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13 Oct 2003

Yes, but is it something other than art?:
Hikers Find 70 Shoes Filled With Butter

A Swedish couple hunting on a remote mountain Sunday in Sweden's far northern province of Jaemtland found 70 pairs of shoes, all filled with butter.

"If we knew who had done this we could make them clean this mess up," Alf Kjaellstroem, a province spokesman told The Associated Press Thursday. "It's not going to be pretty when the butter starts to rot. And we have to wait for the snow so we can get up there with the snowmobile."

He said there were 140 shoes of all kinds — sneakers, children's shoes, high heels, boots and tap shoes — each stuffed with half a kilo (1.1 pound) of butter and spread out in the landscape.

The find was similar to one done by artist Yu Xiuzhen's in 1996.

His exhibit "Shoes With Butter," was laid out in the Tibetan mountains surrounding Lhasa, China.
Oh yeah, go ahead: something weird happens so you blame the Chinese artist.

"I've just discovered one hundred and twenty umbrellas painted with lard and buried in a pit of ear-buds inside a Holden Astra."

"Must be a Chinese artist."

You people and your Sino-ethnic stereotyping.

It's not going to be pretty when the butter starts to rot. That's strange - isn't that the title of Fred MacMurray's autobiography?

(Story found at The City of Floating Blogs. Those Haypenny boys get all the best tips.)