He’s quite the artist (Picture: MEN)

This is one way of getting the council to deal with potholes.

It doesn’t involve persistently calling them or starting a petition, but you’ll have to be good at drawing penises with spray paint

A mystery artist known as ‘*anksy’ has been etching the rude images around potholes in Bury, which has resulted in them getting filled in rather quickly.

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It’s working (Picture: MEN)

‘I wanted to attract attention to the potholes and make it memorable. Nothing seemed to do this better than a giant comedy phallus,’ the campaigner said.



He added: ‘It seems to have become my signature. I just want to make people smile and draw attention to the problem. It seems to be working, judging from the Facebook fan page.’

The local council isn’t happy of course, with a spokesman saying his actions are stupid and insulting to residents.

‘Every penny that we have to spend cleaning off this graffiti is a penny less that we have to spend on actually repairing the potholes!,’ he said.

And despite *anksy’s best efforts, not all of the penis enhanced potholes have been filled.

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