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August 18, 2008

Closing Bell: Mr. Bubbles Strikes Again

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April Fool's Day is still more than seven months away, but someone was having a little fun with the fountain in the middle of Grand Army Plaza today!




Posted by Brownstoner at 4:00 PM | Comments (15)
Categories: Closing Bell, Park Slope, Prospect Heights

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awesome.

Posted by: KHuebbe at August 18, 2008 4:20 PM

Hilarious.

Not.

Posted by: BrooklynButler at August 18, 2008 4:23 PM

Teenagers! what are you going to do?

Posted by: Pragonetti at August 18, 2008 4:30 PM

It probably needed a good clean - the city won't do it.

Posted by: dittoburg at August 18, 2008 4:33 PM

That was really stupid.

Posted by: East New York at August 18, 2008 4:50 PM

it is both stupid and awesome!

Posted by: z at August 18, 2008 4:52 PM

R.I.P.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Bubble

It's quite touching, actually:

Posted by: fkerm645 at August 18, 2008 5:14 PM

Actually, dittoburg, the city (or its proxy: the Prospect Park Alliance) cleaned and re-built the fountain and entire plaza a few years back. Which brings me to my initial reaction when I saw the picture: what does all that soap or whatever do to the plumbing and pump and statuary? Maybe nothing; maybe not so good.

Posted by: altervoce at August 18, 2008 5:30 PM


I agree with altervoce. For years the fountain was not working, the statuary was crumbling and the park was a dirty mess. Finally the fountain was cleaned up and nicely resotred and today the fountain and the little green space in which it sites both live up to their intentions. That is, until some jackasses with nothing better to do decided they need to screw around with this incredibly cool fountain. It's not funny or awesome, it's f-ked up.

Posted by: East New York at August 18, 2008 5:38 PM

"the little green space in which it sites"

Read: "sits."

Posted by: East New York at August 18, 2008 5:41 PM

I think it IS kinda funny...

but prolly not so great to be dumping detergent (phosphates?) unnecessarily into the environment.

Posted by: mothra at August 18, 2008 6:15 PM

What you don't see in that picture is that there are a bunch of people in the fountain washing their clothes. It's a new summer event sponsored by the city.

Posted by: werner at August 18, 2008 6:22 PM

Love it!

Posted by: superstooper at August 18, 2008 8:18 PM

Stupid prank by a total ass.

Posted by: Guvna at August 18, 2008 11:00 PM

Dumb asses with too much free time.

Posted by: Xander Crews at August 19, 2008 1:48 PM

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