Extreme heat melts head of Lincoln statue in Washington

The wave of heat Recent days on the east coast of the United States have claimed an unexpected victim: a wax statue of Abraham Lincoln displayed on a street in Washington whose head melted, becoming a viral phenomenon.

The 6-foot-tall (1.8-meter) sculpture of the country’s former president, the work of artist Sandy Williams IV, was placed in front of an elementary school last February, without anticipating the high temperatures that summer brings with it to the American capital.

Washington thermometers reached 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.7 Celsius) over the weekend, a heat that decapitated Lincoln, whose head has been melting little by little.

The refined humor of social networks got to work and the production of jokes about the statue has been considerable in the last few hours.

The sculpture was a smaller-scale replica of the one placed in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, a work built 100 years ago to commemorate the legacy of the president (1861-1865) who abolished slavery.