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Meet The No-Talent Hack Who Is Defacing America’s National Parks With ACRYLIC PAINT
The Daily Caller ^ | 10/27/2014 | ERIC OWENS

Posted on 10/27/2014 12:57:31 PM PDT by TexasCajun

The National Park Service is investigating a woman who appears to have traveled from New York to several Western states in recent weeks in order to paint pointless, embarrassingly unsightly drivel all over a bunch of America’s most pristine and most iconic national parks.

The crap sketcher is Casey Nocket, Modern Hiker reports.

Nocket, 21, left her trail of twaddle in nearly a dozen federally-protected parks including Yosemite National Park, Rocky Mountain National Park, Crater Lake National Park, Joshua Tree National Park and Bryce Canyon National Park.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Outdoors; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: dumbliberal; graffiti; narcissist; nationalpark; nationalparks; parks; vandal; vandalism
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To: abishai

I found it by searching on the link name of the image ( click “save as”, then cancel. )

It’s at Natural Bridge, Va. and it’s G W not CW, thought to be George Washington, who did a survey there.


41 posted on 10/27/2014 3:26:03 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: TangoLimaSierra

From the samples above she ain’t no Banksy.


42 posted on 10/27/2014 3:49:49 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Brother Cracker

I purposely did not post that pic as it would constitute jury tampering!


43 posted on 10/27/2014 4:28:49 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: dennisw
She is on drugs or is just another spoiled entitled yoof of today. Probably both.

The obvious question is not answered or even asked...

How can this bimbo afford to travel all over the country to do "her thing?"

Taxpayer-supported (welfare)?
Sugar daddy?
What?

44 posted on 10/27/2014 4:35:11 PM PDT by publius911 (Formerly Publius6961)
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To: GraceG
Or if I take a picture in a park with my phone they will fine me....???

Why do I keep seeing this?
Is the NPS now the new Gestapo?
We have created a huge playground for useless entitled twits?

Can anyone provide links to this incredible new "rule?"

45 posted on 10/27/2014 4:37:23 PM PDT by publius911 (Formerly Publius6961)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
This is allowed but NPS rangers tell people that taking photos is NOT ok? Bizarro World, we have arrived!

Read the article. It's a felony and she will be charged.

46 posted on 10/27/2014 4:41:00 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
NPS rangers tell people that taking photos is NOT ok

Can you tell me more about that? I've taken photos at all the parks I have visited.

47 posted on 10/27/2014 4:45:03 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: TexasCajun

Funny, isn’t it, that when a modern human paints ugly crap on rocks, everybody gets upset about it, and they look for ways to clean the paint off the rocks.

But when “scholars” find ugly crap that was painted on rocks 20 thousand years ago by primitive humans, they declare it to be high art, they study it, write erudite articles about it, and put up barriers to prevent anyone from trying to clean the paint off the rocks.


48 posted on 10/27/2014 5:02:20 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: barefoot_hiker

Or/also a cupid stunt.


49 posted on 10/27/2014 5:24:08 PM PDT by 45semi (A police state is always preceded by a nanny state...)
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To: TexasCajun
I'm too angry to be let loose near this woman.

She should be forced to remove it all with a toothbrush-sized brass brush.

Leave No Trace.

I'm going to sleep on it before I announce the further penalty, because what I'm currently thinking isn't Christian or Scoutworthy.

50 posted on 10/27/2014 6:29:29 PM PDT by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred.)
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To: Straight Vermonter
Can you tell me more about that?

It was a story that appeared here on FR within the last 3 months. People have reported being harassed by Rangers who told them photography was not allowed in Nat'l Parks. I don't recall many details beyond that. A search on FR would probably bring up more.

51 posted on 10/27/2014 6:40:53 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are not inclined to commit crimes.)
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To: Scoutmaster
"Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it."

Teddy Roosevelt

52 posted on 10/27/2014 6:41:12 PM PDT by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred.)
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To: Straight Vermonter

From what I read professional photographers would now need to pull a permit(I believe it was around $1500) prior to taking pictures in National Parks. If caught without the permit a fine would ensue. I am not sure if this applies to your general vacationer taking snapshots.


53 posted on 10/27/2014 6:48:01 PM PDT by bubbacluck (America 180)
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To: Straight Vermonter

Here is a link.

http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2014/09/forest_service_says_media_need.html


54 posted on 10/27/2014 6:51:28 PM PDT by bubbacluck (America 180)
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To: TexasCajun
She leaves her marks everywhere....just another narcissistic exhibitionist


55 posted on 10/27/2014 6:57:24 PM PDT by caww
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
This is allowed but NPS rangers tell people that taking photos is NOT ok? Bizarro World, we have arrived!

Actually, what she's done is not allowed. Also, it's not the National Park Service with regard to the story on photography. It was the Forest Service. It was also with respect to commercial photography, not personal. Commercial photography has carried a fee for years on any public lands. The issue is making the press (covered under the First Amendment) pay fees for filming stories on Forest Service land.

Personal photography has never carried a fee on public lands.

56 posted on 10/27/2014 7:01:53 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: Fresh Wind

No one would give a crap about it if modern humans painted their own rocks, instead of rocks belonging to others.


57 posted on 10/27/2014 7:03:28 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: TexasCajun
“It’s art, not vandalism,” she insisted, according to the Post. “I am an artist.” She also compared her god-awful renderings to the work of Banksy, the English graffiti artist and political activist. And she claimed the mantle of feminism.


58 posted on 10/27/2014 7:05:42 PM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: Straight Vermonter
Can you tell me more about that? I've taken photos at all the parks I have visited.

Commercial filming and photography on public land (Park Service, Forest Service, BLM, Army Corps of Engineers, etc...) has carried a fee for decades, and companies or individuals who sell their photographs or films without having a permit can be fined. Personal filming and photography is perfectly fine, allowed, and even encouraged in many places.

This all stemmed from an improperly interpreted story from a couple of months ago regarding the Forest Service stating it will charge news agencies fees for doing stories (whistle-blower type, anyway) on public land (filming and/or photography), and that the fee was higher than the fine (think the fee was $1,500 and the fine only $1,000), even though this would clearly be covered under the First Amendment and freedom of the Press. People were misinterpreting then, and they still are today.

59 posted on 10/27/2014 7:10:22 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: publius911
She's attempted to back-peddle alot...Reddit got hold of all her stuff she was brazenly posting and flew with it...got the park rangers involved and it went from there...last report “she's supposedly cooperating with authorities”...but will see if it makes the news this is so.

It is a felony..and the fact her “art” isn't even good graffiti, more like a kids attempts at drawing, and the fact she gloated about it, went into areas not allowed and defaced significant areas...she could be in a heap of trouble.

She's certainly lacking in brains and artist ability...and appears to have an overinflated opinion of herself and her scribblings.

60 posted on 10/27/2014 7:27:57 PM PDT by caww
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