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General Mar 25, 2026 at 9:27 PM

Graffiti conviction for woman who stuck googly eyes on Blue Blob

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwydx34kzlvo
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Ditka85 Mar 25, 2026 +849
"Vanderhorst had been under the influence of MDMA and **three litres of vodka** she had consumed on the night of the offence..." 3 liters of Vodka!? I'm an alcoholic (sober since '96) with a very high tolerance level and my daily consumption was 1 liter a day. When I checked into rehab my bac was .48; I can't imagine 3.
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h_virus Mar 25, 2026 +282
Lmao 🤣 I would be dead after the first liter. I think there’s no way she had 3 liters, she’d be dead or in the ER fighting for her life.
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gartho009 Mar 26, 2026 +54
I bet they confused pints with liters. Those sidecars will get you fucked up, three will send you to space, but it's at least physiologically believable that someone had three.
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snowmuchgood Mar 26, 2026 +8
I was thinking it’d be premixed, even 3 pints is enough to knock out your above average man.
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sniggity_snax Mar 26, 2026 +42
Yeah I have had drinking problems in the past and theres no way she had 3 liters... Especially when on Mdma!!! That usually makes a person want to drink *less* alcohol not more
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captainchristianwtf Mar 26, 2026 +10
I've been sober for a long time, but back in the day rolling made me drink like a fish and have a super-human alcohol tolerance. Doesn't feel great when the roll wears off though
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Chang_Daddy2 Mar 25, 2026 +218
It would be 3L’s (of premixed Vodka drink). Extremely common in Australia. Usually around 5% in a 330ml bottles or 375ml cans. So roughly 8 or 9 drinks which is pretty standard on a night out.
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Mysterious_Cow_2100 Mar 25, 2026 +14
When I go out I have like 2-5 drinks… I’m never going to get drunk enough to vandalize sculptures! D:
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TurelSun Mar 26, 2026 +78
I mean... she stuck googly eyes on it. Are you saying you don't think you'd ever get drunk enough to stick googly eyes on something?
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Ill_Reading_5290 Mar 26, 2026 +78
I don’t even need alcohol to stick googly eyes on things.
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WolfGangSwizle Mar 26, 2026 +17
On our walk back from the bars we walked through a park and thought it’d be funny to stack the picnic tables. We stacked them 8 high and it stayed like that for days. A good buzz with some friends makes you just want to get into some tomfoolery occasionally.
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Acheloma Mar 26, 2026 +16
The net on the basketball hoop at the local park was all ratty and needed to be repaired bc it was honestly gross and no longer functioned. One time my friends and I got drunk and were walking through the park and went past the basketball hoop. I felt like I could climb it and grab the net, so I did climb it but then cohldnt get the net down so my friend tossed me a pocket knife and I cut it down while they all cheered and then my friend wore it on his head like a hat and we called him the pirate king.
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GozerDGozerian Mar 26, 2026 +10
I know empirically that I can get so drunk that I would think it’s a good idea to stick googly eyes on things. It was a whole phase. Back when people got newspapers and there was a comic strip section, I would cut out oddly worded panels from them and apply them in random places as well. That was often done soberly.
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Own_Inevitable2493 Mar 26, 2026 +6
You were comic strip Banksy
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Baeolophus_bicolor Mar 26, 2026 +3
Funny. I used to cut those out too. Just one panel. Or I would cut the words from one panel, and put them on another pic for comedic effect.
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Alive-Resolution7844 Mar 26, 2026 +3
I mean, she was clearly carrying a big pair of googly eyes around with her. She was gonna stick them on that sculpture no matter how drunk she was.
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Mysterious_Cow_2100 Mar 26, 2026 +2
Correct, I am a law abiding citizen and lack whimsy.
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Chang_Daddy2 Mar 26, 2026 +4
When I go out I have about 16-20 drinks… we are all built different.
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Mysterious_Cow_2100 Mar 26, 2026 +7
This is true, but you might also have a drinking problem lol. Also the sheer expense?? I don’t go out much anymore but I paid $15 for a single whiskey sour with well liquor. Wtf mate?
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Chewed420 Mar 25, 2026 +63
No one can drink 3 liters of vodka in one day. Consuming such a massive quantity would cause extreme alcohol poisoning, likely resulting in coma, coma, permanent brain damage, or death. The body cannot metabolize alcohol at that volume.
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Boring_and_sons Mar 25, 2026 +108
It's that second coma that really gets you.
