Vandalism

TORTILLA BANDIT: Man Vandalizes Cars, But Steals Nothing And Leaves Tortillas

AP | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Car Thief Leaves Tortillas, Man Breaks Into Cars Leaves Tortillas, Dumb Crime, Car Theft, Vandalism, Washington, Seattle Car Vandal Tortilla, Tortilla Bandit, Seattle, Car Vandal Tortillas, Weird News News

SEATTLE -- Seattle police are scratching their heads about this one. A car prowler shattered a window of a parked Jeep, stole nothing and left behind...

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Foreclosure Vandals Threaten Prospective Homeowners: 'Only Going To Get Worse'

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Drug Use, Video, Minnesota, Vandalism, Foreclosure Vandalism, Huntington Beach, Squatting, Foreclosure, ABC News, Abandoned Homes, Blights, Slidepollajax, Las Vegas, Business News

The painful process of foreclosure sometimes carries over to the next prospective buyers. In Anoka, Minnesota, twenty-somethings Nate Kruckeberg a...

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Student Pees On MacBooks, Costs School $36,000

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: School Technology, School Vandalism, Student Crime, Macbook, Apple, School Crime, Vandalism, Student Arrested, Technology in Schools, Apple News, School Laptops, School Computers, Apple Products, Education News

An 11-year-old male student at Upper Allen Elementary School in Mechanicsburg, Pa., is facing serious consequences after he urinated on the school's M...

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Why Did This Man Graffiti An Angry Message His Own House?

Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Texas, Video, Man Graffitis Own Home, Texas Crime, Vandalism, Graffiti, Stolen Truck Graffiti, Daryl McClain, Weird Texas, Weird News News

"To the mother fu----- that stole my truck. URA Dead MAN." That's Daryl McClain's message -- spray-painted in bold black letters on his garage door...

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One American Mosque: Two Crazy Acts

Dr. Faheem Younus | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Virginia, Chantilly, Islam, Synagogue, Church, Zujaja Tauqeer, Ahmadiyya, America, Dr. Abdus Salam, Vandalism, Yusuf Lateef, Temple, Mosque, Religion News

There is a bright line distinction, though, between both crazy acts: one is driven by knowledge and love, while the other by ignorance at best, and hatred at worse.

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Maldives Museum Reopens After Vandalism

AP | By KRISHAN FRANCIS | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Political Unrest, Politics, Islam, Muslim Extremists, Pre Islamic Artifacts, Ali Waheed, Sri Lanka, Vandalism, Maldives, Maldives Politics, Muslim Extremism, Arts News

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- The Maldives' national museum reopened Tuesday without some of its most valuable exhibits a week after a mob of suspected religi...

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Leesburg's Crucified Skeleton Santa Is Now Decapitated

The Huffington Post | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Virginia, Holidays, Video, First Amendment, Santa, Crime, Vandalism, Christmas, Atheists, Loudoun County Courthouse, DC News

WASHINGTON -- The Loudoun County Courthouse's inflammatory Santa Claus, a Christmas display of a skeleton St. Nick hanging on a cross that was torn do...

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Woman Slams City Hall -- With Raccoon Carcass

AP | Posted 02.03.2012

Read More: Weird Vermont, Raccoon Slammed Against City Hall, Woman Slams Raccoon Against Building, Raccoon Slammed Against Building, Vandalism, Animals in the News, Vermont Crime, Burlington Vermont, Woman Throws Raccoonn, Crime News

BURLINGTON, Vt. -- Police in Vermont say a woman who might have been angry about a dead raccoon left on a street took its bloody carcass to City Hall ...

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From Alexandria to Zuccotti Park: They've Been Destroying Books For 2,000 Years

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 01.25.2012

Read More: Civil Liberties, Baghdad Library, Occupy Wall Street, Zuccotti Park, Library at Alexandia, Michael Bloomberg, Vandalism, House of Wisdom, Constitution, Politics News

Fahrenheit 451: The temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns. They're back. But then, they've never gone away. The Book Killers have...

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Fashionably Late: Style News You Might Have Missed This Week

The Huffington Post | Marielle Bingham | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Chloe Sevigny, Kate Moss, Vogue, Kate Moss Photograph, The Row, Jennifer Garner Pregnant, Lady GaGa, Marilyn Monroe, Commercials, Maternity Style, Lily Cole Protests, Gwen Stefani Target Line, Vandalism, Barneys New York, Harajuku Mini, Magazine Sales, Dolce and Gabbana, Duchess of Cambridge, Marilyn Monroe Beauty Secrets, Donatella Versace, Graffiti on Celine Flagship, Rachel Zoe, Amy Winehouse, Versace for H&M, Snooki, Alber Elbaz, Marykate and Ashley Olsen, Designers, Celine, Gagas Workshop, Kate Middleton, Cambridge University, Auctions, Style News

Welcome to Fashionably Late, where we round up the Style scraps that didn't make it to our news page this week. Click through and catch up on what els...

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Strike Puts Major Leonardo Da Vinci Exhibit In Danger

The Observer | Dalya Alberge | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: UK, National Gallery, London Protest, Leonardo, Vandalism, Protest, Leonardo Da Vinci, Da Vinci, London, UK Arts, Arts News

The National Gallery in London is facing the prospect of major strike disruption during next month's Leonardo da Vinci blockbuster exhibition, the Obs...

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Series Of Bansky Artworks Vandalized

Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Banksy Street Art, United Kingdom, Bristol, Bristol Children's Hospital, North Bristol Social Club, Vandalism, Street Art, Graffiti, Graffiti-Art, UK Arts, Banksy, Banksy Versus Bristol Museum, Saeed Ahmed, Arts News

Stories of the Banksy's artwork increasing property values across England have become a hot-button topic in the art world, but it seems the city of Br...

