Death to Taggers!
Snipers.
“Death to Taggers!”
Amen to that. Such graffiti tags are showing up all along I-90 in Spokane, WA. Until a couple years ago, all the freeways and bridges were completely free of the scourge. Now it is popping up on sound walls, retaining walls, overpasses, railroad bridges.
A tag showed up on the dumpster at our local lake in North Idaho. I called the garbage company and talked to some guy. He said “It’s just kids.” He was unbelievably naive about this and wouldn’t believe it would be gang related.
I left California partly because of this crap. It starts with a few tags and pretty soon the bums have taken over all your city parks and they are full of needles. I saw this in small towns on the San Francisco Peninsula where the towns just ceded the city parks to the bums.
What a shame it is hitting the National Parks. They were our last refuge.
No. Too quick.
Apply the law: 6 months in jail and a $5K fine. Arrest them on the spot and chopper them out. Immediate prosecution under expedited procedures. Let them serve the six months cleaning the rocks.
Ah, living and working 24/7/180 in Zion National Park in winter’s cold or summer’s heat. Let the fines partially offset the cost of the incarceration (in tents and barbed wire stockades to contain costs, of course).
Yep, 6 months in the can, pay fines, lose job, miss school, and get a record. The frosting on the cake would be the rogues gallery of offenders serving time posted at the park entrance, visitor center, picnic grounds, and the trailheads.