Headline : Why did someone add a giant meth pipe to MacArthur Parks Prometheus statue?

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A piece of guerrilla art appeared at Los Angeles’ MacArthur Park this week, underlining the park’s reputation as a center of drugs, addiction and despair.

Prometheus is known in Greek mythology for rebelliously taking fire from the gods to give to humans, but at his statue near the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Alvarado Street in Los Angeles on Monday, he was using it to heat an oversized meth pipe.

“A lot of our work focuses on parts of the city that have fallen into disrepair, and this particular Prometheus sculpture stood out to us as significant — having eerily taken on the condition of his surroundings,” artist S.C. Mero told The Times.

For longtime residents, MacArthur Park is a shadow of the 35-acre urban oasis it was built to be. Today it is known more for rampant drug use and homelessness, needles strewn on the ground and overdose deaths from fentanyl and other narcotics in the park and nearby alleys. On occasion, medical outreach teams hand out glass pipes and test kits that can detect fentanyl or veterinary tranquilizers in drugs before they’re consumed in an effort, they say, to saves lives.

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