SEATTLE (UPI) -- Seattle is spending $5,000 to restore a mural of animals near the Woodland Park Zoo after it was mistakenly covered with a layer of gray paint in May.

The 50-foot mural was painted over after a neighbor called police to complain about graffiti vandals putting their tags on it, The Seattle Times reported Tuesday.

Rick Sheridan, a spokesman for the city Department of Transportation, said the mural was created by a now-defunct art program for children in the 1990s. The city is looking for a group to take responsibility for the mural.

"We've all learned from this," said Jim Bennett, the zoo's community-relations manager. "The city's learned, we've learned and the neighbors have learned; and it's brought us together to hopefully get it

fixed, and hopefully this won't happen again."

hope they can preserve it

Maybe they should ask the judge's to assign the task of fixing this mural to people who get busted for graffitti.

Jenna

Hope they can fix it