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Bansky strikes again

http://www.newyorker.com/online/2007/05/14/slideshow_070514_banksy?slide=10

“The Elephant in the Room,” Los Angeles, 2006. An eight-thousand-pound elephant named Tai adorned with red and gold paint to match the wallpaper of a parlor. (The elephant in the room, a handout proclaimed, was global poverty.) Animal-rights activists were outraged, claiming that the paint was toxic. Los Angeles’s general manager of animal services eventually ordered the animal scrubbed down.