Posted on 08/21/2010 3:27:27 PM PDT by Spike Knotts
Wake Forest, N.C. — Some Wake Forest residents woke up Saturday to find their neighborhood spray painted with racial slurs and other graffiti. Police calls about the vandalism in the Carriage Run subdivision, off Ligon Mill Road, came in around 3:15 a.m. Racial slurs were spray painted in red on a stop sign and in the roadway of Coach Lantern Avenue and Kemble Drive. A house and car on Kemble Ridge Drive were also spray painted. Investigators said they don't believe that a specific person was targeted. No arrests have been made. Public Works crews were sent out to cover up the slurs and clean up the vandalism.
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I think it would be very interesting to have Mr. McKinney demonstrate his reach next to the graffiti.
Well, with the pic that you've given it should be easy to guesstimate... 
There is only one upslope in the darker paint. The high point at the ninth board seems to be at about his neck.
It has a 7” exposure.
9 panels at 7" = 63" (5.25')
9.5” for brick.
63" + 9.25 = 72.5" (6'...at the neck!)
At least 6'6" overall by your numbers.
(unless it's not a 7" exposure) (see neck to top of ear, avg 6")
No one. I meant NOBODY.
Nobody loves me,
Nobody cares,
Nobody picks me peaches and pears.
Nobody offers me candy and Cokes,
Nobody listens and laughs at me jokes.
Nobody helps when I get in a fight,
Nobody does all my homework at night.
Nobody misses me,
Nobody cries,
Nobody thinks I’m a wonderful guy.
So if you ask me who’s my best friend, in a whiz,
I’ll stand up and tell you that Nobody is.
But yesterday night I got quite a scare,
I woke up and Nobody just wasn’t there.
I called out and reached out for Nobody’s hand,
In the darkness where Nobody usually stands.
Then I poked through the house, in each cranny and nook,
But I found somebody each place that I looked.
I searched till I’m tired, and now with the dawn,
There’s no doubt about it-
Nobody’s gone!
-Shel Silverstein
Glad to see you two have narrowed it down to about 90% of the US POPULATION.
Follow the bouncing ball!
I don’t believe the gentleman in the picture, did this. Just because they are showing his house, doesn’t mean that is the only place this occurred.
I think some very young juvenile punks did this.
The area I live, every once in a while , in selected areas, there will be a whole street where tires are slashed.
I attribute it to the same type of adolescents, with nothing else to do on a hot summer night.
The only ‘message’ I got out of this was, “we’re bored, we found some spray paint, and we wanna do some crimes.”
Since no one lives in the stop sign, I would have to assume it highly unlikely the stop sign did it, itself, to be able to claim racism.
Also, the ARTICLE does not mention whether any of the other locations where vandalism occurred, were occupied by someone of the negro race.
I bet they weren't.
I think the reason Mr. McKinney was shown in the photo, was to correlate the CONCLUSION by the LOCAL media that it had something to do with racism.
(which they tried to link to an earlier case where someone left 'notes' (such as the one shown).
Methinks these are just young punks who are picking up the IDEA to do this from the stir caused by OBAMA and the MSM towards RACISM.
Frankly, most of us (may I assume) really don't care about skin color, but about behavior.
Racism was almost dead, but the DNC had to resurrect it to trump the FEMALE card (Hillary and Sarah Palin).
It could be worse ... it could have been sticky bombs or molotov cocktails ... thanks Obama for setting us back 50-100 years.
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