Flying piece of art causes museum chaos in SwitzerlandA giant inflatable dog turd Noun 1. dog turd - fecal droppings from a dog dog do, dog shit, doggy do faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, feces, ordure, BM, dejection, stool - solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels by American artist Paul McCarthy Paul McCarthy (born in August 41945 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Life McCarthy studied art at the University of Utah in 1969. blew away from an exhibition in the garden of a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a greenhouse window before it landed again, the museum said Monday. The art work, titled "Complex S(expletive..)", is the size of a house. The wind carried it 200 metres (yards) from the Paul Klee Noun 1. Paul Klee - Swiss painter influenced by Kandinsky (1879-1940) Klee Centre in Berne before it fell back to Earth in the grounds of a children's home, said museum director Juri Steiner. The inflatable turd broke the window at the children's home when it blew away on the night of July 31, Steiner said. The art work has a safety system which normally makes it deflate (file format, compression) deflate - A compression standard derived from LZ77; it is reportedly used in zip, gzip, PKZIP, and png, among others. Unlike LZW, deflate compression does not use patented compression algorithms. when there is a storm, but this did not work when it blew away. Steiner said McCarthy had not yet been contacted and the museum was not sure if the piece would be put back on display. 
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