CCTV reveals clues to Boy With The Leaking Boot vandals' identities (Video)
POLICE are looking for a young man with a large tattoo on his shoulder and arm as part of an investigation into the destruction of the Boy With The Leaking Boot statue.
After watching the CCTV of two "drunken young men" jumping into the Princess Diana Of Wales memorial pond on Kingsway they have uncovered more clues to their identity.
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The larger man jumps in the pond and poses next to the statue.
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The slimmer man then jumps in and pushes the Leaking Boot boy statue over, to the amusement of the other man.
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The Leaking Boot statue has now been broken off.
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The larger man rips out the hoses of the fountains in the pond.
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The larger man has tattoos down his left arm.
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He continues to dive in the water and splash around naked for more than 8 minutes.
As reported, the statue was smashed for the second time in eight months just days before the Britain In Bloom judges come to the resort.
CCTV footage – which can be viewed in full below in order to help identify the culprits – shows one of the vandals strip off all his clothes and start swimming around in the pond while his friend took photographs.
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The one taking photographs then jumps in and pushes the boy over.
Before doing so he also uncovers what appears to be a large tattoo on his right arm and shoulder.
Cleethorpes In Bloom chairman Bob Callison said: "We are hopeful we will find him."
The incident sparked angry Grimsby Telegraph readers to visit the thisisgrimsby website and comment.
Smoker wrote: "They should be made to fully repay the cost of the damage that they did.
"It seems that the courts are scared to award damage costs against vandals – 100 hours community service is not the same thing as making them pay."
And jack_knife said: "When they are caught, as well as being made to pay the full cost of repair and installing the boy, they should be ordered to stand in their underpants in the middle of the pond on an hour in, half an hour out, between 9am and 5pm, for a full week."
Can you help?
If you know anything, contact Humberside Police by calling 101, quoting log 164 of 25 July 2012.
Comments
by jack_knife
Tuesday, July 31 2012, 3:57PM
“nogoarea,
According to to-days paper, the answer is "NO.
Perhaps they are "not local" and have staggered back to whence they came, - Yorkyland?”
by wiesh
Monday, July 30 2012, 10:40PM
“a2011 wrote: "Cut the boozing time by returning to 10.30pm closing and give the clubs an extra half hour. All day drinking has been a complete disaster and should be stopped and if we returned to sensible drinking close the fast food outlets early and then we'd have less of that rubbish to contend with as well."
Someones started a petition to do just that'
You can sign it here:
http://tinyurl.com/cp72al4”
by puevigi
Monday, July 30 2012, 7:17PM
“lovely bit of HI-DEF video there , you can barely make out they have a head let alone recognize their faces. the statue is only ever broken at night so why did they install a colour camera instead of a high-resolution b&w one which would work a lot better at night.
what a waste of money”
by nogoarea45
Monday, July 30 2012, 4:37PM
“Well, it's nearly a week, have the police arrested them yet??”
by Legoboy
Monday, July 30 2012, 12:21AM
“Scraping for stories again i see..... what a ****** up town.”
by p_rhana
Sunday, July 29 2012, 6:34PM
“Make an offer.”
by markus2011
Sunday, July 29 2012, 4:34PM
“the motto of this story is should NELC give him a job as a replacement or do u think he will be a total flop?
you the council taxpayers decide!!”
by markus2011
Sunday, July 29 2012, 4:31PM
“On pic one he looks as though he wants a full time job posing as a Leaking boy as i'm sure he would attract tourists from all over the world and he would look great sprayed in a luminous gold colour to attract the nightly party poopers. shame about his willy though as that the only thing that lets him down. lol”
by jack_knife
Sunday, July 29 2012, 1:20PM
“makeamark,
I suggested that the last time the 'boy' was vandalised. If it had been done then, we would not be reading about this now!
Greywolf, I've also suggested piranhas, on another thread on this subject, when someone suggested alligators.
sgbarker, I like the idea of dye in the water, indelible bright PURPLE, PINK or YELLOW?”
by grimoldie
Sunday, July 29 2012, 7:50AM
“"Forget all this telegraph nonsense and read the news above from around the world, i like the one about 9 campers in russia who had a very bad night ! More of these please ."
What and hope it will just go away, it might seem like a harmless prank to some but it's you and me that's picking up the repair bill don't you know.”