Tue May 21 20:34:07 SAST 2013
Tue May 21 20:34:07 SAST 2013

Olympic champ's gold mailbox defaced

Aug 8, 2012 | Sapa-AP | 1 comments

Civic officials say vandals have defaced a mailbox that was painted gold to celebrate Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis.

Jessica Ennis with her parents. Image: guardian.co.uk

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The Royal Mail has vowed to turn one of the distinctive red postboxes gold in the home town of every British gold medal winner.

In some places the painting has become a mini-event in itself, and crowds turned up to watch a mailbox being transformed for Ennis on Sunday, the day after she won gold, in her home town of Sheffield, northern England.

City officials said Wednesday that the mailbox had later been defaced with graffiti.

Postal officials quickly dispatched a worker to repaint it.

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Tue May 21 20:34:07 SAST 2013 ::
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Aug 9, 2012

WarrenG

Big deal. Paint it again and put a security guard on it.
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