Hulk Smashed!

Holy vandals, Atlas Man: sculpture smashed to smithereens

A superhero statue on display in downtown Fredericton proved no match for vandals who smashed it into the ground this weekend.

Prince Edward Island artist Gerald Beaulieu spent weeks building the larger-than-life figure, a wood-based, clay-covered muscular man that resembles the '70s superhero Incredible Hulk.

Called Atlas Man, the statue appeared to be holding up the side of the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design in the city's historic Garrison District.

I didn't get to see the sculpture once it was completed, but it was being worked on the last time I was downtown.  I personally thought it looked more like the Thing than the Hulk, but it's still disappointing.  Then again, that is right in the middle of the drunken idiot zone, so it's not a complete surprise.

I may have to wander down sometime this week and see the rest of the exhibit though.