I wonder if this will make This Week in Schadenfreude?
It seems that Sergio Furnari invested $100,000 of his own money to create a statue of a racist in the hopes of selling it for millions of dollars, only to find that nobody wants it.
A New York sculptor has been left furious after spending $100,000 of his own money to build a lifesize statue of Charlie Kirk, only to find that no one wants to buy it.
Sergio Furnari, originally from Italy, had hoped the statue of the deceased far-right activist, which he intends to display in Times Square, would raise “millions” of dollars. Instead, he said he has been inundated by messages from people saying they intend to urinate on the sculpture.
To add injury to insult, Furnari recently broke his foot working on the statue, after tripping over a roll of tape in his studio.
“Is it cursed? Maybe. I don’t know,” he told the Guardian.
He even set up an online fundraising campaign, but so far, that’s only netted him about $1400.
His current plan is to place the statue in Times Square on 10 September – the anniversary of Kirk’s death.
I wonder who’ll be responsible for cleaning up all the piss?
Meanwhile in Sumner County, Tennessee:
Just weeks after signs designating part of Vietnam Veterans Boulevard as the Charlie Kirk Memorial Highway were installed, they are coming down.
The change comes after Vietnam veterans strongly objected to placing the memorial on a roadway dedicated to those who served and died in the Vietnam War.
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Veterans said Vietnam Veterans Boulevard should remain dedicated exclusively to the 25 Sumner County service members who made the ultimate sacrifice.
In Georgia the Oglethorpe County School District paid nearly $300,000 to settle a lawsuit with a former Georgia teacher of the year finalist stemming from a social media post about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
High school English teacher Michelle Mickens was one of several educators across the country who were removed from the classroom for a post related to Kirk’s 2025 death. In a lawsuit filed in October, she accused the small school system outside Athens of violating her right to free speech.
After posting a quote from Kirk on her private social media account, school system leaders pressured Mickens to resign, according to the original complaint.
The district agreed to pay Mickens $270,420 for “alleged emotional distress” and $17,080 to her attorney to cover legal fees, according to a copy of the settlement agreement obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution through an open records request.
Mickens agreed to resign from her position and not to seek employment with the district again. The district also agreed to provide Mickens with a positive employment reference.