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Teen Caught On Camera Destroying Elaborate Sand Sculpture Inside Iconic Hawaiian Hotel

An elaborate Waikiki sand sculpture is protected by a partition inside the lobby of the famous Royal Hawaiian hotel.

The sculpture, the first of its kind to be exhibited at the five-star resort, is said to represent two keiki — or Hawaii's children — during Makahiki season, the ancient Hawaiian New Year festival. The artist completed the piece in mid-July 2019, then went back home to Florida. Just a couple of months later, the hotel flew him right back to Hawaii to repair some unexpected damage.

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In August 2019, a teenage girl was captured on surveillance camera climbing over the partition that kept the sculpture safe from public harm. In the clip here, you'll see her proceed to destroy and deface the beautiful sand sculpture with her bare hands, knocking off one of the figure's heads, ripping through facial features, digging into the sand, and even throwing random objects at it.

All that time and hard work was ruined in just a matter of seconds.

Once the damage was done, the vandal fled with another teenage girl who'd been recording the incident on her phone.

She left $1,500 in damages in her wake, and hotel staff strung several leis over the destruction before the artist returned to make his repairs.

It wasn't long after Honolulu police shared the footage that they were able to identify the girls in question.

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Hawaiian police hunt two tourists who were caught on surveillance camera destroying an intricate sand sculpture in the lobby of a five-star hotel during a night out

• A woman could be seen destroying a sand sculpture at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu at approximately 11.16pm on August 12

The woman can be seen swinging a pillow at the sculpture before climbing over and knocking down a sand woman's face

• Her friend films the spectacle while it is taking place
• Both women ran from the scene after the woman was done vandalizing the sculpture 
• Jill Harris, owner of Sansational, said that her partner - Thomas Koet - is in Hawaii and will be working on repairing the sculpture at the hotel 

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Published: 23:03 EDT, 15 August 2019 | Updated: 03:33 EDT, 16 August 2019

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Hawaii authorities are looking for two women who vandalized a sand sculpture in a hotel lobby before fleeing the scene. 

The incident occurred at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu on August 12 at approximately 11.16pm.

Video from the hotel shows two women approach the sculpture before one swings a pillow at it.   

A woman could be seen destroying a sand sculpture at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu at approximately 11.16pm 

Sand can be seen falling off the sculpture as the woman turns her sights to one of the heads and pulls it off. 

As she is destroying the art, her friend can be seen filming the spectacle on her cellphone. 

The clip shows the women fleeing from the scene and running through the hotel. 

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One is wearing black pants with a black halter top while the other sports a pair a jeans and a black top.

Both women appear to be in their late 20s or early 30s. 

Honolulu Police are looking for the women and shared videos from the hotel's surveillance cameras. 

Jill Harris, owner of Sansational, said that her partner - Thomas Koet - is in Hawaii and will be working on repairing the sculpture, KHON 2  reports. 

The clip shows the women fleeing from the scene and running through the hotel. One is wearing black pants with a black halter top while the other sports a pair a jeans and a black top

Jill Harris, owner of Sansational, said that her partner - Thomas Koet - is in Hawaii and will be working on the sculpture at the hotel

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Video catches teen vandal defacing sand sculpture at honolulu’s royal hawaiian hotel.

A sand sculpture in the lobby of Honolulu’s Grand Hawaiian Hotel was defaced earlier this week at the hands of a teenage vandal.

Video released Thursday by the Honolulu Police Department shows the vandal attacking the sculpture with her bare hands and various objects just after 11 p.m. Monday, as another person looks on — apparently capturing video of the destruction on her phone, according to police.

“Both females then fled in an unknown direction ,” police wrote in a Facebook post Thursday.

Police have identified a teen Hawaii resident as the suspect, but she was not named, HawaiiNewsNow reports.

Jill Harris, an owner of Sandsational Sand Sculptures , said her partner Thomas Koet is on the island and started fixing the damage Thursday, KHON2 reported. The damage has been covered up with a lei, according to the TV station.

“It’s amazing how much effort you know probably went into it and how little it took to destroy it,” visitor Jim Bruce said, according to KHON2.

The footage of the vandalism that police released shows the teen straddling a clear partition separating the sculpture from a walkway, using her bare hands and what appears to be a pillow to deface the art. She also throws other objects at the sculpture.

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Police are looking for a teen girl who they say was caught on camera defacing a sand sculpture in a luxury Hawaiian resort Monday night.

Surveillance video at the iconic Royal Hawaiian  hotel shows a girl climb over a barrier in front of the sculpture and knock off the head of one of the carved bodies. She then rips the nose off of another and claws at the sculpture.

