In the New York Region section (Bostonites, even native New Yorker Bostonites, don't receive a whole metro section) there's an article about a statue in Herald Square which has been recently restored and contains one of the most hilarious paragraphs I've ever read:
"However, over the last few years, the seven-foot-tall Stuff statue “was coming too far forward, and it started tapping the bell — and then hitting the bell, which was damaging it,” said Marvin Schneider, the 68-year-old New York City clockmaster, who has been maintaining the bell mechanism and the monument’s pair of clocks for decades."
I'm having trouble putting my finger on why, exactly, I find it so amusing. Probably the dire tone it takes to describe a statue hitting a bell with a hammer as though the citizens of NYC have been completely captivated by it. It's like that little girl in the well, but with bronze.
New York Times - In Herald Square, a Monument Is Ready for Action