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suppository_wisdom Mar 26, 2026 +10
Coma, comma, coma
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bandswithothers Mar 26, 2026 +5
Coma, comma, chameleon 🎶
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Chewed420 Mar 25, 2026 +24
ya watch out for that second one! 😅
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jrob321 Mar 26, 2026 +2
Look at this one over here doubling up on their comas.
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winky9827 Mar 26, 2026 +2
Better than joining the triple coma club.
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Lirael_Gold Mar 26, 2026 +9
They're not drinking it all at once, and you'd be surprised what the liver can get used to (until it breaks horribly) Also depends on the ABV % of the drink in question, at my worst I'd get through a liter of gin (in sips) by about 3pm, then coast through the rest of the day until I got home and then drank the 2nd liter whilst playing games/watching movies. That made me sleepy enough to fall asleep. 3 would would have been questionable, but I can believe that someone has done it and not died. (also to be clear, when I was at that level I would have gladly died if I could afford a 3rd bottle, it was grim) (the stroke I had was the wake up call and I've been 2 years sober, hooray)
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UCLA_FB_SUCKS Mar 25, 2026 +17
At .48, you can almost say you had blood in your alcohol stream
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Far-Adhesiveness-740 Mar 25, 2026 +55
Damn, I’m double proud of you.  Proud that you got up to .48 and proud that you quit 30 years ago. 
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Ditka85 Mar 25, 2026 +36
The scary part is that I drank it at home, decided I needed rehab (again) drove myself to the hospital, completed all the paperwork and checked myself in. The nurse, who I'd met during an earlier stint, was shocked that I drove there.
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___coolcoolcool Mar 25, 2026 +11
Wow, you were that functional at 0.48?? Our bodies can do amazing things sometimes.
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missyanntx Mar 26, 2026 +6
That's the fun part, we're surrounded by functional alcoholics and don't even know it. /daughter of a functional nice tempered alcoholic //and even the best case alcoholics f*** their kids up
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Ar_Ciel Mar 25, 2026 +5
I remember old records of British nobility where some lords went through CASES of port or sherry a day.
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Somestunned Mar 25, 2026 +3
She deserves a medal not a conviction.
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d0ctorzaius Mar 25, 2026 +12
Yeah unless she vomited a lot of that up, I don't believe it. In my binge drinking days the most I ever drank would be ~30 drinks across a whole day. 3 Liters of vodka is like 67 shots, basically impossible to be conscious with that on board.
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008Zulu Mar 25, 2026 +8
Here in Australia we have a saying; Go big or go home.
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Kaffe-Mumriken Mar 25, 2026 +14
Where do you fit googly eyes in?
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008Zulu Mar 25, 2026 +23
Wherever we can put them.
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Small_Bee_9523 Mar 25, 2026 +6
As it should be.
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PauL__McShARtneY Mar 26, 2026 +2
One on each buttcheek before a public booting, or a drive by browneye is the patriotic way.
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Kaffe-Mumriken Mar 25, 2026 +3
Her abc is .48
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BON3SMcCOY Mar 25, 2026 +3
30 years is a long time, not easy stuff
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GenitalFurbies Mar 26, 2026 +3
Assuming standard 40% that's 27 standard drinks. That's Andre the Giant territory. Something must be lost in translation here.
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TheWhiteManticore Mar 25, 2026 +4
Literally replaced blood with 20% ethanol, the lady is an HPLC 🗿
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SteveJobsBlakSweater Mar 25, 2026 +6
🤜🤛 I’m close to two years sober now and my peak was about 1L of the hard stuff a day too. 3 is simply… not possible.
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ailish Mar 26, 2026 +1
Riiight? I'm not quite sure how she's alive, tbh.
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Im_Pronk Mar 26, 2026 +1
.42 while standing right here! 
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i_sell_you_lies Mar 26, 2026 +1
Just saw in another comment it was 3l of a premix -- 5% or so (my money's on 14-20%)  So let's say that's 3.5ish bottles of wine ... which is a lot, but if it were white, I could have done that in a night...  probably would have too.   Congrats on your sobriety - 3.5 for me
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sm9k3y Mar 25, 2026 +1205
Did they remove the googly eyes with a sledge hammer and chisel? And I love that she is "going to reduce" her substance use... haha so just MDNA and like 1 liter of vodka? And despite all that, the googly eyes were brilliant!
