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.