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Posted by BaltACD on Wednesday, October 7, 2020 9:57 PM

Several years ago I saw a YouTube of a passenger train 'on the continent' getting 'tagged' by a group of taggers working in concert in less than two minutes - at a station stop with passengers boarding and getting off the train.

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Posted by Paul Milenkovic on Thursday, October 8, 2020 12:35 PM

tree68

 

 
Paul Milenkovic
Is this equipment spending more time in motion than railroad freight cars?

 

I would opine that is exactly the reason - trucking companies are quite concerned with keeping their assets in motion, and usually have people looking for the next load.  

One rarely sees a collection of semi-trailers in an "unguarded" state.  

And a company owner (or owner operator) has an incentive, and the ability. to keep his equipment clean.  If railroads or other car owners shopped a car every time it got tagged, a lot of cars would spend a significant amount of time in the shop.

 

 
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Do you see graffiti on railroad locomotives? 

 

Actually, yes.  Not at the same percentage as cars, but, yes.

 

 
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Why was it targeted for graffiti merely for being closed for an extended time -- it was a brand new building, the neighborhood it is in isn't the least bit "blighted", and it is surrounded by other, active, campus buildings.  Was this an initiation rite for someone to risk arrest spray painting this building? 

 

You may be closer to the truth there than you think.  If it wasn't the result of a challenge, it may have simply been an "in your face" thing that the boys will have a laugh babout over a drink at the Xth reunion.

During my HS senior year, some of my friends, unbeknownst to me, decided to tag the water tower (it was one of those cylindrical tanks) across the street, and in full view of my house.  Worse, they included "Class of....." - my class. My father, the police officer, was not amused.  Fortunately, I really didn't know who did it until some time later.

 

 

All of this are my subjective impressions, but I don't think the new Student Union got tagged by the Frat Boys. 

The impression I have is that the police were taking photos to determine which branch of which drug gang did this as a way of "marking out their territory."  The impression was based on "calligraphy" that was meaningless to me but perhaps meaningful to people in-the-know as to being a gang sign.  It wasn't just the police taking pictures but the part that they were taking pictures of.  It appeared that they were concerned that a new drug gang had moved into this college town about 80 miles from the nearest major metropolitan area.  A new drug gang could not only mean a new supply of drugs for people here to descend into drug addiction and the petty crime to support their habit but potentially violent confrontations with the existing people supplying drugs here.

All of this could be jumping to conclusions.  But on a "broken windows" mode of policing, for the police to investigate whether a new drug gang moved into the community was appropriate along with the U getting this cleaned up.  

If GM "killed the electric car", what am I doing standing next to an EV-1, a half a block from the WSOR tracks?

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Posted by tree68 on Thursday, October 8, 2020 1:13 PM

Paul Milenkovic
All of this are my subjective impressions, but I don't think the new Student Union got tagged by the Frat Boys. 

I have no reason to disagree with your conclusion.  It would be nice to think the local boys were the reason (ie, no underlying motive), but the drug angle is unfortunately all too possible.

Kinda like seeing a pair of sneakers tangled up on an overhead wire...

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