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   From: felcher.adam.schiff@sacbee.com   
      
   PLYMOUTH, Mass. – “Why? Why? Why would someone do this?” Gayle   
   Manning asked as she looked down at vandalized Plymouth Rock on   
   Monday morning.   
      
   She was one of many who traveled to the Plymouth waterfront to   
   express disgust over the overnight damage to the landmark and   
   other waterfront monuments by vandals wielding cans of spray   
   paint.   
      
   Police Chief Michael Botieri said Plymouth Rock, the Pilgrim   
   Maiden statue, a memorial granite bench and at least four of the   
   Scallop Roll statues scattered about the waterfront by the   
   Plymouth Area Chamber of Commerce were tagged with paint.   
      
   Similar graffiti, including an obscene message aimed at police,   
   was found more than a mile away at the base of the state-owned   
   National Monument to the Forefathers.   
      
   Much of the Plymouth Rock graffiti was indecipherable smears of   
   paint, Botieri said, but several of the landmarks were tagged   
   with the numbers and letters 508 MOF.   
      
   Police detectives reviewed surveillance video from the area in   
   hopes of identifying the vandals, Botieri said. Police searched   
   along the rocky waterfront for discarded paint containers.   
      
   Vandals targeted the Pilgrim Maiden overnight Sunday.   
   Botieri said there does not appear to be any political   
   connection to the graffiti, but some who gathered at Plymouth   
   Rock on Monday morning wondered.   
      
   Manning noted that the graffiti occurred on Presidents Day and   
   in 2020, which is the 400th anniversary of the pilgrims landing   
   at Plymouth Rock.   
      
   Maintenance crews from the town and the state set to work Monday   
   cleaning up the graffiti with power washers and a solvent used   
   to clean previous vandalism.   
      
   https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/02/17/plymouth-   
   rock-vandalized-graffiti-pilgrim-maiden-statue-   
   damaged/4786255002/   
       
      
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