Monument hit by drunk driver

[Conservator]

Drunk driver destroys historic marker for the Pennsylvania Reservation at Missionary Ridge.
If that wasn't bad enough, someone walks off with the bronze plaque.
Here are before and after it was hit pictures

 

[Lazy Bayou]

That's a real shame. The driver and the thief should be hung.

 

[Malingerer]

Same thing happened in Port Republic not that long ago.

 

[Nathanb1]

Are they sure it wasn't the same person just after the bronze plaque? Horsewhipping is too good for some people (and I call them that very loosely)

 

[Bonny Blue Flag]

Holy Cow! I echo Nate on this one.

--BBF

 

[Conservator]

The Chattanooga police did the report, but they didn't call the Park Rangers. The plaque was left and when the park found out(a few days later) the plaque was gone.

 

[chellers]

I am sooo weary of ineptitude.

 

[CMWinkler]

Sad.

 

[donna]

It is so sad. The folks who do this need to be punished, jail time and fines.

 

[suzenatale]

The Chattanooga police did the report, but they didn't call the Park Rangers. The plaque was left and when the park found out(a few days later) the plaque was gone.

Alert all the local scrap metal places.

 

[FrenchZouave]

Usually today, some folks like to post stuff on their FACEBOOK page unknowingly that they will get apprehended. If the drunk was caught at the scene in vehicle, he/she would be facing Federal DUI charges. Not a good thing..Does anyone know how old the monument WAS???

 

[csemo]

At least it wasn't a person, monuments can be rebuilt, lives cannot. Not that this isn't unfortunate however

 

[Conservator]

Alert all the local scrap metal places.

I did this morning

 

[UKMarkw]

unbelievable

 

[pamc153PA]

Are they sure it wasn't the same person just after the bronze plaque? Horsewhipping is too good for some people (and I call them that very loosely)

I had the same thought. Maybe what they could get for the bronze plaque (what is the going rate for bronze these days?) was worth any damage to the vehicle.

 

[101combatvet]

Idiots!

 

[Conservator]

Idiots!

Which ones? The driver, the thief or the Chattanooga police for not reporting it to the Park Rangers.......yea I agree....All of them!

 

[Seduzal]

What a waste of a historical monument.

Which ones? The driver, the thief or the Chattanooga police for not reporting it to the Park Rangers.......yea I agree....All of them!

......all of them!

 

[judi]

The thing that upsets me about these kind of things on the battlefield you hardly ever here of them being caught and punished. Seems they get away with it.

 

[Union_Buff]

I hope they catch whoever did this - it really p*sses me off when stuff like this happens