You can’t drive through Leicester, Vt., without gaping at a 19-foot, 16-ton concrete gorilla brandishing a golden VW Beetle. Think of it as a monument to the law of unintended consequences: In 1968, the Legislature outlawed giant billboards to preserve the Green Mountain State’s unspoiled landscape; a used car lot soon found a way around the ban, planting its giant promotional ape at a turn along a country road.
