AN ACT OF VANDALISM.
BRIGETTE:
POLICE IDENTIFIED THE
CULPRIT...TURNS OUT SHE'S A
TEENAGED GIRL. THE I-D CAME JUST
HOURS AFTER POLICE RELEASED
VIDEO OF THE CRIME.
KIMBERLEE SPEAMAN HAS MORE.
KIMBERLEE?
KIMBERLEE:
BRIGETTE/HOWARD, IT HAPPENED AT
THE ROYAL HAWAIIAN HOTEL... AND
THE ARTIST JUST FLEW IN TODAY TO
FIX IT.
PEOPLE STAYING AT THE HOTEL TOLD
ME THEY WERE APPALLED THAT
SOMEONE COULD HAVE
DONE THIS.
SURVEILLANCE VIDEO CAPTURED IT
ALL.
THE GIRL, REPEATEDLY THROWING A
PILLOW AT THE SCULPTURE BEFORE
GOING OVER A BARRIER TO DO MORE
DAMAGE BY HAND.
JIM BRUCE, VISITOR: "ITS AMAZING
HOW MUCH EFFORT YOU KNOW
PROBABLY WENT IN TO IT AND HOW
LITTLE IT TOOK TO DESTROY IT."
BRUCE IS ONE OF THE PEOPLE
STAYING AT THE ROYAL HAWAIIAN
WHO PASSED BY THE STATUE WITH
HIS FAMILY.
AND 7, THEY NOTICED THE HEAD HAD
FALLEN OFF OR THEY THOUGHT IT
HAD FALLEN OFF SO THEY WERE
DISAPPOINTED TO SEE
THAT."
THE SCULPTURE HONORED THE SEASON
MAKAHIKI AND FEATURED A MAN AND
A YOUNG GIRL.
THE VANDAL TOOK OFF HIS NOSE AND
COMPLETELY SMASHED THE GIRL'S
HEAD.
JIM BRUCE: "I HAD NOTICED THAT
THEY PUT SOME LEIS WHERE THE
HEAD USED TO BE. I THOUGHT THAT
WAS A DECENT COMPROMISE, BUT IT
CLEARLY DOESN'T
LOOK LIKE IT SHOULD."
THE SCULPTURE WAS CREATED BY
"SANDSATIONAL SAND SCULPTING".
AN ARTIST FLEW IN FROM FLORIDA
THURSDAY TO FIX THE SCULPTURE
AND IMMEDIATELY GOT TO
WORK...SLOWLY REVERSING SOME OF
THE DAMAGE.
ITS SAD THAT AS A SOCIETY PEOPLE
SEEM TO SHOW SUCH DISRESPECT TO
ART, TO OTHER PEOPLE'S PROPERTY.
THE
BOUNDARIES THAT WERE JUST COMMON
AND EVERYONE LIVED BY SEEMED TO
HAVE GONE AWAY."
LINA CATURANO, VISITOR: IT
MAKES YOU SICK, I MEAN... I
FEEL SORRY FOR THE ARTIST. I
THROUGH."
AS FOR THE SUSPECTS, POLICE STAY
THEY'RE JUVENILES...BOTH LIVE
HERE.
SO FAR, THEY HAVEN'T BEEN
ARRESTED.
KIMBERLEE:
THE ARTIST REPAIRING IT TOLD ME
THE SAND SCULPTURE SHOULD BE
BACK TO NORMAL SOME
TIME TOMORROW. BACK TO YOU.
BRIGETTE:
