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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Was the bull eating lots of beans before this incident?

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.

I concur on the horns.

Impressive execution on the burst cloud thought.

Wall Street never nailed Madoff.
Wall Street made Madoff possible.

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

This is really good fart. I mean art!

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

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

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.

You never heard the old myth that Jews have horns.

Looks like that bull got himself a terrorist butt bomb.

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