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Big Penny needs your vote … and also for you to remember she’s only 12 feet tall!

Posted on October 7, 2025 by farlane

Back to School with Big Penny by Stupid Lansing

The good people of Stupid Lansing remind us that the City Pulse’s Top of the Town contest is a chance for you to cast your vote for your favorite things in Lansing, and to help Big Penny remain the world’s only Award Winning Too Tall Truck Munching Bridge!!! Big Penny is nominated for (at least) these categories:

Best Public Art/Sculpture
Best Place to Cry in Public
Best Historical Place
Best Facebook Group or Page

Click to vote & while you’re there, consider casting a vote for the Lansing Guerilla Gardeners as well!

STUPID Lansing is the Society for Totally Useless Pranks and Immature Dumbassery & from teeth on an inexplicably 12 foot tall bridge to googly eyes on basically everything, STUPID Lansing delivers!

More about Big Penny on Michigan in Pictures.

Big Penny celebrates munching her 100th truck!

Posted on August 28, 2025August 28, 2025 by farlane

Number 98 by STUPID – Lansing

Back in May, we introduced you to Big Penny, Lansing’s Truck Munching Bridge & now she’s back to show the Mighty Mac it’s not the only bridge making news. This diminutive 12-foot tall bridge has taken some big bites over the years – so many that as of May 1, 2025 she had snacked on 87 semis since counting began in 2004. Despite the added exposure Penny has been on an absolute tear in 2025, and yesterday our friends at STUPID Lansing threw a party celebrating the 100th truck munched! WLNS Lansing was there to document this historic occasion, and you can head over to STUPID – Lansing for more on this important story & some great Big Penny merch!

Big Penny: Lansing’s 12′ Truck Munching Bridge

Posted on May 1, 2025August 28, 2025 by farlane

UPDATE AUG 28, 2025: Big Penny celebrates munching her 100th truck!

Big Penny Scoreboard by Stupid Lansing

The other day, the hardworking team at Stupid Lansing alerted me to the existence of Big Penny, Lansing’s Truck-munching bridge! mLive shares that the bridge was completed in the summer of 1928 by the Grand Trunk Western Railroad, spanning Pennsylvania Avenue (thus the name Big Penny) near the Potter Park Zoo. Read on for more about the bridge & to learn about how the Stupid Lansing team gave Big Penny its new fangs & eyes!

The 12′ 0″ bridge has now snacked upon 87 semis since counting began in 2004, and 8 so far this year! Will it surpass the 29 trucks munched of 2024? Stay tuned to Stupid Lansing for updates!!

The last three pics are from the Big Penny Google Maps Listing by RJ Cormack.