60 foot phallus

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Rory McInnes Parents' House                                                                                    Cerne Abbas Giant

Teenager Rory McInnes, 18, painted a 60 foot penis on the roof of his parent's home, a year ago, inspired by a documentary about the satellite images on Google Earth, to make his parents home stand out from the rest. The youngster, currently on his gap year in Brazil, decorated the flat part of the roof of his parent´s 1,4 million pound mansion in Hungerford in Berkshire with giant masculine genitalia, resembling an ancient fertility symbol. 

The symbol is clearly a copy of the best known feature of the Cerne Abbas Giant, an 80-foot (55-meter) outline of a nude man, which is carved into a chalk hill in Dorset, southwest England. Folklore in England says that if couples sit on his manhood, they will have a child. So many childless couples do this, particularly on equinox and solstice days. Even though web surfers could view the image on the roof from satellites, thanks to Google Earth, his parents and their other three children lived unsuspectingly underneath.

According to AFP: “the McInneses were clearly not keen on the idea of their rooftop art acting as a fertility charm. "We don’t want any more children, so the idea of sleeping under a giant fertility symbol is rather worrying," said 49-year-old Clare McInnes, while her husband added: "When Rory gets home he will be given a scrubbing brush and white spirit and he can go and scrub it off."”

So we now can brace ourselves in expectation over future decorations by teenagers to make their homes stand out for Google Earth!