Titanic tribute puppet urinates in street - is it disrespectful?

[LaurenRiley]

A puppet show in Liverpool called Sea Odyssey began today with a 30ft Little Girl Giant parading through the streets, in tribute to the people that lost their lives on the Titanic 100 years ago.

The storyline is based on May McMurray's letter to her father, a steward who was aboard the Titanic and tragically died when the ship hit an iceberg on 15th April 1912.

His body was never found and he never did read the letter from his daughter who lamented his absence back home in Kensington.

As the 30ft puppet passed through Kensington today, it stopped, squatted, and appeared to urinate in the street.

Is this massively disrespectful to the families of those who lost their lives in the tragedy?
Especially to the family of May McMurray, on who the "spectacular" is based?

Also, this performance cost £2 million. Should this money be spent on something more respectful than a puppet urinating in the street?

I wonder if it's an overload of some form of hydraulic fluid that has to be excreted every mow and then. I can't find any photos of the hose/wee incident but as the puppet is a girl then I don't think they'd have used a hose if they were wanting to show her having a wee.

Apparently the puppets got 500,000 people to visit the city over the weekend which is worth £12 million to the local economy.

Oh, just seen that video thants been linked to. I'd love to know from the puppet team if it was meant to be the girl having a wee and if it was then what was the reasoning behind it. Just seems a bit odd.

Here, they say they did it because it's what little girls do.

www.clickliverpool.com/news/local-news/1215872-liverpool%5Cs-sea-odyssey-branded-%5Cdisgusting%5C-after-little-girl-giant-urinates-in-street.html

I saw the puppets and they were amazing. A lot of people from Liverpool have posted on another thread and most people seem to have enjoyed it. Certainly everybody I have spoken to locally loved it.
The money was sourced from the last remaining monies from the 2008 City of Culture fund (which had to be spent on something of this kind) and from sponsorship. The whole weekend is said to have benefited the local area by at least £12million which seems like money well spent imo. If any money has come from local taxation I for one would've been happy that the money was spent in this way.
People who neither contributed to it financially shouldn't really worry about whether it was worthwhile or not

'didn't contribute' not 'neither contributed'

I am I would have loved to have seen it in RL. She isn't real, nor was it real wee.

I wouldn't believe this, but no one could make something like this up.

Believe what?

Tbh, i do think that theweeing did bring the tone down and happens too often in anything to do with Liverpool.

I loved the Primark bag and the Ugg boots on the little girl and the Everton kit went down well.

The whole thing is unbelievable.

But then I live in the 'burbs. We don't get giant weeing puppets around here.

I hope she doesn't need a poo.......

I think she might start to feel a bit sick......