'Who did this?!': Someone put googly eyes on a historic Georgia statue. Police want answers.

[Demovictory9]

The query sent out by officials from Savannah, Ga., was indignant and urgent.

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“Who did this?!” the City of Savannah Government posted to its Facebook page Thursday.

“This” was an act illustrated by two photos: Somebody had placed “googly eyes” on a statue of Nathanael Greene, a Revolutionary War general buried in the city’s historic Johnson Square.

From afar, the craft-store stick-on eyes were barely visible. Up close, though, they rendered Greene’s monument almost comically alive.

Savannah officials seemed to acknowledge the effect, but they also try to nip public reaction to it in the bud.

“It may look funny but harming our historic monuments and public property is no laughing matter,” city officials wrote. “In fact, it’s a crime.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/10/13/who-did-this-someone-put-googly-eyes-historic-georgia-statue-police-want-answers/?utm_term=.d3fd44db2fc4

https://www.facebook.com/cityofsavannah/posts/10161094314505525

[dem4decades]

1. So they're worried about googly eyes but not voter suppression?

Glad they have their priorities in line.

[TheBlackAdder]

31. People who make statues looks like a Seth Green Robot Chicken character generally don't shoot back.

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[CatMor]

2. I know I shouldn't but it made me laugh.

[Loki Liesmith]

3. It absolutely should make you laugh.

It’s hilarious

[CatMor]

5. Yes it is hilarious and no harm was done to the statue.

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. Hmmm......we have Confederate statiues here still...

Hmmmmmmmmm.

[CatMor]

12. I hate to say it but wouldn't bother me if harm came to them.

[ailsagirl]

15. Me, too

But gallows humor

grim and ironic humor in a desperate or hopeless situation

[CatWoman]

18. hell

i'm STILL laughing

[Rhiannon12866]

33. Why not? If I ran across that I would have been in hysterics!

Unless the statue was permanently damaged, what's the harm? We need all the laughs we can get these days, they're too few and far between...

[cwydro]

4. I bet he's rolling in his grave laughing.

I would be!

[WePurrsevere]

6. LoL! The Faceschnook comments are awesome and funny as heck...

If there were damage, which there wasn't, I'd understand being upset but this reaction makes them just look petty and humorless.

[mercuryblues]

14. OMG. you arent kidding.

I am freaking dying here.

from their FB page:

Turns out that I'm nowhere near white enough to be outraged by this.

FACT: Googly Eyes are one of the leading causes to the decline of our ecosystem. Tens of dozens are left in unexpected places by vagrant vandals each year.

I always wanted to visit Savannah, but now that I see how unsafe it is, no thanks! I’ll consider it once they catch this psychopath. Is the FBI involved yet?

In the criminal justice system, statue based offenses are considered especially heinous. In Savannah,Ga, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Statue Unit. These are their stories .


Might I suggest a hashtag for this movement? #letmegooglythatforyou

It disturbs me that I’m missing two mint condition, extremely rare, 1733 googly eyes from my collection. #googlyeyesmatter

man stumbling away from the scene was heard saying "I liked beer. I still like beer. But I did not drink beer to the point of blacking out, and I never googlie-eye’d Nate.”

Just because I wrote googlie eyed on my calendar doesn’t mean I googlie eyed anyone. It’s a drinking game

and so many more.

https://www.facebook.com/cityofsavannah/posts/10161094314505525

[Demovictory9]

17. lol

[JHan]

40. ....

[DBoon]

7. What a great way to get people to pay attention to a historic figure!

How many people now know about Nathanael Greene because of this simple "enhancement" to his memorial

[2naSalit]

27. visual aids..nt

[littlemissmartypants]

30. .

[2naSalit]

34. It's amazing

how a simple aid like googly-eyes can advance greater interest in history!

[Docreed2003]

32. Who's to say ole Nat didn't have googlie eyes in real life?? Lol

[eppur_se_muova]

8. Hey, c'mon, it's Savannah !

Sort of like complaining about misbehaving in the French Quarter of NOLA.

[guillaumeb]

9. Trump just grabbed him by the ................

[JCMach1]

10. Funny AF and now everyone knows who Nathan Greene was... WIN/WIN/WIN

AND police won't be shooting any POC while the manhunt continues for the Googly Eye Bandit (it's SC, but may be a bit dark on the sarcasm scale)

[NurseJackie]

13. Kinda Monty Pythonesque-looking.

[rurallib]

16. looks like he has become "woke" to Trump and his Neo-Nazi compadres

[ThoughtCriminal]

19. In my community

I am secretly the Johnny Appleseed of "Googly Eyes".

But I wouldn't do it to a public monument.

[getagrip_already]

20. It may look funny, but...

It is actually funnier than hell. Really.

A perfect example of performance art. The only thing better would be a parrot on his shoulder,

[littlemissmartypants]

21. Dammit! I needed this laugh!

How dare you, government trying to interfere with my pursuit of happiness. Go googly or go home!

[elmac]

22. its a crime? fuck you city official

nothing is a crime when you have criminals running the country so I will say it again, fuck you.

[keithbvadu2]

23. We'll keep an eye out for the perps.

Maybe two.

[littlemissmartypants]

24. Sadly no one has updated wikipedia to include the

"New Look"

[7962]

25. Looks about like something I would've done back in high school; no damage just a prank

And it does look funny

[TreasonousBastard]

26. That's hilarious! Many years ago I added some body parts to statuary...

around town, and they just disappeared without any hysteria. (Except maybe laughter)

Greene (for whom, btw, Ft Greene in Brooklyn is named) was thrown out of his Quaker meeting for supporting the Revolution, but it turned out not such a bad thing he supported it. He proved to be one of Washington's ablest generals and was so valuable to freeing the South from British rule that they gave him a plantation to retire on. More than one, actually, and he sold a lot of land to help pay for supplies in the war.

Great guy, eh?

Too bad he owned slaves to run his retirement plantation. Quakers, of course, disowned him. Fighting in the war was bad enough, but slaves?

Googly eyes? Why not?

[Demovictory9]

39. The cops need to check the cameras at the nearest Michaels or Hobby Lobby

only places that sells packs of googly eyes.

[TreasonousBastard]

41. I get mine at the dollar store.

[Jake Stern]

28. They're right, it isn't funny

Those eyes make him look creepy as hell.

[2naSalit]

29. I don't know and I ain't tellin'! ...nt

[torius]

35. Use ya Googly finger!

Or let me Googly that for you...

[Hermit-The-Prog]

36. needs 1 on each earlobe

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

37. Oh get a sense of humor you snowflakes

[ProudLib72]

38. Now distribute a pair to all the Rs in Georgia

And make them wear them through the mid-terms so they are easily recognizable. The normal people will stay the hell away.

[Dennis Donovan]

42. Lighten up, Officer Francis...

I happen to love the eyes!

[muriel_volestrangler]

43. Is climbing over a railing onto what appears to be public property really a crime on Georgia?

"They didn't do any damage," she said.

She said authorities took a police report for trespass — as the vandal would've had to climb over a railing.

"It is a trespassing," she said. "It is technically a crime, so we are going to be looking at the [surveillance] cameras and seeing what comes of it."

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/georgia-savannah-statue-googly-eyes-vandal

The railing looks under 3 feet high on Google Street View - you can step over it.

Savannah must be so proud there have been no crimes with any consequences in the city recently, such as an unsolved theft, say, that they can spend police time looking at surveillance cameras for a person who stepped over a railing from public property onto public property.

[Donkees]

44. Caspar Babypants - Googly Eyes