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Picnic Rocks message removed

 

MARQUETTE, MI (WNMU) – Many Marquette residents were stunned when they looked out to Picnic Rocks Wednesday.

Normally featuring the year of the current graduating class, the rock was painted instead with the phrase “beat your wife.”

In order to keep private citizens from venturing out on their own to take care of the graffiti, city officials launched a boat and removed the message with gray paint. They say obliterating the phrase sends a clear message that the community is offended by the idea of domestic violence.

Nicole was born near Detroit but has lived in the U.P. most of her life. She graduated from Marquette Senior High School and attended Michigan State and Northern Michigan Universities, graduating from NMU in 1993 with a degree in English.