Tweet of the Day, BEHOLD! This Is A Textbook Revenge Scenario edition.
This is, like, a Mission Impossible revenge situation.
Move over monoliths—it’s Peoria’s mystery Soviet Cookie Monster mural https://t.co/dalBRRCQ55
— Robin D. Laws (@RobinDLaws) December 13, 2020
The more I look at it, the better it gets. Speculation after the fold.
It seems clear that the property owner’s the one that’s been targeted for the revenge. To sum up: Mister X (we know it was a dude, or at least the front man was) pretended to be the actual property owner and found a local artist to do the mural on the building. He then paid the artist in full – this is where you can kind of relax a little, because the artist getting screwed out of his fee would have been pretty unfair – and got his mural of Cookie Monster blasting the world with Commie Rainbow Cookie Beams.
No, really.
The property owner went ballistic – which is fair – and then painted over the mural. Which is also fair, but unfortunate, because now everybody’s pissed at him for covering up the drive-by artwork and they’ve turned that corner into a shrine to the original. The property owner also managed to get in a feud with the artist, which is right on the cusp between fair and not-fair*, but he’s backed off on that. He’s going to put up a new mural, which will piss off still more people, and it’s amazing how little sympathy I have for this guy, considering that somebody stole his identity to slap up an insulting mural on his wall.
This is how you know it’s high-grade revenge, brothers and sisters. The property owner hasn’t done anything really wrong here, but the tacit assumption is that he must be some kind of burning, rotating jackwagon on wheels to be worth this kind of response. You don’t do this because the guy won’t fix your radiator right away. No. This kind of payback has to be earned.
Moe Lane
*Dude was being paid, dude probably should have asked why payment was in cash (I assume it was in cash). If he wasn’t, then the artist is actually in on the whole thing and that’ll shift the fair/unfair needle.
