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That is so sad.
posted by
Amanda__
on June 23, 2013 at 12:52 PM
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how terrible when people are so desperate for money that they do something so terrible and then end up with nothing. What goes around comes around and it is known as Karma
posted by
Lanetay
on June 23, 2013 at 9:22 AM
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Statue
That is so sad they someone would be that so uncaring!
posted by
MsJudy
on June 22, 2013 at 6:51 PM
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Shameful I can not believe that anyone would destroy a work of art so thoughtlessly . :-( Its not gone though... It lives in the memories of those who like you, saw it and loved it. In a way art, in its physical form, is as we are...until it ceases to be... and the only inmortality exists both for art and us in the memories of those who love us... I am sorry for your loss Taps xoxoxo
posted by
Sinome
on June 22, 2013 at 3:29 PM
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TAPS
BThere’s big money in junk but that statue’s literally worth its weight in bronze love. BC-A, Bill’s R®st
posted by
BC-A
on June 22, 2013 at 1:19 PM
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I think it represented hurtful past memories that a group needed to remove it at any cost. What pleasures one often hurts another. Some hold on to past good or bad while some must let it go to enjoy the present and future.
posted by
Dr_JPT
on June 22, 2013 at 7:21 AM
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These are hard times...Very sad.
posted by
UtahJay
on June 21, 2013 at 10:54 PM
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posted by
Annicita
on June 21, 2013 at 2:30 PM
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What on earth has happened to our societies where such blatant greedy
vandalism can do something like this. I would like to...like to... introduce them all to Bubba that's what. This is a truly tragic loss, all the more so because women are so often forgotten in the history books.
posted by
Kabu
on June 21, 2013 at 1:29 PM
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TAPS
That just breaks my heart. It bothers me that people tear down crosses too. Thank you for posting this. 
posted by
Justi
on June 21, 2013 at 12:26 PM
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That is so sad that someone stole and destroyed a work of art. I hope those criminals get what they deserve.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on June 21, 2013 at 9:35 AM
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None of the words that came to mind as a reaction to this story
are printable. Nor is the punishment this crime merits. I would go totally medieval on their (derriers)... Lucky for them, I'm not in charge.
posted by
Pat_B
on June 21, 2013 at 7:26 AM
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There is maybe a chance that the original work was made with molds
that are still available. Or that it could simply be duplicated.
The first few weeks I was in college in Cleveland, Ohio, we all heard a loud boom in the night. Vandals had placed dynamite under the Rodin sculpture, The Thinker. They succeeded in blasting apart the lower part, the rock upon which The Thinker sits. The Cleveland Museum of Art, in front of which the bronze work sat, decided not to have it repaired as the essential elements were not damaged, and the exploded base was a social/political comment of the times, a memorial to stupidity and pointless destruction.
Rodin worked with molds, and cast several Thinkers. I don't know where the others are.
posted by
Ciel
on June 21, 2013 at 6:27 AM
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TAPS
Like Jimmy, I'm not surprised - virtually nothing surprises me any more. That doesn't change the fact that I'm utterly disgusted, and that this is my loss as well! When some piece of art is lost, we all lose, even though we may have never known it...
posted by
Nautikos
on June 21, 2013 at 6:26 AM
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I am glad they got nothing from it, after they trashed something that monumental as remembering pioneer women. I wonder if it could be duplicated. A jail sentence might be another nice profit from making it into scrap metal.
posted by
mariss9
on June 21, 2013 at 6:09 AM
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I hate to sound so hardened, but things like this don't really surprise me anymore. Some people have no sense of sentimentality anymore, or any appreciation of certain things. It's all about the almighty dollar. That's really a shame . . . 
posted by
JimmyA
on June 21, 2013 at 5:36 AM
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