Park officials seek info on vandalism to Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
On Friday, March 20, Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) law enforcement rangers discovered an act of vandalism at the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. The Seashore has launched an investigation and seeks tips from the public to help catch those responsible for using an object to carve letters and other shapes into the lighthouse’s original bronze door.
A recent report of multiple people at the bronze door for an unusually long time has been received. Additional details are not available at this time.
Anyone with information that may help determine the individual(s), circumstances and events that led to this act of vandalism are asked to contact the National Park Service’s Investigative Services Branch (ISB) or the Dare County Community Crime Line.
ISB Tip Line: 888-653-0009 or submit a tip at www.nps.gov/isb.
Dare County Community Crime Line: https://darecommunitycrimeline.org/tips
This happens about every 6 months. Cameras cost like $20 and video storage is free. Can the NPS not set up cameras to monitor something as important as the Cape Hatteras lighthouse? That’s a damn shame.
Oh, and if you’ve done this I want you caught and jailed for 5 years. And fined the cost to repair it.
Easy there… some kid carved their initials into a brass door that requires about 6 minutes of polishing to fix, not the end of the world. Certainly not warranting 5 years in jail.
As a community we have bigger problems, like preventing realty companies from overbooking vacations, completely overwhelming our infrastructure rendering it useless. Or perhaps tourists parking on the side of highway 12 in pea island getting stuck and becoming hazards as they try and dig themselves out as people are blowing by at 65+ mph.
Or my personal favorite, a group of lawyers who hold up any infrastructure project dare/currituck county plans under the guise of “environmentalism”, so they can extort tax payer dollars in the form of billable hours. See the 30 year Bonner bridge replacement project, or more currently the Mid Currituck bridge for evidence of that.