Animal rights nutjobs vandalize restaurant again

Posted by Stan Moore on April 14, 2009
WBAL TV

A Howard County restaurant vandalized three weeks ago because of an item on the menu was hit again.

However, this time the owners of the Iron Bridge Wine Company on Route 108 in Columbia, said the people responsible were caught on camera.

The owners said their restaurant was vandalized last time due to the controversial delicacy foie gras, or duck liver. They said they're fairly certain the people responsible for the first attack perpetrated the second.

"If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it's a duck," owner Steve Wecker said.

Two weeks ago the vandals broke windows, put glue into the locks and painted "get rid of foie gras" on walls.

The owners said the vandals struck again on Monday morning, breaking two more windows and tried to get in through a side door.

"If people think they're going to change our minds by sneaking around in the middle of the night and do childish things like bashing in our windows they're incorrect," Wecker said.

Wecker said his restaurant will not be threatened and his employees are even making light of the situation, wearing "got foie gras" T-shirts and adding more duck liver items to the menu.

"Our suspicion is they're reacting to the fact that we didn't just knuckle under and say, 'OK, we'll stop serving it because you busted out our windows,'" Wecker said.

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Howard County police are looking into both vandalism incidents and haven't made any arrests.

Wecker said he was able to hand over surveillance video to the police.