What is wrong with people?

washingtonpost.com: Pandas Defaced, Artists Devastated: "The attacks began almost as soon as the colorful panda sculptures took up their posts on street corners and city sidewalks.

Freedom -- a bronze-painted, teddy bear version of the statue atop the Capitol -- lost the eagle, Native American headdress and 13 stars that adorned her helmet, as well as the stars from her shield. Two colorful, prehistoric-looking birds were stolen from atop Cro-Magnon Panda. Ti-Bet Your Life, a Groucho Marx look-alike, was robbed of a pair of eyeglasses and the back part of a jacket.

At least seven of the 150 life-size statues produced for the PandaMania public art project have been vandalized since their unveiling last month, say officials with the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, which is running the program.

Three were defaced with graffiti. A security camera at the World Wildlife Fund headquarters in Foggy Bottom captured a young man, beer in hand, prying a piece off the For a Living Planet panda at 2 a.m. one Saturday.

'It's a shame,' said Tony Gittens, executive director of the arts commission. 'It's people who don't have very good intentions.'"