" A person is clamped in a stone Vulva". This emergency call went in at the police in Tübingen. An American exchange student wanted to explore the work of art - and remained stuck.
US student is rescued from giant vagina sculpture in Germany More than 20 firefighters free exchange student from the artwork Chacán-Pi (Making Love) by Fernando de la Jara in Tübingen
The mayor of Tübingen told the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper that he struggled to imagine how the accident could have happened, "even when considering the most extreme adolescent fantasies. To reward such a masterly achievement with the use of 22 firefighters almost pains my soul."
His friend posts that "the fire department was not really amused, and he was really embarrassed. But now happy that he is 1st on
reddit!"
But was it an accident or an act of stochastic terrorism? The sculpture is in front of the Institute for Virology and Microbiology, but surely the artwork itself was reproduced in mass media or perhaps even available online, and being in a public space it was inevitable that someone would attack it head on in a solitary act of terrorism.
This teenager was surely not the first child soldier to attempt an attack on a public space and certainly not the first
male to violate a pubic space so violently as many iconoclasts have done throughout history so by definition it must be:
Stochastic terrorism is the use of mass communications to stir up random lone wolves to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable.
LASZLO TOTH, who damaged the Pieta with a hammer on 21 May 1972, was never charged with a criminal offence. On 29 January of the following year he was declared by a Rome court to be a socially dangerous person and was ordered confined to a mental hospital for at least two years. On 9 February 1975, the Hungarian-born, Australian geologist was released from the hospital and deported from Italy as an undesirable alien. He was sent back to Australia, where he was not detained by the authorities; Despite his recent absence from the public eye, he has managed to achieve some level of immortality, even aside from the perpetual linking of his name with the attack on the Pieta, in which he wielded a hammer and cried, "I am Jesus Christ - risen from the dead."