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510Goodhands Mar 25, 2026 +352
Exactly. They probably had double stick foam tape on the back, which could be removed with a piece of string and some adhesive remover, doing no harm to the sculpture at all. I sort of doubt that she had a big tube of superglue with her. ETA, someone posted a link to a video on the sun newspaper site. She is indeed brandishing a bottle of superglue; so the finish of the sculpture probably was damaged, it shouldn’t have cost more than a few hundred dollars to repair it.
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BaLance_95 Mar 26, 2026 +26
Heck, the googly eyes are an improvement
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sinsofangels Mar 26, 2026 +8
They should make it a tradition in the city for drunks to keep tacking the googly eyes back on (with an easy to remove option) like how Glaswegians keep putting the traffic cone on that statue's head.
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Shounenbat510 Mar 26, 2026 +7
I agree. I don’t really care for the statue, but the eyes give it some personality.
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mighij Mar 25, 2026 +78
After 3 litres of wodka and extacy she was more likely to sniff it then use it.
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theycallmejugzy Mar 26, 2026 +3
I like wanilla wodka.
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RedNewzz Mar 26, 2026 +67
I think you don't exactly understand what goes into a finish on a piece of artwork like that. You don't just hit it with a couple spray coats of Rustoleum. I do find the case and the intention of the woman fairly hilarious, but property damages property damage and she got caught so fair is fair.
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510Goodhands Mar 26, 2026 +49
I know exactly what it takes, and I have done it myself. Certainly won’t cost $100,000, or whatever the article said. They don’t need to repaint the entire sculpture just to fix a couple of divots. Ask any automotive body worker.
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Jivesauce Mar 26, 2026 +49
The article says that the sculpture cost $136,000, not the repair. She was fined $2000.
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anaemic Mar 26, 2026 +16
$2000 dollarbucks as well, so $1389 / €1211 / £1050.
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RedNewzz Mar 26, 2026 +10
No one said it costs $100k to repair. And though a good auto body guy is indeed a wizard, this isn't a kandy-kolored tangerine flake streamline baby and might just have a process unique to the artist.
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C5Jones Mar 26, 2026 +5
It's not a *what?*
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norunningwater Mar 26, 2026 +6
Most confident "what? Oh yeah I've made public art statues I know what they're made out of" I've ever seen
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dafones Mar 26, 2026 +64
For what it’s worth, other news articles state that she used super glue. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/38627247/woman-convicted-googly-eyes-sculpture-blue-blob/ So she probably did f*** up the artwork.
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cscottnet Mar 26, 2026 +13
There is a solvent for super glue.
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qrs136 Mar 26, 2026 +29
It ruins the finish.
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kmtnewsman Mar 25, 2026 +9
One and a quarter L on either side and rolling in the middle
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Umami_Tsunamii Mar 25, 2026 +1250
It’s funny how Australian government can pursue this case against a 20 year old that made everyone laugh, but turn a blind eye to the groups targeting and nearly killing members of the gay community.
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PauL__McShARtneY Mar 26, 2026 +290
The Australian government is not likely to go after its own police force any time soon, but I like the way you're thinking.
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Affectionate-Set952 Mar 25, 2026 +115
NGL. It looked better with those eyes on
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succubus-slayer Mar 25, 2026 +210
Oh Australia, where they let a guy go free who secretly recorded 150 women in the bathroom, and got caught peeping on another by security. Priorities.
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NessaMagick Mar 26, 2026 +24
In my state last year someone was driving distracted (fumbling around for a cigarette on the floor) while on meth and rear-ended another car on a bridge, killing a couple and critically injuring and traumatizing their daughter. The killer continued to drive after the crash, getting more citations for distracted driving. His punishment was 100 hours of community service and having his license suspended for two years.
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wyvernx02 Mar 25, 2026 +321
I have used those giant googly eyes before. If they damaged the sculpture then whoever made it did a terrible job painting it. The adhesive on them isn't that strong. 
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AdjNounNumbers Mar 25, 2026 +161
My daughter's first purchase when she got her first job was a giant bag of hundreds of googly eyes that she proceeded to put on everything she thought would be funny around the house and I never once damaged a thing peeling them off. Half the time the adhesive released on its own given enough time. I only know this because I left the hilarious ones in place. Anyway, she'll be getting her first apartment after next semester and I can't wait to visit. Already got the bag of googly eyes ready to go
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cloudncali Mar 26, 2026 +33
The kids are alright.
