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The Slutty Bean

By Sam Bakken in News on May 25, 2005 7:34PM

Cloud Gate at Millennium Park, ChicagoThe Cloud Gate sculpture has finally started her striptease. As you probably know, she put some clothes on in January so that workers could polish and grind her sexy bod. News reports said she'd planned on exposing about 20 percent of herself on Friday for Memorial Day revelers and then discarding clothing bit by bit as she felt comfortable—while wearing a see-through bustier so we can watch the workers finish off the rest of her. But a tipster tells us today that the Bean caught a glimpse of the Hancock rockin' a hard-on, got excited and flashed him.

From the e-mail we received today:

i was just at millenium park and the scaffolding is coming down from the cloud gate. about half of it is exposed now, it looked seamless from what i could see, but it looks like it could use some more buffing from those dudes in the hazmat suits.

So hurry to Millenium Park now to get a sneak peak. She might cover herself back up again for the official partial strip on Friday. It could turn out to be quite a sexy weekend.

Thanks Noah! And photo "Cloud Gate at Millennium Park, Chicago" courtesy of rachelleb.com.