article_snippet.sent: Last Week Tonight (pictured) Cover-up: By noon, employees of the New York City Parks Department arrived on the scene and covered the unsanctioned artwork with a blue tarp .
article_snippet.sent: By noon, New York City parks officials wrapped the bronze-colored bust with a blue tarp and yanked the bronze-colored bust from the pedestal.
article_snippet.sent: The block letters spelling Snowdon’s name below a brass eagle were also removed.
article_snippet.sent: Workers had to use a pulley to lower the illicit artwork to the ground and load onto a truck to haul a pulley away.
article_snippet.sent: Down Snowden goes: Workers had to use a pulley to lower the illicit artwork to the ground .
article_snippet.sent: Hauled away: the bronze-colored bust was taken to a local police precinct pending an investigation .
highlights_snippet.sent: Bust was accompanied by block letters spelling out 'SNOWDEN'
  Less than 10 hours after installation, parks workers swooped in and took down the statue .
  