Company pokes fun at new Jacksonville statue by creating ‘Lerp?’ socks

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Rock ‘Em Socks creates ‘Lerp? Derp? Lax? Jax?’ socks

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – You’ve astir apt seen it connected societal media already -- A task to make a “JAX” sculpture astatine the erstwhile Jacksonville Landing tract is getting a batch of attention.

It’s hard to archer if the sculpture says Jax, Lax, oregon adjacent Lerp... but it seems similar everyone has thing to accidental astir it.

Thousands of radical person already signed a petition to halt the sculpture.

A Change.org petition calls the program “a discarded of money” and presently has much than 17,000 signatures.

The 150-foot artwork is the brainchild of the architectural firm, Perkins & Will.

The creator says it’s a fluid signifier of h2o rising up from the stream into the City skyline... and that it’s expected to beryllium up for interpretation.

Love it oregon hatred it, retailers are present getting successful connected the hype. Rock ‘Em Socks released a brace of socks online this week featuring the planned statue.

The Jacksonville Lerp Statue socks are priced astatine $14.

The CEO of the Downtown Investment authorization said Love it oregon hatred it, the projected sculpture has received a large woody of nationalist remark -- which she says indicates however ICONIC it is.

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Carianne Luter

Carianne Luter is simply a societal media shaper for News4Jax and has worked astatine Channel 4 since December 2015. She graduated from the University of North Florida with a grade successful communications.

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