Perth Voice Interactive

IT’S happened again: blockheads have busted the giant Scrabble-like sculpture at Ellesmere Reserve in North Perth.

It’s the third time the artwork imag_ne by Emma Anna has been vandalised since its installation a few years back.

Sturdily reinforced since the last bout of idiocy, a hammer or something similar was taken to it on October 30.

Local grand-dad Bob Kucera says the timing’s just awful because on Halloween the local kids come out in their costumes to get their photos taken next to it. “It really is a lowlife thing to do especially the night before Halloween,” the former MP says. “There’s a lot of disappointed kids out there because of this.

“Our fear is that if this continues the council might remove it.”

After reporting the damage, Vincent deputy mayor Ros Harley came out pronto to survey the scene and the council’s assured Mr Kucera it’ll be fixed again.

In other parts of the world the eve before Halloween is known as “Devil’s Night” and is marked by mischief and mayhem. In Australia it’s called “Dickheads’ Night” where morons get drunk and smash stuff.

by DAVID BELL