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A reason I don't have any kinship with railfans is the sanctity they place on railroad equipment.  A 13 year old boy dies, and the railfans side with the box car he was spray-painting. Some time ago I was involved in a program for youth from tough neighborhoods.  I got to know some kids from Compton, CA, very well who had been involved in things far more serious than playing with spray paint.  I have to admit, what shocked me after I got there was the realization that they were just people like me; fundamentally kind, good, intelligent, humane people - maybe moreso than the jerks I knew in college. I rode an open box car cross country when I was 18.  I suppose if I had died the railfans would have said, "he deserved it - the criminal." Everyone deserves a chance.  No one at the age of 13 deserves to die.
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