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AdjNounNumbers Mar 26, 2026 +13
Heck yeah. Her second purchase was an original Nintendo DS and a bunch of games that predated her birth by a few years ago I must've done something right
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zoobrix Mar 25, 2026 +109
Looking at the damage it seem like it's wrapped in some sort of plastic or rubber like material wrapped over top of the sculpture itself. Whatever it is it doesn't seem very durable. The real crime here is a city spending $136,000 Australian dollars on something that looks like one of those oversized animal climbers you see on childrens playgrounds.
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DerpSillious Mar 25, 2026 +94
The real crime is not leaving the eyes on, it's alot better with them.
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smurf-vett Mar 26, 2026 +16
Needs a party hat too
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DerpSillious Mar 26, 2026 +10
Oh I hope its a tiny fez.
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Zealousideal_Aide109 Mar 26, 2026 +4
a tiny cone party hat or little fascinator on its huge head would look hilarious!🤣
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ResilientBiscuit Mar 25, 2026 +14
In a previous article it said they were superglued on. So it sounds like she didn't just use the normal sticky back on them.
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Tin-Tin-K Mar 25, 2026 +24
It states she was under the influence of MDMA and vodka and used superglue. She didn't just stick hobby eyes on it.
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Masterweedo Mar 26, 2026 +6
That's why you don't mix alcohol & MDMA.
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WolfGangSwizle Mar 26, 2026 +6
It’s the glue that gets ya
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Masterweedo Mar 26, 2026 +8
Drinking alcohol, and carrying around Gorilla Glue is a recipe for disaster.
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bloomlately Mar 26, 2026 +5
She used super glue, even showed it off for the camera.
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Svennis79 Mar 25, 2026 +10
You are assuming someone tried to peel them off gently in a sensible way, and didn't just go at it with a wallpaper scraper.
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kvlt_ov_personality Mar 25, 2026 +12
Half stick of dynamite oughta do it
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Svennis79 Mar 25, 2026 +5
Wipper snipper & a chainsaw first. Maybe a blowtorch. Gotta be gentle!
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GoodShipAndy Mar 26, 2026 +13
I think you should not get convicted for objectively funny minor crimes.
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Quesabirria Mar 25, 2026 +44
Three liters of Vodka? She'd be dead wouldn't she?
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-bassassin- Mar 25, 2026 +44
The MDMA in her system kept her going, apparently.
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winterbird Mar 25, 2026 +12
Coming to emergency rooms near you. "We're losing her, doctor!" ... "200cc mdma, stat!'
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argama87 Mar 25, 2026 +35
The eyes are an improvement.
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breakfasteveryday Mar 26, 2026 +10
It's better with the eyes
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jdunk2145 Mar 26, 2026 +9
How can it be defacing if she added a face to it?
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WankSocrates Mar 25, 2026 +49
This definitely falls under "I don't think people should get in trouble for objectively funny crimes" for me.
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Sierranymph Mar 26, 2026 +15
Ok, but I really liked the googly eyes on it. 🤷‍♀️
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Alpha_Storm Mar 26, 2026 +16
I like the googly eyes. It's based on an ancient anteater, anteaters have eyes.
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Samesh Mar 26, 2026 +6
Someone put the eyes back 
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H0vis Mar 25, 2026 +26
I love the idea of being 'under the influence of three litres of vodka' because it implies she didn't drink it, because she'd be dead. I like to think one of those really big bottles of vodka started talking to her. "G'day ya c\*\*\*, got any googly eyes on ya?"
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Alive_kiwi_7001 Mar 25, 2026 +7
"What's that, Skip? I need to put googly eyes on a statue or Little Jonny won't make it out of the mine?"
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No-Restaurant-8963 Mar 26, 2026 +5
"She is committed to making better decisions moving forward," he said. NOTHING she can ever do in her life going forward can top this level of genius.
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Memory_Less Mar 26, 2026 +5
I hate to say it, but THE EYES HAVE IT!
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thencamethethunder Mar 25, 2026 +17
After three litres of vodka? Baxter I’m not even mad, I’m impressed.
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iGoalie Mar 25, 2026 +20
First I’d heard of this story/artwork and objectively I think she improved it.
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LoserBroadside Mar 25, 2026 +23
She turned it into Max Rebo. She’s a hero. 
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Miklonario Mar 25, 2026 +3
*Lapti Nek intensifies*
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MolitovMichellex Mar 26, 2026 +3
I'm crying laughing at 1am
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JohnHenryMillerTime Mar 25, 2026 +14
The googly eyes are an improvement.
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ldsdrff76 Mar 26, 2026 +10
I think people should get pardoned if the offense is objectively funny.
