Four young Iowa men were caught in the act of vandalizing the Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge Monday morning.

Police in Omaha and Council Bluffs were called to investigate just after 2 a.m. when witnesses spotted the four using poles broken off a sculpture near the new spray ground to break out lights along the walkway toward the Nebraska side of the span.

Police say the poles were then thrown into the river. The four continued across the bridge where Council Bluffs officers were waiting.

According to police reports, 20-year-old William Vogl of Neola (pictured) refused to answer questions and resisted arrest. He was tasered three times before officers could cuff him. He was booked into the Pottawattamie County Jail for interference with an officer, destruction of property and theft.

The others, 20-year-old Darrell Clingenpeel of Council Bluffs, 18-year-old Jacob Osborn of Neola and 17-year-old John Dea of Minden, were ticketed for destruction of property and theft.

A dollar amount for the damage has not yet been calculated.

"I think it's nice, we're looking forward to seeing the little border where it says Iowa and Nebraska,” says Diane Terry of Carter Lake. “We haven't seen that yet."

Terry and her two daughters like the idea of walking from one state to another, but don’t like the idea of vandalism. "I don't understand vandalism. I don't understand graffiti. It just kind of makes us angry when we see it and it's really bad when you see something like that."

"I think that vandalism is an indication of lack of self-respect and if you don't have self-respect for yourself then you're not going to have respect for anything else,” says Nathan Pierce of Omaha.

“If you don't have respect for anything else it's going to show in your actions. This is just an example of a person who has some inner problems."