pylon man love – please dont ask me why it’s called that, cuz i actually have NO clue…i saw the pic, someone else had posted “pylon man love”….

Pylon Man Love

and the story behind it:
Sunday August 3rd, 1997

Later on a classic U2 moment occurred when Bono and a few other folks went out for the evening. The band had been pestered by a couple of paparazzi photographers all day, so for the evening’s outing we went by car to avoid any further hassle – after all, the gig was yesterday, so theoretically the fuss should have died down to some extent. Anyhow, our paparazzi friends were not to be deterred and jumped into their car to follow. The result was of course a car chase through the streets of Gothenburg, which got increasingly out of hand. Coming down a side street, Bono spotted a pile of red traffic cones by the side of the road. Without a word he pulled the car over and signaled everyone to assemble a road-block with them as the paparazzi car appeared around the corner. Mayhem ensued, with people running all over the place wielding traffic cones and the photographers taking aim as best they could. Then the fatal blow. As the photographers got out of their car to get a closer view, Howie B. circled round, ran past their car and in one graceful motion swooped in and stole the car keys. Everyone jumped back into our vehicle and sped off, leaving the photographers gutted to find their steed disabled. I can still hear Howie laughing now.

Monday August 4th

This morning’s headline in the Gothenburg daily paper was by a picture of the two photographers from last night and said (in Swedish) “Can we have our car keys back?”. Actually, we;d already left the stolen keys at the reception of the hotel (where they knew we were staying), so they’d eventually find them. Besides which they did get a couple of classic snapshots of Bono wrestling with these giant red traffic cones, so they had got some kind of result. It was all very funny, but all the same it was probably a good time to leave town.
from u2.com

why this is significant:
we currently have 2 orange pylons in our storage room, that we liberated from the parking lot this weekend… along with a curious george doll with no eyes, that we found sitting on the stair well….a pumpkin from the corn maze….my rad “the history of the music video in the 80s” poster advertisement for the lecture that is on tuesday night (featuring none other than michael jackson and u2)…and the 2 parking lot closed signs that we liberated 2 weeks ago 🙂 we tried to liberate the sign on the outside of a porta potty, but it was a sticker – wouldn’t come off….we might have liberated something else this weekend, but i can’t remember what it was….the pumpkin liberation was a drive by…LOL. carolyn did the dirty work, we drove by with the car for a quick get away 🙂 hoodlums, all of us