Seattle Removes Statue of "Illegal Immigrant"

[Mephisto]

Stubborn damn statue.

'Stubborn Scandinavian' sticking around in Seattle

POSTED: 9:59 a.m. EST, March 1, 2007

SEATTLE, Washington (AP) -- Unwanted when it was proposed in the early 1960s, a bronze statue of Leif Erikson on shores of Seattle's Shilshole Bay seems to be exacting revenge.

Crews attempting to move the statue have been unable to budge the 17-foot-tall Viking from his pedestal.

"That's one stubborn Scandinavian," remarked Kristine Leander of the Leif Erikson International Foundation.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/01/statue.ap/index.html

 

[steverino]

Wow. My girlfriend lives near the statue, and is of stubborn Norwegian descent. She is a Seatttle native, and I was going to try to convince her to move back to Chicago with me as that is where I am from. Looks like she isn't going to budge!

 

[Beerina]

So they pretty much waited for most of the group that paid for it to die off? Oh those brave politicians!

It does seem rather odd to put up a statue to him on the wrong coast -- maybe where the Vikings actually landed or nearby cities would be ok.

 

[steverino]

It does seem rather odd to put up a statue to him on the wrong coast -- maybe where the Vikings actually landed or nearby cities would be ok.

The statue is a symbol, and not actually the real Leif Erikson. So I believe it is valid to put a statue in a Scandinavian, fishing town, (suburban Ballard,) albeit on the "wrong" coast.