After climbing down from the barrier, she throws a green pillow and another object at the sculpture. She leaves with another person, who was seen recording the incident on their phone.

The teen is a Hawaii resident, authorities said.

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Honolulu police searching for suspect who vandalized hotel sand sculpture

Honolulu police are searching for a woman who vandalized a sand sculpture at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel Monday evening, according to reports.

The vandal and another woman who recorded the crime on her phone were caught on hotel surveillance video, KHON reported.

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Second girl arrested in Waikiki sand sculpture vandalism case

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Honolulu police arrested a second juvenile suspect in connection with a sand sculpture vandalism case at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Waikiki.

Police arrested a 17-year-old girl Wednesday on suspicion of second-degree criminal property damage. A 15-year-old girl was also arrested Tuesday for the same offense.

Sgt. Chris Kim of CrimeStoppers Honolulu said the juveniles described as residents of Oahu were released pending further investigation.

CrimeStoppers and police sought the public’s help last week in identifying two suspects involving the vandalism that took place at the hotel on the night of Aug. 12.

Police released a surveillance video that showed an unknown female repeatedly striking the sculpture with a pillow.

She then climbed onto a protective barrier surrounding the artwork and defaced the sculpture with her hand while another female recorded the act on a cellular phone.

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Two Women Caught On Camera Ruining Sand Sculpture In Hotel Lobby

Hawaiian police are hunting down the two women.

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Two women are being looked for by Honolulu police after being caught on CCTV wrecking an elaborate sand sculpture in a hotel lobby.

Footage shows one woman climbing over a barrier and swinging a pillow at the structure while her friend films the incident, which took place in the entrance to the Royal Hawaiian Hotel.

The sculpture was vandalised on 12 August at about 11pm, with the woman who is intent on destroying the art then pulling the head off one of the people depicted in the sculpture.

The women, who appear to be in their late 20s or early 30s, are being searched for on the island - with Kohn2 reporting that the pair live there.

Visitors have noticed that leis - Hawaiian garlands - have been placed over the damage.

One man, named as Jim Bruce, said: "I had noticed that they put some leis where the head used to be. I thought that was a decent compromise, but it clearly doesn't look like it should."

Jill Harris, who co-owns Sandsational Sand Sculptures , told the news outlet that her partner Thomas Koet is in Hawaii and is in the process of repairing the sculpture.

"It's amazing how much effort you know probably went into it and how little it took to destroy it," said Bruce, a visitor.

People on social media are shocked at how thoughtless the girls were.

One person wrote in shock: "Seriously, what is wrong with people?"

Another said: "Unfortunately this is the society we live in. People think randomly doing ignorant, inconsiderate things is funny and cute. We need to go back to shooting people for foolishness."

Someone else, outraged at the act, said: "Well they will be caught for sure. I hope they spend time in jail. This is disgusting. People have no respect for other people, their time, their money, their work."

Another user posted: "It's so sad to destroy a beautiful piece of art like this."

Honolulu Police are looking for the women and shared videos from the hotel's surveillance cameras.

Hawaii News Now has reported that one of the minors who was captured on surveillance cameras vandalising a large sand sculpture at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel has been identified but not found.

According to reports, she is a Hawaii resident.

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Suspected teen accused in Waikiki sand sculpture vandalism arrested

HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) -Honolulu police have reported an arrest in the case of a vandalized sand sculpture in Waikiki.

Police say they’ve arrested a 15-year-old girl tied to the Aug. 12 incident that was caught on security cameras at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel around 11 p.m.

In the video, two girls were seen: One allegedly climbed over a barrier and repeatedly hit the work of art — the other recorded it on a cell phone.

The suspect arrested was not named because she is a minor.

Authorities said the teen was a Hawaii residents. She was booked for criminal property damage.

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Two teenage girls were taken into custody for a 2019 act of vandalism of a large sand sculpture display at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Waikiki, Hawaii .

Surveillance footage of the incident taken on August 12, 2019 at 11 p.m. showed two teenage girls at the display surrounded by a transparent barrier.

One of them was seen slamming the sculpture with a large cushion and eventually scaling the partition and knocking the head off of one of the figures while the other suspect filmed her.

The Honolulu Police Department confirmed a 15-year-old suspect was charged with criminal property damage.

Authorities also verified she was a Hawaii resident.

After the initial arrest, a second suspect, a 17-year-old, was taken into custody under suspicion of second-degree criminal property damage.

The names of the two teens involved were not disclosed since they were minors.

Here is a clip from the surveillance footage.

\u201cTeenage girls arrested for damaging sand sculpture at Royal Hawaiian Hotel\u201d — Crazy Clips (@Crazy Clips) 1686580200

The destroyed art display inside the hotel represented two keiki symbolizing Hawaii's children during the Makahiki season.

