very interesting
but why the second head? has it been sawed off and replaced so many times that they keep a space close by? (not serious)

Well... I don't know. It's a head on a stick (pretty gruesome, if you put it like that) but it doesn't actually fit onto any part of the actual statue. It's just staked by his foot. Maybe it's just "art".

Oh and children generally don't climb on this statue. This is the statue that all the tourists pose by :P

Ha ha, funny to read about placing beer cans in ole Hans' hands. :)

I know that in the Vigeland park in Oslo, there have been several attemps to do "fun" things to the statues. Sometimes they've even managed to steal one of the most famous statues: Sinnataggen. (Angry little boy stomping his feet) Other times they just paint him red or blue. :-S

Oh well.. :)