--- title: Savannah, Georgia Police Look for Googly Eyes Statue Culprit description: The police in Savannah, Georgia are taking a seemingly playful prank played on a historical monument of a Revolutionary War hero seriously canonical: https://time.com/5425281/savannah-georgia-nathaniel-greene-statue-vandalism/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-10-15T21:31:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:55:27.951Z og:title: Police Take 'Googly Eyes' War Monument Prank Seriously og:description: Googly eyes are point of contention og:url: https://time.com/5425281/savannah-georgia-nathaniel-greene-statue-vandalism/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Police Take 'Googly Eyes' War Monument Prank Seriously twitter:description: Googly eyes are point of contention twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Police Are Taking This 'Googly Eye' War Monument Prank Very Seriously > Sponsored content. 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The controversy started when someone placed googly eyes on the eyes of a Johnson Square statue of Nathanael Greene, a Patriot general who fought with George Washington. According to a post on the city’s official [Facebook](http://time.com/5422546/facebook-removes-800-fake-news-accounts/) page, officials contend that although “it may look funny..harming our historic monuments and public property is no laughing matter, in fact, it’s a crime! We are hoping to find the person responsible.” In a [statement](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/vandalism-revolutionary-war-statue-googly-eyes-prompts-police-probe-n920211) on Monday, Savannah police spokesperson Keturah Greene (no relation to the Revolutionary War general) said that the issue could lead to future destructive behavior. “Honestly, it is a situation we need to look into because we don’t want people to go around defacing things,” Greene said “We don’t want it to get out of hand.” See the full Facebook post below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5425281/savannah-georgia-nathaniel-greene-statue-vandalism/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5425281/savannah-georgia-nathaniel-greene-statue-vandalism/"},"headline":"Police Are Taking This 'Googly Eye' War Monument Prank Very Seriously","datePublished":"2018-10-15T21:31:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:55:27.951Z","description":"Googly eyes are point of contention","url":"https://time.com/5425281/savannah-georgia-nathaniel-greene-statue-vandalism/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Bizarre"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5425281/savannah-georgia-nathaniel-greene-statue-vandalism/","name":"Police Are Taking This 'Googly Eye' War Monument Prank Very Seriously"}}]}] ```