The German fire services had to be called out in force to rescue a US exchange student from a giant marble vagina, located in a southwestern university town, after he crawled inside for a dare.
On Friday afternoon, the Tübingen firefighters received the emergency call: 'A person is trapped in a stone-vulva!' Twenty-two firefighters and a grand total of five vehicles had to rush to his aid to pull him out of the 120,000-euro sculpture, reported Schwäbisches Tagblatt.
The student had apparently climbed in for a dare, according to
local reports. One, likely very unreliable local newspaper
declared that: “the young man felt the sculpture of the
female vagina to be so attractive that he literally disappeared
into it”.
However, others suggested it was merely a photo opportunity.
“I was there!!! He just wanted to take a funny picture“
imgur user Erick Guzman wrote. “The fire department was not
really amused, and he was really embarrassed,” he added.
‘Pi-Chacán’ or ‘Chacán-Pi’ was designed by internationally
acclaimed Germany-based Peruvian artist Fernando de la Jara and
was erected at the university some 13 years ago. The name means
“making love” in Peruvian Indian. The statue is located in
Tübingen, southwest Germany, at Tübingen University’s Institute for Microbiology.
Some online commenters inevitably facetiously accused the student
of statutory rape, while others resorted to more traditional
“your mom” jokes.
Others suggested installing a sign instructing pilgrims to the
statue not to play inside the vagina.