Mayor ‘sorry’ for covering town in penis-shaped Christmas lights saying he ‘didn’t realise until they were switched on’
A HAPLESS Mayor has apologised for covering his Belgian town in 90 huge penis-shaped Christmas lights.
Anthony Dumarey admitted he didn't know the bright white column lights with bulbous blue tips looked like phalluses "until they were switched on".
The red-faced bureaucrat quickly tried to fob off blame for the saucy lights, pinning the botch-up on council staff.
They'd been roped in to design them on the cheap as part of cost-cutting efforts.
All 90 X-rated decorations were revealed during switch-ons in the municipality of Oudenburg in the Belgian province of West Flanders, and several local boroughs.
Dumarey said: “The first time I saw them during the day, I didn’t pay any attention to them.
";[However] once they were illuminated, I noticed immediately.
“Let’s just say that we will have the country’s most talked-about Christmas lights this year.”
The Mayor noted "there has been a lot of reaction, but of course we did not intentionally set out to make them this way.
"Our technical department designed them.
“But we do see the lighter side of the incident.”
He added: “I see the funny side of it myself.
"We really have to do that in these dark and difficult times."
Council technicians designed the naughty decorations as part of a long-term plan for the area that included illuminated pyramids.
Despite their notoriety, the Mayor said: "I see no reason to remove or replace them.”
He's not the only official left embarrassed by willy-shaped objects.
Penis-shaped statues of leaping fish were torn down in Morocco after furious locals said they were "pornographic".
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The statue of two fish leaping into the air on a roundabout in Mehdia, Morocco was demolished after horrifying locals in September.
A few years ago we reported holidaymakers sharing photos of penis-shaped pools they’ve spotted in hotels.