Look what the vermin have done

[daepp]

I watched several Boy Scouts erect this as part of an Eagle project on Thursday. It was a nice map of the trails on Mt. Rubidoux - he even went to the trouble to use a router to create the trails on the map. By Monday it was defaced.

This park/trail/mountain area has been visited by the public for 80 years. Donated to the city by a local humanitarian and the Union Pacific/Huntington. Over the years many brass (bronze?) plaques have been placed to recognize various people/events. Now they are being pried loose for their scrap value. Some of them were works of art.

This one was stolen and has been replaced with a simple stone inscription


Replacement - already grafittied

Original


This is what's left:


They are ruining what little niceness there is in this area. Is it a lack of punishment? Is it a lack of parenting? A lack of fear of diving retribution?[

[daepp]

Will these be next?

[daepp]

The city sent a crew up last month install missing nuts from this bridge. They had to tack-weld them on due to theft.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Pathetic, isn't it? How is this easier than a job for these scumbags?

[Neilk]

Incredible.

This past weekend a neighbor had a garage sale. What they didn't sell, they just placed on the curb for bulk garbage pickup. They left a bunch of electronics, keyboards and an old monitor. A couple drove up, woman got out of the car and proceeded to cut off ALL the cables with wire cutters, I assume to get the copper from the wires. Amazing to go through that effort for $1 worth of copper.

I wish the scrap yards would be more accountable for what they "recycle" or at least have a conscience and report seemingly valuable stuff to the police.

[speeder]

Sad...

[Rikao4]

what the world needs is more 'one armed taggers'

Rika

[notfarnow]

Originally Posted by Neilk

Incredible.

This past weekend a neighbor had a garage sale. What they didn't sell, they just placed on the curb for bulk garbage pickup. They left a bunch of electronics, keyboards and an old monitor. A couple drove up, woman got out of the car and proceeded to cut off ALL the cables with wire cutters, I assume to get the copper from the wires. Amazing to go through that effort for $1 worth of copper.

I wish the scrap yards would be more accountable for what they "recycle" or at least have a conscience and report seemingly valuable stuff to the police.

That doesn't bother me so much, if it was out to the curb as garbage and the "recyclers" didn't leave it as a huge mess. Spring cleanup is big business for some folks... You should see them fight over aluminum BBQ tops

Last year I was at the scrapyard one day and two young guys had several milk crates of copper wire -HEAVY duty stuff- that they were trying to unload.

"where did it come from?"
"Um, some guy sold it to us for $20"

yeah right

But those plaques... somewhere along the way, they are being bought by someone who knows what they are, and knows better. The scrap dealer that buys them is just as guilty of public mischief/vandalism as the guys who pried them off.

[tabs]

I thought this was going to be a Thread about the Democrats.

[Jims5543]

I was visiting Natural Bridge a few weeks ago.

The place was full of vandals look what this guy did!!!

[tabs]

Man is the only animal that *****s where he eats and sleeps.

[daepp]

Originally Posted by tabs

I thought this was going to be a Thread about the Democrats.

Tabby - you're one of a kind. Don't ever change!

[daepp]

From a local church:

[flashgordon13]

My son is an Eagle Scout and he built a bridge over a large stream on a hiking trail as his projeect. He came home the other day very upset and I asked what was bothering him. He and his girlfriend went hiking and he discovered that vandals had destroyed the bridge. I can't understand how these people do this kind of stuff. Does it give them a thrill or what??? It's truely sad.

[notfarnow]

Originally Posted by flashgordon13

I can't understand how these people do this kind of stuff. Does it give them a thrill or what??? It's truely sad.

Some people aren't raised with the skills and drive to create things. They never get the satisfaction of seeing something they made with their own hands... the only thing they can accomplish is undoing the work of others.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by flashgordon13

.... I can't understand how these people do this kind of stuff. Does it give them a thrill or what??? It's truely sad.

I knew of some kids back when I was a teenager that were into this type of stuff, "vandalism for the sake of vandalism", shoplifting, etc., and almost invariably it was someone from a fairly well-to-do family, with no reason in the world other than "they wanted to". I didn't understand it then and still don't

[RKC]

Man is the only animal that blushes.........Or needs to.

Mark Twain

[Porsche-O-Phile]

People today value nothing other than consumption.

Not property, not life, not other peoples' time, nothing. Only consumption.

Humans in large crowds/populations are at their stupidest/worst. One reason we need a good plague to wipe out about 90% of the human population. Then we'd be about right where we should be.

[gprsh924]

I can't understand that kind of vandalism either. I will admit that I did a lot of stupid stuff in high school. I still do actually. But everything we did and do has an element of humor to it. Like placing the lighted reindeer in people put in their yard at christmas into sex positions. Its funny. But simply destroying or defacing things, thats just lame.

Here is my favorite: Here is my favorite sign. But first a little background. On more than one occaison, my friends and I attempted to eat at Steak and Shake but were refused service because only 2 of the 4 of us were actually going to order something, the other guys were not hungry and simply wanted water. This is at like 10-11pm and there are literally 2 tables occupied at the whole restaurant. They have the policy because people used to go in there and hang out forever and never order any food, but I thought refusing 2 of 4 paying customers when the restaurant is basically empty was asinine. That was two summers ago...we made sure that the employees had a lot of extra work to do that summer. They had an advertisement on their sign for "New Bits & Pieces". We made sure that they had to change that sign back at least once a week for almost the entire summer, sometimes striking multiple times a night...we were never caught.

[SlowToady]

There is a huge BMW / Benz / Land Rover dealer back home. Apparently some guy decided it was worth it to head out there with a Sawzall and cut the catalytic converter off of ~200 brand new BMW and Benz cars. Sold them for $$$scrap$$$$ money.