Old Jeremiah
This is "Old Jeremiah," a former British naval cannon that sits outside the University of Guelph's University Centre in my hometown. Students have been painting and re-painting it for decades. I've been told (I forget by whom) that the weight of the accumulated paint is heavier than the weight of the cannon beneath it. I have no way of knowing if that's true. But even though it seems unlikely, I'd believe it if someone trustworthy corroborated it. I suppose the paint is periodically stripped off. Who makes that decision?