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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by MP57313 [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by joeyalone Wishing for somebody else's death...Now there's something I like to hear a grown man saying. [/quote] Not so much wishing. It's more a matter of risk. If you do something risky, with no real "value to society", that could cause your death, you have no one to blame but yourself. Taggers who get injured/killed on the trains they deface 'did it to themselves' by intentionally doing risky things. Misjudged when teh train would move? Oh well. Maybe if the coroner could list "Careless Stupidity" on the death certificate it might change things. [/quote] The risk to one's life here, however, is not painting graffiti so much as it is hanging around a train yard when you're not very knowledgeable about the workings of trains, or for that matter, you're not being very cautious and aware of your surroundings. This is a topic that so many of you feel rather passionate about, and that's why I keep bringing it up - not so much to speak on the behalf of some of the little wieners who do this (though some of their work does look rather nice), but rather to try and understand the vile hatred that this conjures up in some of you, especially when most people on this forum haven't the faintest bit of understanding as to why people do this, or the diversity of the type of people who do this, nor what motivates them. And to hear people praising the death of kids that do this - I'm sorry but it makes that person sound like a pr*ck. I'm not the biggest fan of graffiti, but then again I'm not too happy about freeways and wal-marts and tacky strip malls blighting my surroundings and visual environment either. But it seems just as pointless to me, for me to get so passionately angry about the existence of strip-malls and wal-marts and freeways (whose worth to society many people would contest and demean, just as you contest and demean the worth of graffiti art), as it does for you guys to so virulently hate graffiti on railroad cars. IT's around, live with it. GEt off your high horse. If graffiti is on somehow's house (rare) or storefront, that's another story, but I don't mind it so much on the railroad. Me personally, I'd much rather see some colorful and skillfully done graffiti lettering on a railroad car as opposed to just a bland and boring "GATX". Railroad emblems certainly aren't what they used to be. So please, stop whining and angrily preaching on your soapbox. You sound like a bunch of cranky five year olds.
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