Drivers Surprised By Giant Middle Finger Sculpture Next To Highway

WESTFORD, VT. (CBS Local) — If you find yourself driving down Route 128 between Westford and Fairfax in northern Vermont, you can’t miss it.
Yes that’s right, you’re seeing a seven-foot-tall sculpture of a raised middle finger, carved from a 700-pound block of pine and perched atop a 16-foot pole. Oh, and it’s lit up by floodlights at night.
But the obscene gesture isn’t directed at drivers.
Ted Pelkey, who erected the provocative sculpture, says it stems from