Sweet Jesus! Holy statue busted by drunken man in Williamsburg
Third Time Not a Charm for Saints Peter and Paul Rectory
An apparently inebriated man broke a statue of Jesus outside of a Williamsburg church early Sunday morning and police would like to have a word with him and his two equally spiffed pals.
The “Sacred Heart of Jesus” statue was damaged outside of Saints Peter and Paul Rectory in Williamsburg. Video sent to the Brooklyn Eagle from the Diocese of Brooklyn shows the three goofballs approaching the statue after 4:30 a.m. on Sunday. A man appears to high-five the statue’s hand, leans over a fence and pulls the statue forward, clumsily kissing its forehead. After the statue tilts on its pedestal, he and his buddies, a man and a woman, run off.
It was the third time since 2012 that a “Sacred Heart of Jesus” statue at the rectory has been stolen or damaged, according to the Diocese of Brooklyn.