If you've been having a rough week, just be glad you're not George W. Bush. Or, at least be glad you're not his statue in downtown Rapid City.

A vehicle collided with the bronze likeness of the country's 43rd president Wednesday along St. Joseph Street. The wreck knocked Bush off his feet.

A city parks division crew had to be called in to scoop up the statue so it can be repaired.

"We had to go pick him off the street. Took four of us. You get some funny looks when you're packing a president downtown trying to get him loaded up. People wonder what's going on. The mounting hardware is tore up so we'll have to send him back to the sculptor and get him fixed back up so we can get him on the street downtown again," said Robert Raue with the Rapid City Parks Department.

The statue is resting on a trailer at the city shop where sculptor Jim Maher plans to pick him up Friday and take him to his studio in Spearfish to fix the damage. Maher's sculpture of President Harry S. Truman is already there having been damaged in an earlier accident.