Highway Painting Sells For 3.1 Million

(Gunnison) A freshly painted stretch of highway between Sapinero and Cimarron has sold for an estimated three million dollars according to an asphalt broker here. The painting, completed on Thursday by elements of the Colorado Department of Highways, will be extracted before the weekend and replaced with a bare stretch of road until the highway artists can get around to repaving and repainting it.

The valuable piece, featuring a severe stark yellow on a black background is about 1/4 mile long by two car lengths wide. It features a constant dots and dash pattern with intermittent solid line superimposed at graduated and parallel points of the universe. Critics had predicted a positive response, reflections of the natural beauty of the countryside. It was always a popular hangout for magpies and other of mother nature’s janitors due to the proximity to a good bar and dancing magpies in the road every other Sunday when they got drunk

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