Faile Piece Disappears

Photo on left by Luna Park, photo on right via AnimalNY

Well, this is unsurprising. The Faile prayer wheel bolted on to North 6th Street in Williamsburg has been uprooted by some enterprising art collector (eBay seller). AnimalNY reports that "Despite being bolted to the sidewalk, the carved wooden post with a spinning prayer wheel on top has disappeared after less than a week. While it’s not clear who removed the piece, the motivation for doing so is: their work fetches tens of thousands of dollars." Ah, the five finger bailout.

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By Jen Carlson in Arts and Events on April 25, 2009 2:55 PM

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invisibleman

luckmagnet...ahahaha...perfect.

i i i sold the faile.

matty

scrap metal. duh.

mx0

"carved wooden post" = "scrap metal. duh."?

luckmagnet

Epic Faile

MrCow

it was ugly anyway

bluesdance

i can't believe that no one has said FAIL-e

tnturner

C- C-Can I...have the knife..... Pleeeeeezzzzzz?

EricRoberts

That is the first thing I thought of as well.

mx0

pretty sure the hipster grifter is responsible for this, as well as the birth certificate thefts

Guest

nope, not slutty enough.

marcasm

maybe she threw it down her hallway

Toby von Meistersinger

It could have been removed by the city, with whoever owns the property it is in front of getting a ticket.

jaycjay

Or, it could have been removed by the same people who had put it there.

Spirit of 76

I can't imagine that this could have been legal. People can't just bolt things to public sidewalks without at least some kind of permit.