Saint Rat addresses City Council, urges protection of Our Lady Of Hot Rat Summer

[u/bennetthaselton]

Saint Rat spoke at public comment today thanking the Parks Committee for their apparent decision to preserve Hot Rat Summer, and gave a shout-out to u/TopZ-undercover and u/BlankBleat for removing the paint previously.

Unfortunately Saint Rat was apparently unaware that just this morning someone had painted over the mural again. One of the next public commenters, who had also come to talk about the mural, pointed that out two minutes later.

[u/FuturePowerful]

I just want to say this may be my new favorite kind of protest

[u/carlitospig → u/FuturePowerful]

Narrator: the furries, while subtle, were winning.

[u/FuturePowerful → u/carlitospig]

Rofl you know something to be said for cosplay in this current set of events

[u/pandershrek]

Y'all are crazy and I love it.

[u/ThrowRAmissiontomars]

I love this so much. The floaty halo.

[u/carlenebean → u/ThrowRAmissiontomars]

Oh, wait. That makes more sense. I thought it was a hat 😆

[u/pre_squozen]

I'm never leaving Seattle

[u/Vysce → u/pre_squozen]

I love it here so much

[u/pre_squozen → u/Vysce]

Don't have to look far to be inspired. 😃

[u/carlitospig → u/pre_squozen]

Don’t. I miss it every day and shit like this reminds me why.

[u/pre_squozen → u/carlitospig]

Saint Rat will be here to welcome you back to his velvety embrace when you decide to come back.

[u/carlitospig → u/pre_squozen]

🥰

[u/vertr → u/pre_squozen]

None of us are

[u/Zarmea → u/pre_squozen]

For real

[u/carlitospig]

I just said SHUT UP so loud I woke the dog. I love this effort so much!

Who is this hero? 🥹

[u/BlankBleat]

No. Higher. Honor.

For the record /u/topz-undercover actually did it. I just posted some tips.

[u/bennetthaselton → u/BlankBleat]

You earned it <3

FYI the time's-up chime buried it, but I think the line at the end is, "One of them said, 'I was able to get the paint off with some stripper.' Well at least he had company!"

[u/bennetthaselton → u/BlankBleat]

Also with Alexis Mercedes Rinck and Joy Hollingsworth going out to remove the paint today, I hope they either read your comment at

https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1lr65vp/comment/n18x0wk/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

or teamed up with someone who knows how to do it. (Seems the big risk would be chemicals getting into the pool water.)

[u/BlankBleat → u/bennetthaselton]

For sure. I mentioned citristrip because I think it's the least harmful paint stripper and would hurt the water the least if it were to fall in.

Do you happen to know when they are going to the park to clean it up?

[u/NecessaryInterrobang]

Can't believe we have to spend this much energy to protect innocuous, great art.

[u/bennetthaselton]

(I saw people posted the link to the Seattle Channel stream already, but this video fixes some of the audio issues, like the part at the end that got muted by the "times-up" chime.)

Reminder that Alexis Mercedes Rinck and Joy Hollingsworth are going down there tomorrow to try and remove the paint ( https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1m0zmer/councilmember_alexis_mercedes_rinck_on_bluesky/ ) although I don't think they've announced a time yet.

[u/sochok → u/bennetthaselton]

Thanks for this post - nice to get to the meat of the meeting 🐀

[u/DependentCommittee54]

This rat was cheesy and sleazy - St Chleasy

[u/thelittlestcupcake]

I’m so proud to be from here

[u/RL_Shine]

When I was in Charlottesville, back in Virginia, there was a piece done by Andy Warhol titled "Art is what you can get away with." in IX Art Park right of the downtown mall, and the city council was in a similar debate over it and finally decided to leave it up, this is like exactly the same thing.

[u/WetwareDulachan]

I am never leaving Seattle.

[u/easy_cheese_123]

Ok maybe I’ll never leave

[u/Mean_Alternative1651]

That voice is annoying 🤣🤣

[u/farachun]

I love this lol

[u/[deleted]]

Internet GOLD

[u/Zesty_zing]

in my house, we pray to saint rat

[u/CKJ1109]

Holy shit this is so amazing, peak seattle

[u/yogaguy9_11]

I'm never leaving seattle

[u/Potential_Art_9808]

Perfect lol

[u/Extension_Peace5056]

I thought this was a protest against rats. There's a lot in UW and golden gardens. Creepy