A red statue of a naked Satan was removed from a park in the Canadian state of British Columbia on Tuesday hours after it mysteriously appeared.
The anatomically correct Satan- with a fully erect penis- appeared Tuesday morning on a tall pedestal in a park in Vancouver. There is no word yet on who placed the nine-foot statue in the park by Grandview Highway.
Passengers riding the nearby Sky Train got an eyeful of the yellow-eyed Satan, standing at attention with one hand making a "devil horn" sign.
"Did erection last longer than 4 hours?" tweeted @SenatorTheo.
Others were seen posing underneath the naked lord of the underworld for pictures.
"As enjoyable as it is, it is going to offend a lot of people," Nick Davis told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Vancouver city officials swooped in and removed the graphic statue by 3:15 p.m. But instead of saying it was because the statue was offensive, officials said naked Satan had to go because it was on city property.
"I"m going to have nightmares tonight," one city worker remarked according to CBC.
Apparently not everyone found the devil statue offensive because Darryl Greer, of Vancouver, started a Change.org petition asking Vancouver Mayer Gregor Robertson to return naked Satan.
As of Wednesday the petition has 284 signatures out of a required 500.
