Why the hell do people refuse to think things through and continue to allow the tyranny of public artists and their Archimedian solar death ray machines?

City pulls sculpture after visitor’s jacket singed by reflected rays

Yet another piece of “sculpture” causing damage via focused sunlight. Feh.

You know, though, I’ve long wondered why we haven’t seen this sort of thing weaponized. Not militarily, as such as the weapons are too big and the damage potential too small for actual military use, but by protestors. Imagine if a quarter of all the sign-waving yahoos at the next Occupy rally had their placards made not out of cardboard, but out of 1/16″ mirror plexiglass, with a sheet of paper taped over it. Or even just foamcore with a reflective sheet of mylar. With enough sunlight and enough solar hippies working in concert, all manor of havoc could ensue.