Residents throw eggs at penis-headed statue of Putin erected in Bell End
Organisers of the effigy are planning to create miniatures which will be sold to raise money for Ukrainian refugees.
A penis-headed statue of Vladimir Putin has been erected in a road named Bell End to commemorate him as “Bellend of the Year” in protest against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The effigy appeared on Thursday morning alongside a street sign in the West Midlands town of Rowley Regis and eggs which could be thrown at the likeness of the Russian president.
“You could just throw eggs at the statue, which people did so willingly and quite happily.
“It’s been very well received. One person said, ‘I thought it was my boss for a second’.”
“I’ve seen over the course of the year the devastation that has happened in Ukraine and that so many lives that have been displaced as a result of the war,” they said.
“So I thought, ‘I really want to help out and I want to do my bit and I want to try and raise some money to help those individuals’.”
Describing how the artwork was made, they said: “I don’t know what the material is but I gave to a couple of artists and they cut it out over two or three weeks.
“Then we painted it and made a plinth, which obviously had the sign Bellend of the Year just to make sure there was absolutely no way to deny what he actually was.
“The message is pretty simple – it’s exactly what it says on the tin.”