Posted on 06/07/2006 1:39:59 PM PDT by Coleus
St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers was vandalized and police believed the crime was linked to Tuesday’s date: 6-6-06. The graffiti on the steps and pillars of the seminary are extensive. A pentagram, upside-down crosses, and a quote from the John Milton classic "Paradise Lost" - "better to reign in hell than serve in heaven" – were all painted in black paint. The seminary was also defaced with the words "reign in blood" and the number 6-6-6.
“My immediate reaction was sadness,” Msgr. Peter Finn said. He believed the criminal was in serious need of counseling. “I would guess, I would think, somebody you know, thought a great deal of 6-6-6, and perhaps were reading about the re-release or the release of the updated version of The Omen, and what happened then I don’t know. It’s just a guess,” Finn said. The correct spelling of the word “reign” led Finn to rule out the possibility that those responsible were young. “Having been a high school teacher for many years, the odds of most teenagers spelling ‘reign’ other than ‘R-A-I-N’ are pretty slim.”
Yonkers police believe the vandalism took place between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. Wednesday, because the paint smelled fresh when a maintenance crew arrived.
Good catch. That one was particularly sloppy. Then again, maybe the odds really were high school teachers for many years. :)
WARNING! DANGER, WILL ROBINSON!
Goo-Gone will also remove the wax from your car. Be sure to follow the goo-gone with a good coat of turtle wax.
Thanks! My daughter and her friend across the street spraypainted their siding the other day. Only about an arm's-length section, but if Goo-gone will take it off, it's better than trying to paint over it.
Not sure what type siding you're talking about (painted wood, vinyl, aluminum, ???) but I STRONGLY recommend trying an inconspicuous spot first, to see how the siding itself reacts to the goo-gone.
I'm not sure - it's by the garage door. I'll wander over there later and see what a small amount does!
Unless there is evidence that these acts are committed by adults who have a serious agenda (and there almost never is), I think it's best to ignore them. Stupid kids have figured out that this sort of thing (666, swastikas, whatever) is an easy way to get their hijinks sprawled all over the print, TV, and internet news. In the vast majority of cases, the perps are just stupid kids whose ONLY agenda is to get a thrill out of doing something that there's a big social taboo against and then watching hordes of adults, including high profile politicians and news anchors, pulling their hair out over it. Giving them what they want just motivates them to do more of it.
Some years back there was an incident on Long Island of a "cross-burning" on the front yard of a black family in a predominantly white neighborhood. The media went nuts, splashing the story across the front pages of newspapers, leading the evening TV news with it accompanied by file footage of huge burning crosses, alluding to lynchings in the Old South, etc. Finally I saw the father of the family interviewed. He was perfectly calm and unruffled, said he thought everybody was making way too big a deal over it, that he was sure it was just some bored kids, and mentioned that the "cross" was a just little thing that appeared to made out of a broken yardstick. The interviewer kept trying to bait him with questions like "Do you and your family feel afraid in your own home now?" "Nope", he wouldn't take the bait. He had the right idea: when stupid people do some stupid little thing to try to get a rise out of you, don't oblige them.
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