Cursing the government does not fix potholes. Spray-painting them does

Re:Cursing the government does not fix potholes. Spray-paint... by cjs_ac on Friday May 15, 2026 @09:15AM (#48148192)

Someone in the UK did this years ago, but they painted rather cruder designs around the potholes. Naturally, the media dubbed them 'Wanksy'.

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Re:Cursing the government does not fix potholes. Spray-paint... by kjs3 on Friday May 15, 2026 @10:04AM (#48148748)

This was exactly what I thought of when I read the headline. Very amusing at the time, and it somewhat unsurprisingly was effective.

I lack your laudable sense of decorum, so I'll post the link...

There have been copycats...

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Re:Cursing the government does not fix potholes. Spray-paint... by atmavatar on Friday May 15, 2026 @10:53AM (#48149452)

That seems like a huge missed opportunity to draw the goatse guy.

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Re:Cursing the government does not fix potholes. Spray-paint... by kjs3 on Friday May 15, 2026 @12:24PM (#48150552)

Agreed.

In less...anatomical...inspiration, there's a guy in Chicago who took this idea straight to the fine art phase:

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Re:Cursing the government does not fix potholes. Spray-paint... by BuildTheRobots on Friday May 15, 2026 @10:52AM (#48149448)

There's also a gent in Horsham who's recently been planting flowers in potholes to draw attention to them.

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