This is a total shame!!!
Aug 1, 2014 10:02:30 #
I post this not for any artistic value but to illustrate what is a growing problem in our national parks.....graffiti! This is the inside of the Henry Whitehead cabin in Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. GSMNP has a huge problem right now with visitors defacing our valued public property and the historical structures located in the park. People who are ordinarily law-abiding citizens sometimes think nothing of committing a crime by defacing public property. It is so sad! :-( :-( :-(
Aug 1, 2014 10:10:43 #
I hear you!
I liken it to a male dog, got to piss on everything.
I think it would be good to put an open season on taggers. :twisted:
I liken it to a male dog, got to piss on everything.
I think it would be good to put an open season on taggers. :twisted:
Aug 1, 2014 10:23:50 #
I saw first hand in 1999, on a fly-in fishing trip to a pristine lake in Canada, the boorish behavior of taggers. They had scrawled their crud into 1,000 year old lichens on the large boulders, some weighing several tons, along the shore. You can't get away from it...
Aug 1, 2014 10:24:43 #
I say when you see this happen take you camera out and shoot them with it? Or you could volunteer as docent for free and see that it doesn't happen any more. The country is broke it can't afford Park Rangers!
Aug 1, 2014 10:29:13 #
Nothing you can do about other than shoot the bastards when you see them and give the trophies to the park services.
Aug 1, 2014 11:08:42 #
Rongnongno wrote:
Nothing you can do about other than shoot the bastards when you see them and give the trophies to the park services.
Agreed
Aug 1, 2014 21:43:15 #
Aug 2, 2014 09:48:15 #
RichardSM wrote:
I say when you see this happen take you camera out and shoot them with it? Or you could volunteer as docent for free and see that it doesn't happen any more. The country is broke it can't afford Park Rangers!
That's true, but we can afford to give away cell phones and to throw money at seemingly every other country in the world. I could go on, obviously, but . . . .
Aug 2, 2014 09:50:31 #
C.R.
Loc: United States of Confusion
jpintn wrote:
I post this not for any artistic value but to illu... (show quote)
if folks have no respect for themselves then expecting respect and common courtesy from them is absurd. we can only hope they don't breed
Aug 2, 2014 11:50:35 #
Mr.elwood1
Loc: Oregon City, Oregon
I recently read a quote that I think pertains here: "instead of leaving a better planet for our children, let's leave better children for our planet."
Aug 2, 2014 11:55:12 #
Mr.elwood1 wrote:
I recently read a quote that I think pertains here: "instead of leaving a better planet for our children, let's leave better children for our planet."
thats easy, give the kids reasonable slack.
When they exceed the limits, just tag them with the belt.
Works wonders.
Aug 2, 2014 12:41:01 #
The Native Americans scratched graffiti onto the rocks a thousand years ago. Now we call that Pre-Columbian art. Who knows what someone a thousand years from now will be calling this crap?
Aug 3, 2014 12:40:03 #
C.R. wrote:
if folks have no respect for themselves then expecting respect and common courtesy from them is absurd. we can only hope they don't breed
From my observation they tend to breed faster than the rest of us.
Aug 5, 2014 00:19:39 #
That is sad, jpintn! We we visited Bushkill Falls, we found grafitti on trees, benches, and just about anywhere "they" could find to do it! Very sad.
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