{"id":1478731,"date":"2022-05-17T19:59:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T23:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1478731"},"modified":"2022-05-17T19:59:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T23:59:42","slug":"bullet-hole-in-johnny-cashs-hometown-water-tower-has-man-in-black-taking-a-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bullet-hole-in-johnny-cashs-hometown-water-tower-has-man-in-black-taking-a-leak\/","title":{"rendered":"Bullet Hole In Johnny Cash\u2019s Hometown Water Tower Has Man In Black Taking A Leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbullet-hole-in-johnny-cashs-hometown-water-tower-has-man-in-black-taking-a-leak%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1478731&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/4C106D59-F059-4255-A25C-94E7EDCD3CBD-scaled.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A vandal in the hometown of the late country legend Johnny Cash hit his water tower in the dark and when the sun came up the next day, exactly what the person had done was revealed, leaving an image of \u201cThe Man In Black\u201d taking a leak on the town.<\/p>\n<p>It happened in the small town of Kingsland, Arkansas, where a tower bares the name of the town in cursive along with a silhouette image of the \u201cRing of Fire\u201d hitmaker holding a red guitar painted on the side. One night, someone decided to shoot a hole in the groin area of the image of the country superstar, making it appear that he\u2019s now peeing down from the 50 gallon water tank, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbrz.com\/news\/little-rock-water-tower-vandal-leaves-interesting-mark-on-johnny-cash-mural\/\">reported<\/a> WBRZ ABC in a piece published Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor of the town Luke Neal told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yzPBPt0KGb0\">NBC News<\/a> that the image of Cash has \u201cbeen leaking for a week\u201d and he said the tower is losing $200 of water every day that it continues. It is estimated that to repair the leak will to cost $5,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou kind of run on a tighter budget in small towns like this, because really all you\u2019ve got to work with \u2026 things like this can set you back a little bit,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thv11.com\/article\/news\/local\/johnny-cash-water-tower-shot-in-the-groin\/91-46b5983e-6255-44e7-b260-d1840c4801c0\">Neal said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>The NBC News reporter noted that while it seems amusing, the vandalism was \u201cno laughing matter\u201d as the tower is loosing \u201cclose to 30,000 gallons every single day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Video on social media of the \u201cHurt\u201d hitmaker\u2019s image relieving himself has resulted in comments ranging from sadness to \u201chilarious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is hilarious!\u201d one person wrote. \u201cThey need to install a remote controlled valve in that spot to make him p*** on the hour! Would be a better tourist attraction than the Old Faithful geyser!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another wrote,\u201dOn a side note, that is damn good aim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople thinks it funny but a lot of hard work and effort went into getting the grant to get this painted,\u201d Betty Graham, the town\u2019s water office manager shared in response on Facebook. \u201cIt\u2019s sad that someone could do this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cash was born in Kingsland in 1932 and the town has a total population of 400 people, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/17\/johnny-cash-mural-on-water-tower-shot-by-vandal-springs-embarrassing-leak\/\">reported<\/a> the New York Post. In 2021, the residents spent $300,000 refurbishing the tower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vandal in the hometown of the late country legend Johnny Cash hit his water tower in the dark and when the sun came up the next day, exactly what<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1483487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1478731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1483487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}