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He wanted to be the first to climb Wellington's Len Lye Water Whirler sculpture – but he ended up in the glass and hot water.
Hunter Laurie Browne Macdonald, 29, of Te Aro, pleaded guilty Friday for intentionally damaging the sculpture on October 8.
He had been on the waterfront and was riding on the sculpture to do some gymnastics moves.
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Wellington sculpture with Macdonald suspended.
The police chief, the police officer, Gary Hilsdon, said that he continued to climb up to the abutment and that he was hanging over the front door. water.
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The sculpture broke and it fell, during which Macdonald was injured.
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Hunter Macdonald was taken to hospital with an injury to his head and leg after breaking the $ 300,000 sculpture.
He told the police that he was hoping to climb to the end of the sculpture while trying to impress the crowd and show themselves.
He wanted to do it because he had never seen anyone do it before and wanted to be first.
Macdonald said that he did not know that he should not ride and that he saw no signs. He thought that would allow him to bear his weight.
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Hunter Laurie Browne Macdonald, the man who damaged the water sculpture of Len Lye, in court Friday.
Her lawyer, Carrie Parkin, has asked Ian Mill, Wellington District Court Judge, to defer the case to Macdonald until next year so that his sentence, a report of reparation and a meeting on restorative justice are taken into account.
The judge stated that he would not comment on Macdonald's remarks before the sentencing.
Macdonald must be sentenced in March.
The Water Whirler sculpture was worth $ 300,000. Last month, Evan Webb, director of the Len Lye Foundation, said he wanted to produce three new chopsticks because they were expensive to produce.
This should be settled next year.
Macdonald had publicly stated that he was "bored with my head" while walking down Wellington's waterfront when he came across the sculpture.
"I decided to stop to try some kind of gymnastics and acrobatics on the sculpture".
Historian Roger Horrocks, Lye's personal assistant during the last year of his life, stated that the artist would have been "deeply hurt by the idiocy" of the person who viewed it as a mere stepping stone – and not as a work of art.
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