The outlet reported the act of destruction left an estimated $1,500 worth of damages.

Twitter was appalled.

\u201c@crazyclipsonly Part of the punishment should be to make them learn about #Indigenous #Hawaiian culture - since this work had cultural significance. Not that learning about that is punishment for others - but I\u2019m sure it would be for these vandals. Sad they\u2019re from there & have such disrespect.\u201d — Crazy Clips (@Crazy Clips) 1686580200

\u201c@crazyclipsonly I hope they learn their lesson because if not they will get worse as they get older and crimes bigger and charges more severe and sentencing stronger!\u201d — Crazy Clips (@Crazy Clips) 1686580200

\u201c@crazyclipsonly This is what happens when they lack parental discipline. I fully blame the parents . Disgusting behavior.\u201d — Crazy Clips (@Crazy Clips) 1686580200

\u201c@crazyclipsonly Good that they got charged they should also have to pay for the time of the artist's to come back and fix it and have to commity service for 5 years to teach then it is wrong to touch what is not there's\u201d — Crazy Clips (@Crazy Clips) 1686580200

\u201c@crazyclipsonly The girl acted viciously! What could have triggered a psychotic attack , I want to know . The other one tolerated her too. Clearly something prompted them not that I condone them and looking for reason behind their lack of respect!\u201d — Crazy Clips (@Crazy Clips) 1686580200

\u201c@crazyclipsonly Did they grow up in households devoid of any traces of love?\u201d — Crazy Clips (@Crazy Clips) 1686580200

\u201c@crazyclipsonly Idiots\u201d — Crazy Clips (@Crazy Clips) 1686580200

\u201c@crazyclipsonly What was the point of doing all that? Omg people suck\u201d — Crazy Clips (@Crazy Clips) 1686580200

\u201c@crazyclipsonly Tiktok and instagram should have policies to ban these kind of kids from creating accounts for 5-10 years because they do this for 5 min of fame. Set an example out of them\u201d — Crazy Clips (@Crazy Clips) 1686580200

Following the incident, hotel staff obscured the defaced art installation by adorning it with multiple leis as a symbolic gesture until an artist could return to fix the damage.

The sand sculpture was created in mid-July 2019 by Sandsational Sand Sculptures–a Florida-based artist collective.

One of the artists from the group, Thomas Koet, returned to Hawaii to restore the sculpture to its original state.

\u201cThe artist quickly came back and restored his work https://t.co/GoSmsNMC8b\u201d — Crazy Clips (@Crazy Clips) 1686580200

Before the sand sculpture was restored, a visitor named Bruce shared his observations on the ruined display.

He told KHON2:

“I had noticed that they put some leis where the head used to be. I thought that was a decent compromise, but it clearly doesn’t look like it should."

“It’s amazing how much effort you know probably went into it and how little it took to destroy it."

Fresher Live noted the collaborative effort of authorities and hotel staff to temporarily fix the damage served as a reminder of the importance of preserving cherished cultural works of art.

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Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik wins gold medal at Moscow championship

Renowned artist Sudarsan Pattnaik has won the gold medal at ninth Moscow Sand Sculpture Championship "The magical world of sand" 2016.

Pattnaik won the competition for his 15 feet high art work "Mahatma Gandhi's sculpture for non-violence and peace".

"I am very happy to have won the title for my country. The director of sand art festival PaveI Minilkov presented the gold medal and the trophy at the ceremony today. I have tried to show through my sculpture how Gandhiji's non-violence concept will bring global peace around the world," Pattnaik said on winning the Gold medal.

After winning the award, Pattnaik called on India's ambassador in Russia Pankaj Saran, who congratulated him on his accomplishment.

20 top sculptors from different countries competed at the championship, which was held from April 21 to 27 at Kolomenskoye in Moscow.

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Indian Sand Artist Sudarshan Pattnaik Bags Gold Medal At Moscow Championship

28 april 2016 10:57 am gmt, editor : the logical indian.

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Renowned Indian sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik was awarded with gold medal at the ninth Moscow Sand Sculpture Championship “The magical world of sand” 2016. Pattnaik bagged the award for best composition, for his 15 feet high art work “Mahatma Gandhi’s sculpture for nonviolence and peace”.

The competition was held at Kolomenskoye in Moscow from April 21 to 27, where 20 best sculptors from different countries competed for the championship. This is not his first though. He has participated in more than 50 national and international sand sculpture championships and has won many accolades. Pattnaik is also won the Padma Shri in 2014, which is the fourth highest civilian award in the country.

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The Logical Indian congratulates Mr Pattnaik for his achievement.

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Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik wins gold medal at Moscow championship