BY BEN VERDE
What a loon!
The alleged vandal who
tagged the Soldiers and Sailors
Arch at Grand Army
Plaza in December struck
again on Jan. 23, this time
scrawling a bizarre screed
about birds just a few feet below
where his original tag
was.
“If you cripple or kill any
more of my birds I will innihilate
sic you in this next
CARTEL WAR,” the graffiti
reads.
Police cuffed a 36-yearold
Washington State resident
for the vandalism and
charged him with making
graffiti, criminal mischief,
and possession of a graffiti
instrument — the same
charges he received in December
when he commandeered
a cherry-picker to
defile the 128-year-old monument
— before being arrested
when he couldn’t figure out
how to lower himself.
In the more recent act
of vandalism, the suspect
seems to offer a step-by-step
guide describing the amount
of birds a person can kill
before divine punishment
kicks in, with zero being the
best and one being forgivable,
COURIER L 16 IFE, JAN. 31-FEB. 6, 2020
but any additional fowl
deeds carrying some spooky
consequences.
“This is when you begin
to live the lives,” the cryptic
guide reads.
The vandal told investigators
he was acting under
the orders of his grandfather,
according to the New
York Post, who told him to
do it in a 1960 letter in order
to raise awareness of pigeon
killings.
“People are killing pigeons
and chopping their
feet up and I had to bring
awareness to that,” he said
in the original criminal
complaint.
Thursday’s vandalism
was first reported by Bklyner.
While the vandal claims
to be concerned primarily
with the annihilation of pidgeons,
he may want to consider
the mass slaughter
of Canadian Geese that occurred
in Prospect Park in
the wake of the “Miracle on
the Hudson” incident that
resulted in the untimely
deaths of hundreds of innocent
geese.
An alleged vandal defaced the Soldiers and Sailors Arch at Grand Army
Plaza for the second time. Photo by Paul Martinka
Bird God returns
Avian-themed vandal defaces
Grand Army Plaza — again!
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