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Banksy and Fairey Headline Urban Art Show At Bonhams

Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Urban Art Sale, French Street Art, Ben Eine, Urban Art, Street Art, Joe Rush, Obama, Adam Neate, Banksy, Shephard Fairey, Blek the Rat, Obama Change, Bonham's, Vandalism, Graffiti, Nick Walker, Cyclops, Street Art Sale, Fairey, Mutual Art, Arts News

Via Mutual Art. Whether it’s on the floor or in the street, Urban Art continues to be popular with the general public and high-end art collectors...

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Man Charged With Spray Painting His Name On Grand Canyon

Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: Duck on a Rock Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon, Video, Duck on a Rock, Grand Canyon Spray Paint, Spray Paint, Nature, Vandalism, Graffiti, Lucien Lionel Chenier Grand Canyon Spray Paint, Lucien Lionel Chenier, Green News

So much for "leave no trace." A Canadian man faces two federal charges after allegedly spray painting his name on a famous Grand Canyon National Pa...

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Damien Hirst Statue Vandalized

BBC News | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Art Crime, Art, Hirst Statue Vandalized, Charity, Public Art, Crime, England, Vandalism, Bristol England, Art Charity, Contemporary Art, Damien Hirst, Damien Hirst Statue, UK Arts, Arts News

A 22ft (6.7m) high statue by Damien Hirst being displayed on a balcony in Bristol has been vandalised. A graffiti tag was sprayed on the £1.5m scu...

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WATCH: Berlin Experiences Surge Of Mysterious Arson Attacks On Cars

AP | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Berlin Car Arson Attacks, Video, Car Arson Attacks, Automobiles, Berlin Germany, Vandalism, Arson, Berlin, World News

BERLIN (AP) -- Berlin police say a new spate of arson attacks on cars in the German capital is continuing into a second week despite their efforts to ...

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Teens Plead Not Guilty To July 4 School Ransacking [VIDEO]

Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Washington High Schools, School Vandalism, Juvenile Court, Washington Schools, Washington, Teen Vandalism, Vandalism, High School, Washington State, Teenagers, Education News

Two teenagers charged with ransacking and vandalizing Snohomish High School in Everett, Wash. pleaded not guilty in juvenile court Thursday. The tw...

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Animal Shelter's AC Units Stolen, Pets In Peril

Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Cats, Pets, Air Conditioning, Pet Adoption, Air Conditioning Vandalism, Vandalism, Animal Shelters, Theft, Furry Friends, Dogs, Animal Adoption Centers, Chicago News

Some 100 orphaned cats and dogs living in a Chicago animal welfare center are in danger heading into the expected-to-be-hot weekend after vandals eith...

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Roger Gastman On Graffiti, His New Book & MOCA's 'Art In The Streets'

WSJ | Dennis Nishi | Posted 07.26.2011

Read More: Roger Gastman, Art in the Streets, Moca, Street Art, Vandalism, Graffiti, Wsj, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Tagging, The History of American Graffiti, Arts News

Writer and former graffiti tagger Roger Gastman has turned his love of the spray arts into a lifelong career. At 19, he sold graffiti supplies, later ...

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The Real History Behind MOCA's Controversial Street Art Show

ARTINFO | Posted 07.15.2011

Read More: Art, Art in the Streets, MOCA Los Angeles, Artinfo, Graffiti, Graffiti-Art, Los Angeles, New York, Young Lords, Vandalism, Style Wars, Street Art, Gangs, Arts News

Los Angeles MOCA's blockbuster "Art in the Streets" show has churned out one controversy after another, from the uproar over the whitewashing of Blu's...

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PHOTOS: Street Artist Revok Arrested While Attempting To Leave US

Posted 06.25.2011

Read More: Jeffrey Deitch, Msk, Street Art, Vandalism, Slidepollajax, Graffiti, Lasd, La Around Town, Moca Art in the Streets, 2011 Moca Art in the Streets, Revok, Lapd, Los Angeles News

UPDATED -- Jason Williams, aka Revok, has just been sentenced to 180 days in jail for violating his probation on a previous misdemeanor charge. The LA...

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The Egyptian Museum: What Could Be Lost?

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hosni Mubarak, Egypt, Slidepollajax, Anti-Mubarak Protests, Egyptian Protests, Egypt Archaeology, King Tut @Y:World, Egyptian Museum, Vandalism, Egyptian Antiquities, World News

Some of the world's greatest antiquities were threatened when petrol bombs landed in the gardens of the famed Egyptian Museum, Reuters is reporting. ...

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Crude Campus Prank Costs School $30,000, Teen Vandal His Girlfriend (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Motor Oil, Florida, Riverview High School, Vandals, Vandalism, Vandal, Riverview High School Vandalism, Video, Education News

Artists of all types have long drawn inspiration from the human form. But two student "artists" at Riverview High School in Florida are in big trouble...

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Body STOLEN From Mausoleum

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: St. Charles Cemetery, St. Charles Cemetery Break-In, Body Stolen From Cemetery, Crime, Vandalism, Cemeteries, Body Stolen From Mausoleum, New York, New York News

EAST FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — Thieves vandalized mausoleums at a Catholic cemetery on Long Island and stole a woman's remains during an overnight break-i...

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Fort Collins Park Vandalism: 19 Trees Mysteriously Destroyed

The Coloradoan | Trevor Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Trees, Fort Collins Colorado, Vandalism, Denver News

City foresters will begin work this morning to remove 19 trees that were destroyed or damaged Tuesday night at Spring Canyon Community Park in southwe...

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