUP BRO,” “UP R BOWEL,” and “LEE ROBS,” the last being a likely reference to Mayor Ed Lee and the huge cost of the event. A particularly hard-hit one was also just removed, presumably for repair or to prevent other widely publicized attacks.