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Madoff Messed With the Bull...

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Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP

Uh oh, it's bad luck to walk under a Ponzi schemer! Chinese artist Chen Wenling has created this sculptured masterpiece entitled "What You See Might Not Be Real" (or as we like to call it: MadBull). Yes, that man pinned to the wall is jailed financier Bernard Madoff. The piece is currently on display at a gallery in Beijing, China, but we have high hopes that one day it will take the place of the Wall Street Bull.

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  • Mr. Shankly

    Devil horns by themselves antisemitic? Really? That never would have occurred to me until mentioned here.

  • JenChungsBaby

    You never heard the old myth that Jews have horns.



    Looks like that bull got himself a terrorist butt bomb.

  • Rocknrope

    Yeah, part of me thinks it's people being too sensitive, as I've heard several comparisons to Madoff being described as "the devil" and "rotting in hell" by his victims, other jews. I guess as he was such a prominent jew, people are reading more into it.

  • NannyState

    Should be in the foyer at the Justice Department, next to the topless "Blind Justice" with the blue curtain.

  • valeriob

    this is totez awesome

  • matty

    This is really good fart. I mean art!

  • DanielJ

    Wish it looked a little more like the actual Madoff. And yeah the devil horns on the Jew is a bit off-putting.

  • ANGRYGOD11

    Wall Street never nailed Madoff.

    Wall Street made Madoff possible.

  • Manitoba2

    The location of the shoes, and the propulsion fart make little sense.



    Plus, as little as I may like Madoff and his schemes, seeing a an identifiably Jewish man with devil horns makes me uncomfortable - I could have done without that touch.



    I'd like to see someone install a bear on Wall Street, behind the bull, making the bull its biatch.

  • Game Changer

    I concur on the horns.



    Impressive execution on the burst cloud thought.

  • Clarice City

    Awesome.

  • Clarice City

    Wait a minute. I knew this guy looke familiar:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuVg3P7oIwY

  • farleft

    Was the bull eating lots of beans before this incident?

  • schadenfreudian mensch

    Soybeans.

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