{"id":502122,"date":"2026-03-29T17:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T17:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/502122\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T17:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T17:29:08","slug":"penis-graffiti-drawn-on-potholes-in-richmond-road-worthing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/502122\/","title":{"rendered":"Penis graffiti drawn on potholes in Richmond Road Worthing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Images taken today, March 29, show two potholes on Richmond Road, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theargus.co.uk\/communitypages\/worthing\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Worthing<\/a>, which have been defaced with penis graffiti.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The graffiti outlines two large potholes opposite the junction to Gratwicke Road.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>The graffiti has been drawn around two large potholes in the road (Image: Sussex News and Pictures)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This is not the first time a disgruntled driver has taken action against the potholes in Worthing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theargus.co.uk\/news\/25503055.penis-graffiti-drawn-around-pothole-worthing\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Last year, a penis was also drawn around a pothole on Portland Road.<\/a> The older graffiti appears different.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theargus.co.uk\/topics\/west-sussex-county-council\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">West Sussex County Council<\/a> criticised the incident and urged people to &#8220;not risk their lives&#8221; by painting on roads.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokeswoman for the council said at the time: \u201cWe do not condone vandalism and urge people not to risk their lives (and, potentially, other people\u2019s lives if they cause an accident) by going on a live carriageway to paint graffiti.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Adding graffiti of this nature won\u2019t speed up a repair or mean we undertake a repair when there is no safety issue present.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>The defaced pothole on Portland Road, in Worthing, last year (Image: Supplied)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In May 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theargus.co.uk\/news\/24336743.vandal-sprays-penises-around-potholes-west-sussex-village\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">vandals also drew penises around two large potholes in Tangmere.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The drawings were larger than a car and could be seen from the sky.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Two large potholes at the junctions with Tangmere Road, Malcolm Road, and Meadow Way were targeted by the frustrated vandal.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  West Sussex County Council have been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Images taken today, March 29, show two potholes on Richmond Road, Worthing, which have been defaced with penis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-502122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}