Someone in the UK did this years ago, but they painted rather cruder designs around the potholes. Naturally, the media dubbed them 'Wanksy'.

kjs3 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This was exactly what I thought of when I read the headline. Very amusing at the time, and it somewhat unsurprisingly was effective.

I lack your laudable sense of decorum, so I'll post the link...

There have been copycats...

That seems like a huge missed opportunity to draw the goatse guy.

	▲	kjs3 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Agreed. In less...anatomical...inspiration, there's a guy in Chicago who took this idea straight to the fine art phase: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/11/11/pothole-...

There's also a gent in Horsham who's recently been planting flowers in potholes to draw attention to them.