HE’S hardly the shy retiring type so it’s little surprise to find Geelong Mayor Darryn Lyons now greeting motorists heading into the city from the lofty perch of a giant billboard at Lara.
“We are Geelong! Giddy up,” the mohawk mayor exhorts visitors as they approach the city on the Princes Freeway.
The billboard has attracted strong, albeit mixed, response on social media sites Facebook and Twitter with scores of reposts.
Comments vary from praise such as ‘great’ and ‘catchy’ to criticism calling for the sign to be burned down.
In the meantime, the mohawk mayor has changed his colours … his hair colours, that is.
The brightly plumaged councillor swapped his white mohawk for a brilliant lorikeet look which he showed off to the Independent today outside his Elephant and Castle pub in East Geelong.
“I just had it done in rainbow colours,” he proudly said, sporting a brightly-striped jacket he picked up in a London op shop for a bargain $5.
