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# No Comment: Claes Oldenburg or Real Life?
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/no-comment-claes-oldenburg-or-real-life/
- Published: 2013-09-10T18:50:17.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:45:04.000Z
- Description: According to Gothamist, a New Jersey man "recently decided to take his creativity to a whole new caliber … "
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, WTF, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:59 (2012, 2013, part 2)

![090913gunmailbox-1](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/09/090913gunmailbox-1.jpg)

(via Roger Buchko‘s Facebook profile page, where you can find other images of the gun mailbox)

According to [Gothamist](http://gothamist.com/2013/09/09/gun%5Fmailbox.php?ref=hyperallergic.com), a New Jersey man “recently decided to take his creativity to a whole new caliber, erecting a 350 pound model .44 Magnum in his front yard for use as … a mailbox.”