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Rance_Mulliniks Mar 26, 2026 +5
"It's only art if we pay a ridiculous amount of money for it"
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earl_of_lemonparty Mar 26, 2026 +5
I'll give $100 to the next person to do it again.
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The-Sonne Mar 26, 2026 +5
ABOLISH heavy handed rules abuse
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OddArmy Mar 25, 2026 +12
shit, i'd do that sober
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wherearemytweezers Mar 26, 2026 +3
Okay but *3 liters of vodka* ???
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UndaddyWTF Mar 26, 2026 +5
Amelia Vanderhurst is the most artist-sounding name ever, I am surprised they didn’t just file it as art.
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Greedy-Pilot-4538 Mar 26, 2026 +4
Lol seems harmless hope it was a slap on the wrist
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Daren_I Mar 26, 2026 +3
> Vanderhorst had been under the influence of MDMA and three litres of vodka she had consumed on the night of the offence last September, her lawyer Michael Hill told the court. Three liters of vodka in one night plus MDMA? How was she still standing?
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thereisacowlvl Mar 26, 2026 +3
It's a bit of alcohol wipes and a rag, wouldn't say it's worth a conviction, kinda made it look better IMO
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Complete_Entry Mar 26, 2026 +3
Public art is shit. Googly eyes are justice.
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brickiex2 Mar 25, 2026 +9
3 lites of vodka, that night. I don't think so Jim... She'd be dead
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Undeadmuffin18 Mar 25, 2026 +19
That's ridiculous Unless the woman put crazy glue to glue the eyes, the structure should not have been damaged by that. So no reason to press charge.
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epidemicsaints Mar 25, 2026 +38
She filmed herself using Gorilla Glue to put them on. >Speaking to the camera, Vanderhorst slurs: “Alright government, how do you feel? Your blue blob has “f\*\*\*king eyeballs on it, dog.” [https://www.the-sun.com/news/16133030/woman-convicted-googly-eyes-sculpture-blue-blob/](https://www.the-sun.com/news/16133030/woman-convicted-googly-eyes-sculpture-blue-blob/)
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squatch42 Mar 25, 2026 +19
Initially I thought the person who did it would be some sort of subversive folk hero. That video. . . convinces me otherwise.
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7LeagueBoots Mar 26, 2026 +6
Honestly the statue looks better with the googly eyes. They should have hired her to spruce up the rest of the city.
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MatterGlittering681 Mar 25, 2026 +3
https://youtu.be/zc7qJE9Nzo8?si=wSNCGJgXGSe27ZH9
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Mostly-carbon-based Mar 25, 2026 +3
3 litres of vodka!!! I’m surprised she was still alive to put on the eyes.
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MolitovMichellex Mar 26, 2026 +3
It's Max Rebo! She made it better imo
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creedular Mar 26, 2026 +3
3L is a f****** good nudge
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fox-mcleod Mar 26, 2026 +3
Here’s your headline: “MDMA and **three litres of vodka** she had consumed on the night of the offense”
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DevKevStev Mar 26, 2026 +3
I might have not known about this sculpture at all if not for her gag
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SmokeGrenader Mar 26, 2026 +3
Boys and girls .. we have the funniest way to protest this
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mensrea Mar 26, 2026 +3
The googly eyes were an improvement. 
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Jagcarlover Mar 26, 2026 +3
I like the eyes. Gives it a better look.
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GhostlyGhostBerry Mar 26, 2026 +3
If someone does it again it could become an avant garde ever evolving community art peice
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PowerfulMatter5591 Mar 26, 2026 +3
Still looks better with her change.
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fullonfacepalmist Mar 26, 2026 +5
Stone cold sober I couldn’t have gotten those googly eyes on so precisely. Good on her for that, anyway.
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Dansredditname Mar 26, 2026 +6
136,000 taxpayer dollars for that thing is the real crime
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MustardCoveredDogDik Mar 26, 2026 +5
Woman issued extremely harsh punishment for being hilarious and fun.
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crakkerzz Mar 26, 2026 +6
It looked better when she was done, they should have left it alone.
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spectra2000_ Mar 26, 2026 +7
I wish America had silly crimes like this instead of constant school shootings and billionaires
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Rrraou Mar 26, 2026 +4
They should have just rolled with it, The googly eyes are an improvement.
