Though he looks like a giant street thug and sports an eerie smirk, there’s no need to call the cops over this guy.

The sign for the 35-foot-high, 3,700-pound figure brags that it’s the world’s largest statue of Paul Bunyan. Leaving aside the question of exactly how many people would bother to build a Bunyan monument, that’s pretty impressive. And appropriate, too, since Bangor claims to be the birthplace of the legendary logger.

Bunyan slings his ax over his shoulder and grabs onto a pike (which may serve the key purpose of keeping him upright in a storm). Donated to Bangor in 1959 for the town’s 125th anniversary, the statue’s fiberglass and steel frame is supposedly ‘‘hurricane-proof,’’ able to withstand 110-mile-per-hour winds. Oh, and of course ready to chop down hemlocks when needed. Bass Park, 519 Main St., 207-947-0307.