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A landmark clock shaped like a giant sex toy has turned a city in the Czech Republic into a laughing stock, despite claims it would boost tourism.

The huge black 'c*ck clock' was erected in 2010, in Liberty Square, in the centre of Brno, a historic city in the south of the county.

Officially titled the 'Brno Astronomical Clock', the peculiar timepiece cost £,500,000 to install and was built to be a tourist landmark.

Instead people have been slating it ever since and there are even claims it has led to antisocial behaviour, according to local reports.

The clock plays music ahead of releasing a tiny ball just once a day at 11am, turning locals into a frenzied "little ball collectors mafia".

One Brno native told Daily Star: "It is indeed fascinating how this dildo releasing one ball per day turns humans into c**ts.

"I think someone should do a dildo social experiment and report on how people behave before 11am around the dildo clock.

"The same people obstruct the clock for years to take it for themselves.

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"They queue up and fight to catch it and there are reports of gangs collecting the marble and then reselling it."

Recently desperate antics took new heights when someone claimed to have "hacked" the clock.

The source continued: "A couple of year's ago it was believed someone 'hacked the dildo clock' and broke the system so it released tens of the balls, but it later turned out it was a prank.

"Someone installed fake balls inside and inspection of the clock organised by the council revealed no original balls were harmed or lost."

Meanwhile the expensive centre-piece has left tourists to the historical city confused.

Recent Tripadvisor reviews state: "Every day at 11.00am the same four, dirty local hobos and drunks will wait for the marble to drop since early morning.

"Not a very attractive sight, and frustration and bore for any real tourists and their kids, hoping to catch a memory of Brno.

"The mayor should think about the negative image these guys bring to their city."

"It really is an ugly statue," blasted another visitor from Holland.

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While a third, visiting from Austria, recalled a violent scene.

"There is a queue and people are waiting for a little glass ball to come out at one of the exits," they said. "When I was there I saw a teenager girl hitting her arm into the face of a woman waiting just to get the ball."

One Australian tourist however was more kind, branding it simply "the most phallic time piece ever invented".

In the winter they even put a giant padded cover on the clock to protect it from the cold – which the locals brand 'the tampon'.

Even the opening ceremony for the clock was marred in controversy, with no one ever being able to work out how to tell the time.

In a video of the 'ball release' several people can be seen and heard squabbling.

One said: "Find what time is it and you'll be the boss. Cos you'll be the only one at this square.

"According to this clock it`s about quarter to shit" added another who missed out of catching the tiny glass ball.

Someone else said "I am totally disappointed, absolutely disappointed. I'd rather have ordinary clock in here.

"What is it?" queried another onlooker. "It looks like a dildo... it stands and has balls."

And so the nickname for the clock–which was initially installed to commemorate the end of the Thirty Years' War– stuck

Legend says the people of Brno tricked a Swedish General, who said he would withdraw his troops if the city didn't fall by noon, by putting the city the clock forward an hour.

Now if someone invaded today they'd be hard pressed to tell the time.