Hollywood's vandal with a smile signs off

Sydney Morning Herald ^ | January 29 2007 | na

[tdscpa]

I Would not call 911. Where I live, the operator would ask me why I didn't have a gun and defend my own property.

If I were home at the time, I probably would not initially shoot at the driver. I would try to do maximum damage to his car tires and radiator. If he persisted or got aggressive, I would try to kill him. The world does not need more idiots that do stuff like this.

[DainBramage]

Your give gun owners a bad name dude. I know a 911 operator will not tell you to get your gun.

If they rammed your house then maybe if it was intentional, but otherwise youre over reacting and playing God.

[sig226]

At first glance, yes, but when he changed it to "Oil war," for Desert Storm, he made it obvious that he was a stupid little hippie brat. Even if he was intelligent and well informed, stupid remarks like that, in that context, make me believe that he was sitting near the sign and getting high when the sun came up.

[ActionNewsBill]

Have you ever suffered any vandalism?

Once again... this was NOT vandalism.

He simply covered up the sign with a different message.

Is there a difference to you between someone stealing and destroying your property? If so, why?

This guy did neither of those things, yet you irrationally wish the death penalty be applied for a harmless prank.

[tdscpa]

Are you a gun owner? If so, why? Some weird masturbation ritual?

I do not pretend to speak for all gun owners. If you think you are defending the right to own guns, I think you are ineffective.

You don't know my 911 operators. If you called, and they answered, they would ask if you are sure you have an emergency. If you said somebody was pulling a "prank" on you, they would hang up on you. 911 only gets you an ambulance and the coroner, or the volunteer fire department. If you don't own several fire extinguishers, the fire department will only ask if you saved any marshmallows and will share.

If someone rams my house, they have to be trying, very hard. If I want to defend my house, I may have to "overreact and play God" by Texas standards. I live in a very sparsely populated area. The county sheriff and his deputy (wife) and the chief of police do not have a "night shift". They are only "on call".

[tdscpa]

"park rangers removed the plastic sheeting before sunrise.

Beefed-up security kept Finegood from getting at the sign again, leaving some projects unrealized."

Those park rangers undoubtedly got up before dawn to clean up the damage and donated their time. And the "beefed up security" was probably performed free by the appropriate law-enforcement agency. I'm sure their union footed the bill for the night watch from before Halloween through April 1.

OK, I give up.

I will put up with the occasional "prankster". You let me know where I should send the "vandals" should they ask me for any easy targets for their malicious, expensive damage.

[ActionNewsBill]

You let me know where I should send the "vandals" should they ask me for any easy targets for their malicious, expensive damage.

You've already made it abundantly clear just exactly where you'd like to send them.

Good luck with your defense when you go to trial for murder.

[DainBramage]

You are the the epitome of a whack job of this site. You talk like an irrational uneducated nutjob. Prisons are filled with those just like you.

[Mr.Unique]

Where I live, the operator would ask me why I didn't have a gun and defend my own property.

Sure they would.

[soccermom]

I don't care about this particular individual one way or the other. But I think his point was, the guy didn't destroy property. He very cleverly and carefully made changes without doing anything to the property itself -- no paint, no cutting. He put fabric in front of it so that, from a distance, it looked altered. IMO, that is no more vandalism than some of the "photo shopping done" to make jokes on the internet. I give the guy points for doing it in a non-destructive way.

[windcliff]

ping.