Memorial Park Fountain Vandalized

[RiversideJodi]

Ugh this irritates me.  http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2010-06-10/story/jacksonville-fountain-defiled

[billy]

If this is the same place, I noticed in late March that the  memorial had already been modified by some knucklehead who wrote "The World is Yours" on the globe below the beautiful Beaux Arts figurine of the war memorial, a sterling example of how public art could respond to enormous historical loss from WWI. Yeah, I get the Scarface reference, dumb f**k., can we start with cutting off your hands?

[Timkin]

  This really pisses me off!   Probably some of the grafitti crews that tag School #4 and other buildings in the area.  Some people just have nothing better to do with their lives.  I dont know about cutting their hands off , but the fingers would be ok . little sh&%s!

[RiversideLoki]

I'm so sick and tired of idiots in this city. They need to keep their comments to the jacksonville.com comments sections and not deface a memorial fountain that is bigger and more important in meaning than their petty little grievances.

[buckethead]

I have spent more than a few youthfully drunken hours at this park. My fiends and I even had a bottle rocket war there in the aftermath of the 4th of July. Left over fireworks and alcohol do mix, as it turns out.

My generation was just as unruly as the current one, but we did not leave damage in our wake. It would never have occurred to any of us to vandalize the statue or fountain. (Although I have witnessed the statue being groped.)

The hand prints left behind however, were invisible.

[Overstreet]

Taggers always think their stuff is more important than others.

Seems most folks have fogotten the sacrifices of WW I and WW II.  You will note that June 6th the anniversary of the D-Day Invastion of Normandy, beginning of the end for Hitler,  was hardly recognized this year.  I guess after the vets die off the memory gets dim.

[lindab]

Overstreet, I think you hit the nail on the head. These disgusting idiots must have failed history or more likely skipped those classes. They certainly would never think of tagging the Veterans Memorial wall.

[copperfiend]

Rednecks.

[Timkin]

Idiots

[duvaldude08]

That is awful.

[hightowerlover]

What no picture?

[Captain Zissou]

This is what happens when parents don't discipline children.  Kids grow up with entitlement issues and no respect for authority or others.  They're immature and think that it would be 'cool' to vandalize a public monument because they have no concept of why the monument even exists.  No respect for the men who served.  Graffiti done well and within the confines of the law is art, this is not.  This is filth defacing a beautiful monument.  I hope these kids are somehow punished.  

[cybertique]

A few well placed cameras would help with this.

[Shwaz]

A few well placed cameras would help with this.

CCTV is tough subject around here.

[copperfiend]

If I was a JSO, the first people I would interview would be posters on the T-U and FCN websites.