I'd be interested to read a followup in the spring, about where the GoFundMe money goes. Perhaps I am just cynical, but although it certainly could be senseless vandalism, it also checks the boxes for a "bust out", wherein a business is destroyed in order to obtain cash. Typically these are insurance schemes, but the GoFundMe angle provides the same result.

I hope the press attention causes the police to focus investigatory attention on it; I could imagine it simply being written off as a victimless property crime and swept under the rug, as so many things are.