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Zealousideal_Aide109 Mar 26, 2026 +5
I think it looks much better with the eyes! In all fairness, I'm a 62 year old man and would be tempted to do this when sober, but I doubt I would actually do it!!!🤣😂😅
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BusinessEnchilada27 Mar 25, 2026 +2
Perfect placement for 3 liters of vodka!
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Iribumkiak Mar 26, 2026 +2
[Jeff Fartenberry](https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-professor-liked-a-photo-on-facebook-then-a-political-aide-said-he-was-supporting-vandalism/)
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tooshpright Mar 26, 2026 +2
I find this quite funny. But surprised she just happened to have googly eyes and superglue handy, on a boozy night out.
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twister6284 Mar 26, 2026 +2
Snuffleupagus wanted for questioning
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DamnOdd Mar 26, 2026 +2
Did you know you are not allowed to have fun anymore, new world order, we all must suffer, us being the 90%.
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Historical-Tough6455 Mar 26, 2026 +2
Ai journalism doesn't understand that 3 litera of vodka is lethal
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Gentle_method Mar 25, 2026 +5
3 liters of vodka. I’ve drank a lot in my life, like a lot. I’ve never approached that amount, that’s major league drinking like the female Wade Boggs
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jspurlin03 Mar 26, 2026 +4
She did not drink 3 liters of vodka alone. Drunk, or not, a $1000+ fine for googly eyes on a blob sculpture is excessive.
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androshalforc1 Mar 26, 2026 +5
>and that repairs to the artwork would be costly as the stickers could not be removed without damaging the sculpture. wait how did they try and remove the googly eyes a chainsaw? a heat gun and they should practically fall off, what kind of paint did they use on that thing and how has it stood up to even mild weather?
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6gv5 Mar 26, 2026 +4
>Local Mayor Lynette Martin said the googly eyes was "wilful damage to a valued public artwork", and that repairs to the artwork would be costly as the stickers could not be removed without damaging the sculpture. Rectified gasoline removes every sticker. Also WD40 works well, but check first that the plastic can't be damaged by applying a small amount to a spot out of sight. It's rare but happened to me once that a plastic surface became opaque after using WD40. Never had any problem with rectified gasoline (all sticker removing products contain it).
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SilverAgedSentiel Mar 26, 2026 +5
according to [https://sevoice.com.au/googly-eye-watering-fine-handed-down/](https://sevoice.com.au/googly-eye-watering-fine-handed-down/) she used gorilla glue, I'm not sure if they mean the [two part epoxy](https://www.walmart.com/ip/Gorilla-Glue-Epoxy-Clear-Glue/681614846?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=102663790) or the super glue
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jesuisapprenant Mar 25, 2026 +7
How is this newsworthy? 
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Glittering_Hope1114 Mar 25, 2026 +9
This is the most important thing I have seen in the last decade.
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dustmanrocks Mar 25, 2026 +8
Rage bait is what pays the bills. People will either be pissed she did it, or pissed she was punished. Win-win for BBC.
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VanX2Blade Mar 26, 2026 +3
No crime was committed.
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Xeroxenfree Mar 25, 2026 +3
There should be damage to justify a graffiti charge. Should have just been trespassing
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ramdom-ink Mar 25, 2026 +4
There was damage, referenced as per the photo in the article. The stickers could not be removed without damaging the sculpture.
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Xeroxenfree Mar 26, 2026 +3
Im saying I don't believe that it did damage. Something built to stand in UV and the weather all day isnt going to be damaged by weak adhesive on the eyes. Even if she applied super glue to it. If the piece got damaged then it was damaged by the removal.
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kingjamesporn Mar 26, 2026 +1
MDMA and THREE LITERS OF VODKA in her system, and she got the eyes bang-on straight??? I'm impressed.
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SoftlySpokenPromises Mar 26, 2026 +1
I'd call it an improvement. Most things are made better with googly eyes.
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_Nightbreaker_ Mar 27, 2026 +1
The googly eyes were an improvement. She should be commended.
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GamingWithBilly Mar 27, 2026 +1
>Local Mayor Lynette Martin said the googly eyes was "wilful damage to a valued public artwork", and that repairs to the artwork would be costly as the stickers could not be removed without damaging the sculpture. So you're telling me it cost $2,000 to remove the sticky residue!? Has no one ever heard of the $5 Goo gone spray bottle?
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savvy-misanthrope Mar 27, 2026 +1
It's a more serious crime for the city officials to pay an indecent amount of money for the so-called art that is the blue blob.
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Paliente Mar 27, 2026 +1
Was there earlier this month and no damage remains. Was like the googly eyes weren't even there
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