Tagger, 42, Found Dead on Subway Tracks

nbc ny ^ | 7-5-2014

[Citizen Zed]

Police are investigating the death of a graffiti artist who was found dead next to the third rail in a Brooklyn subway station.

Police say Saturday Jason Wulf was found by MTA workers just after 9 p.m. Wednesday at a station on the R line in the borough's Sunset Park neighborhood.

The New York Post says the 42-year-old Queens man was known by the tag "DG" and had been leaving his mark on subway cars and buildings since the mid-1980s.

An online fundraising site has received $10,000 in donations to pay for funeral costs.

[lee martell]

I’ve known a lot of men, usually retired, who get carried away with trimming trees. I heard Mr. T, in real life was accused of this in his neighborhood. Maybe it’s part of a middle-aged crisis, where some guys try to control every single thing within sight, and the wife has long stopped playing that game to their satisfaction.

[gaijin]

I spent 20 years spray-painting "DG" because…….because I DID…!!

THIS is how I spent my life. Nice, huh…?

[JPG]

[Citizen Zed]

Like one of these in your mouth...

[Jim Noble]

600 volts @ 10,000 amps on the third rail.

Oops.

[Gay State Conservative]

"Artist"? Is that what vandals are called these days?? Absolutely NO sympathy from me.

[Ezekiel]

I am not familiar with the clothing brand but at 42, this DG character was way past the expiration date for a “defacing public property” stage of life.

Some poor soul had to use a squeegee to clean up DG.

[Starstruck]

Bummer. Normally the price of your art go up when you croak. When you paint buildings and train cars they are so hard to sell.

[GeronL]

42 years old and his identity was as a graffiti artist?

The infantilization of adults has run amuck

[Mmogamer]

He’s still at it at 42? Really...

[Slings and Arrows]

The New York Post says the 42-year-old Queens man was known by the tag "DG"

"Dead Guy?"

[Ezekiel]

"Dead Guy?"

Heh, or "Darwin Guy". He should have been thinking, "What's in a name?", especially one in quotes.

[SamAdams76]

I’ve known any number of elderly men who said, in effect, “I’m going to chainsaw up that entire oak tree this morning.”

Or more likely, shoveling the driveway. Every winter, I hear of older men dropping dead in their driveways on account of shoveling snow. In my younger days, I'd shed down to a T-shirt and knock out my driveway in one session in zero degree wind chill. Eventually, it would take me 2 or 3 sessions in hat, scarf and gloves. These days, I pay somebody to come plow and watch them from the window while I'm sipping my coffee.

Getting old sucks but because I didn't waste my life spray-painting graffiti on subway cars and brick walls, I have the money to pay somebody else to plow my driveway (and mow my lawn).

[IronJack]

Don’t I see “DG” on some of my son’s clothes?

That's "DC".

[Slings and Arrows]

He should have been thinking, you betcha.

[njslim]

Darwin Candidate...????

[Tax-chick]

Oh, thanks.

[NonValueAdded]

It’s not the voltage that gets you, it’s the amps.

How many amps are there?

Enough to push a train.

[COBOL2Java]

Is this the kind of leisure activity Nancy Pelosi waxed about so enthusiastically when talking about the newly unemployed?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Almost certainly.