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	by cjs_ac 30 days ago
	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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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...

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

Agreed.

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

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