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Young Tagger Killed in 60 Freeway Crash
NBC Los Angeles ^ | March 30, 2009 | NBC Los Angeles

Posted on 04/14/2009 10:52:40 PM PDT by NoRedTape

A 17-year-old boy was struck and killed by a vehicle while apparently tagging the center divider on the 60 Freeway near Hall Avenue early Saturday.

Blake Locko, 17, of Riverside, was struck in the carpool lane about 2:15 a.m. and thrown across the 5-foot-high center divider into the eastbound carpool lane, where he was struck by several vehicles, according to the California Highway Patrol....

The driver who first struck Locko was not expected to be cited in the death.

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


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News
KEYWORDS: darwinaward; oops; rundown; tagger
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To: NoRedTape

Dude.. I remember being that young and keeping my parents awake long into the night. I understand now. I have kids of my own.


21 posted on 04/15/2009 12:41:49 AM PDT by Ancient Drive (will)
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To: NoRedTape

You can tell that the author of this article has never had his personal property vandalized; otherwise, he wouldn’t refer to crime in such euphemistic terms like “tagging”.


22 posted on 04/15/2009 12:47:14 AM PDT by Lizavetta (Politicians: When they're not lying, they're stealing.)
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To: NoRedTape

Some of the other primates only have to pee to mark their territories. But maybe they are more advanced than this guy.


23 posted on 04/15/2009 12:47:35 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: NoRedTape


Another pawn. The Giant remains stoic.
24 posted on 04/15/2009 2:50:35 AM PDT by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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To: TheBattman

The state for not installing safety net,car company for not installins bumper air bags,government for not funding state....


25 posted on 04/15/2009 3:52:41 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: NoRedTape

Taggers everywhere will converge on the resulting red smear to memorialize their fallen comrade in multicolored hues of aerosol art work.

Even more gruesome film at 11....


26 posted on 04/15/2009 3:59:00 AM PDT by usmcobra (Your chances of dying in bed are reduced by getting out of it, but most people still die in bed)
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To: happygrl
I did some hair-curling stuff when I was young.

Same here...Apalling, stupid things like setting up a beach umbrella and lawn chairs in the runway threshold at a military airbase and sipping tonic with friends so we could admire the planes. The beach umbrella kept blowing away and police came.

So I muted my first impulsive comment about the tagger, and just shut up.

27 posted on 04/15/2009 4:00:49 AM PDT by Gorzaloon (Roark, Architect.)
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To: Gorzaloon
Apalling, stupid things like setting up a beach umbrella and lawn chairs in the runway threshold at a military airbase and sipping tonic with friends so we could admire the planes.

Lol, I was a military brat too, and there seems to be far more opportunity to do really outrageous stuff on a military base.

My lips are sealed.

28 posted on 04/15/2009 4:06:13 AM PDT by happygrl (It's time to Party like it's 1773.)
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To: Daaave

What a load of excuse-laden rubbish.

There are plenty of vandals with no physical problems whatsoever.

The City of Pittsburgh dropped a legal bomb on a couple of these punks. Needless to say the taggers and their parents were shocked at the severity of the sentences but everyone else was over the moon. Let’s hope it sends a message.


29 posted on 04/15/2009 4:08:32 AM PDT by relictele
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To: happygrl
"He was one of our top painters," said DeWayne Mason, who teaches art at Patriot High. "For a high school student, he was doing college-level painting."

What gives him the right to use public property as his 'canvas'? His 'personal demons' are no excuse. Good riddance.

30 posted on 04/15/2009 4:19:47 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Marie2

Good post.


31 posted on 04/15/2009 6:21:58 AM PDT by Huck ("He that lives on hope will die fasting"- Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac)
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To: happygrl
"He was one of our top painters," said DeWayne Mason, who teaches art at Patriot High. "For a high school student, he was doing college-level painting."

This sounds like a Woody Allen joke or something.

32 posted on 04/15/2009 6:23:34 AM PDT by Huck ("He that lives on hope will die fasting"- Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac)
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To: NoRedTape

Good. The death of a property defacer is a good thing. It is unfortunate that he will ever get to be President


33 posted on 04/15/2009 6:35:29 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . John Galt hell !...... where is Francisco dÂ’Anconia)
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To: dragnet2

“Tagger” sounds so sweet and innocent, though.


34 posted on 04/15/2009 6:38:45 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: NoRedTape
I'm sure his family is saddened but as someone who drives the L A freeways daily and has to look at that ugly crap, I'm not.
35 posted on 04/15/2009 7:09:57 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: Lizavetta
You can tell that the author of this article has never had his personal property vandalized; otherwise, he wouldn’t refer to crime in such euphemistic terms like “tagging”.

I grew up in southern CA and saw "tagging a lot". I always likened it to a dog pissing on a fire hydrant to mark his territory.

36 posted on 04/15/2009 7:17:37 AM PDT by dearolddad
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To: NoRedTape

Someone is going to have to explain tagging to me.


37 posted on 04/15/2009 7:23:21 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: Ditter

It’s a euphenism for spray-paint graffiti, trying to make them sound like it’s art of some sort. The way someone who does graffiti paints his name at the end of his work (like an artist would sign their painting) is referred to as his ‘tag’, hence the term ‘tagging’. Granted, occasionally people who are really good at it are paid to do installations on canvases, or hired to paint a mural on someone’s building, or tag a West Side Story set so it looks more authentic than it would if all the nerdy kids who built the set attempted to do it themselves, but by and large, ‘tagging’= vandalism.


38 posted on 04/15/2009 8:44:16 AM PDT by Hyzenthlay (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Hyzenthlay

Thanks, I got the impression that they were spray painting cars as they passed on the road.


39 posted on 04/15/2009 8:55:20 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: Ditter
"Someone is going to have to explain tagging to me."

It's the destructive 'marking' of boundaries for a certain group of punks. I used to help paint it out for the City of LA (Volunteer group)on many occasions. Taggers are relentless in their pursuit of nothingness. They are vandals.

Where were the parents of this teen at 2am?

40 posted on 04/15/2009 8:04:59 PM PDT by NoRedTape
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