What's Going On Here, Market Street/Aquarium of Death?

OK, first we had the dead manta ray, or whatever it technically is, over at Market and Montgomery streets last week. Today, dear readers, we have this dead starfish sighting at the bus stop island at Kearny/Market. What?

SFist reader Shibi sent us these images and this:

I just took these pics of a dead starfish on the bus stop island at Kearny/Market (near Lotta’s Fountain). I just thought that I'd bring this to your attention so that everyone on SFIST could discuss the conspiracy-relationship of this starfish to that flapping (or not) manta (or not) ray of last week in roughly the same spot.

Something smells fishy/arty. What's going on, people?

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Aaaagggghhh it's the apocolypse! Eeek!

*runs to get bucket of chum to offer up to the octopus gods*

If this is an art piece by an Academy of Art grad I'm gonna be pissed.

you might be on to something.

I think Spongebob Squarepants might be on a meth rampage.

Better that it's dead, wouldn't want it to grow up to be Starfish Hitler, the Dictator of Hell.

I hope this is a promotion for the opening of the new California Academy of Science.


But the museum has already moved from 4th and Howard.

http://www.calacademy.org/index.php

@panhandledad

thats what i was gonna say!! hmmmm so perplexing!

Remember that Gary Larson cartoon with the mobster fish sending another hapless fish rocketing to the surface with a pair of styrofoam "shoes"? I think the caption said, "Carl is sent to 'sleep with the humans.'"

Reminds me of that.

If this is an "art" piece, I think the next art installment should be the artist being run down by a Muni bus.

art, or is there an earthquake nigh?

I predict the next item will be a small shark.

oh wait! come to think of it, probably a geoduck

Is this another one of those damn artist stunts? Just like the "artist general warning" bullshit stickers that the DPW took down.

Perhaps a blunt warning of the future of ocean life due to global warming. Next, a dead polar bear cub.

These two marine animals were going through a right of passage, whereby they are dropped off in the middle of the urban landscape and are expected to find their way back home. Not all of them make it back. Yes it's cruel but who are we to judge their oceanic ways?

i don't get it. can someone do some homework to find out what the message is supposed to be? i doubt this starfish or the manta were dead when they were hauled out of the ocean to make this political statement. i'd like to see us return the favor and drop the hippie fuck in the great white shark infested waters off the farallon islands to see how he does.

fucktard!

I'm with suckafree. What kind of asshole could be dreaming this super cruel behavior?

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