Community service for barrel artist

The North Carolina man who illegally took construction barrels and turned them into the Barrel Monster sculpture was sentenced Tuesday to community service.

Joseph Carnevale, 21, a North Carolina State University student, was sentenced to 50 hours of community service for misdemeanor larceny and damage to property charges, the Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer reported Tuesday.

Carnevale, who was charged after he took barrels from a construction site and turned them into the Barrel Monster sculpture, which was displayed for a few hours at the side of a road March 31.

The artist, who said he will likely spend his community service hours with Habitat for Humanity, said he would like to make more barrel monsters, but from now on he will buy his own barrels instead of taking them from road sites.