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Unwanted Statue of Deranged Stock Trader Finally Finds a Home

April 5th, 2009

Long a familiar sight in front of the New York Stock Exchange building, the statue of a deranged stock trader has fallen on tough times.

The target of increasing ire, the statue has come to symbolize the excesses of Wall Street, the mortgage industry, shareholders, stock brokers, high-powered CFO's, incompetent bureaucrats and politicians and the money-grubbing practices that have ushered the world into economic chaos.

The statue has been offered free to any taker, but has had a hard time finding a home. After facing numerous discouraging rejections by museums and cities throughout the world, the statue has finally found a place to rest it's tired bronze shoes.

A shrill cry of warning goes up as workers try to lower the statue into the middle of this prarie dog town.

The biting sarcasm of this mannikin in an upper Michigan roadside museum caused statue owners to beat a hasty retreat after they had suggested the statue might be placed in the museum's permanent collection.

Children in a third-world slum seemed largely indifferent to the statue's presence in their neighborhood. It was later removed.

After owners made an offer to replace "the old statue in that alcove with a newer, better one," the city of Florence came up with an alternate location (right) and suggested renaming the statue to 'The Flailing Man.'

The story did finally end happily for all concerned, however. The Museum of Cryptozoology in Cincinnati considered the statue a welcome addition to it's Michigan Dogman diorama.

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