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Barrel Monster Artist Gets 50 Lashes

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Barrel Monster Artist Sentenced
by Shirley Min
Raleigh MyNC.com
July 21, 2009

Raleigh, N.C. – It wasn’t a political statement about ongoing construction on Hillsborough Street.

It was just some art that was meant to make people smile.

That’s what “Barrel Monster” creator Joseph Carnevale said Tuesday after appearing in a Wake County courtroom on misdemeanor larceny and destruction of property charges.

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Creative Prankster Charged with Larceny

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Update, June 17, 2009: Police fail to see art in monstrous prank, AP [but construction company loves it].


Spotted on Fark by W.J. Elvin III:


N.C. State student accused of creating a ‘monster’
WRAL.com
June 12, 2009

monsterrobotRaleigh, N.C. – Raleigh police arrested a North Carolina State University student last week who was accused of creating a “monster” out of construction barrels and placing it on the side of the road. Authorities charged Joseph Carnevale with larceny for taking materials from a construction site at a roundabout project to create the monster.