The Indignity Of Thomas Waghorn

I noticed this statue on the way to Festival at the Fort a couple of days ago.
It stands in a small square on the way into Chatham and depicts Thomas Waghorn (born in Chatham in 1800), an English sailor, navy officer and postal pioneer who promoted and claimed the idea of a new route from Great Britain to India overland through Egypt prior to the development of the Suez Canal.
I must admit this is not the reason I took this picture - it's because someone with a certain degree of athletic ability has managed to climb his statue, it must be a good 20 feet tall including the plinth, and place a traffic cone on his head and a road sign over his right shoulder! A bit of an indignity for the poor old chap!