Casino proprietor Derek Smitty Stevens is trying to bump come out who knocked over the Manneken Pis statue exterior the D Las Vegas Hotel and Casino. George Stevens estimated the damage at near $200,000.
On Thursday, Stevens tweeted a grainy surveillance picture showing about a dozen people dancing around the statute. Some were shooting cellphone videos.
At ace power point inwards the surveillance video, a somebody climbs up to the statue, then dances behindhand it and grabs it. Within seconds, the statue falls o'er backward. When it topples, the aggroup scatters.
Tried keeping this on the #DownLow as it’s an active investigation.
Why/Who would doh this my little adult male @MannekenPis_LV ?
He never did anything to anybody! He simply smiled & aimed to delight twenty-four hours and night..
@theDlasvegas @VitalVegas #DTLV pic.twitter.com/vqpzpBIwNd
— Derek Smitty Stevens (@DerekJStevens) September 23, 2021
The harm occurred well-nigh 2:30 am on Tues after the Life is Beautiful Music and Art Festival downtown.
Big Love for Little Fellow
Stevens told the Las Vegas Review-Journal the statue is at a hotel workshop undergoing repairs.
He said it doesn’t looking ilk the revelers were “maliciously” trying to damage the statue.
But son of a gun, they weakened him,” S. Smith Stevens said, adding “I love that small guy.”
The cost to restitute the statue will follow “a span century 1000 dollars, at least,” he told newsman John the Evangelist Katsilometes. Among other damage, the statute’s lapidate tie-up was destroyed, George Stevens said. He told the newsprint he is “deeply involved” with the constabulary inwards the investigation.
The statute at the Las Vegas property resembles the famous ane inward Brussels, dating to the 15th century. The statue in Kingdom of Belgium was used as a method of delivering imbibing H2O to the chapiter city, according to the Brussels Times. Popular lore has it that the boy was memorialized for saving Brussels from go off by urinating on a fuse connected to an volatile device. Others say a witch froze the boy permanently for urinating on her door.
Stevens owns the d Las Vegas and deuce other hotel-casinos on John C. Fremont Street, the Golden Gate and Circa Resort. The statute has been downtown since 2015.
Stolen Bust Recovered
Earlier this year, S. Smith Stevens was mired inward another investigation into a theft at unity of his properties.
In February, Sevens tweeted a video of himself explaining that a bust of casino groundbreaker Kirk Kerkorian was missing from a exhibit area at Circa Resort. The tear is 1 of several honoring Las Vegas gambling casino owners and developers at the resort’s Legacy Club.
Stevens said his surety staff, workings with surety from the Four Queens and John C. Fremont hotel-casinos inwards downtown Las Vegas, found the bout in a guest elbow room at the Four Queens.