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Vegasclimber10
Jan 10, 2011, 5:58 AM
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An update about the little bastard that decided to tag ancient rock art in RR - the feds have picked up the case.
http://www.lvrj.com/news/teenager-nicknamed-pee-wee-faces-federal-charges-in-tagging-113127244.html
(This post was edited by Vegasclimber10 on Jan 10, 2011, 6:08 AM)
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climbingtrash
Jan 10, 2011, 1:37 PM
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Vegasclimber10 wrote: An update about the little bastard that decided to tag ancient rock art in RR - the feds have picked up the case. http://www.lvrj.com/news/teenager-nicknamed-pee-wee-faces-federal-charges-in-tagging-113127244.html
Isn't strange that we protect one form of graffiti and punish another form? Not that I condone graffiti...but we are an odd society.
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dynosore
Jan 10, 2011, 1:51 PM
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climbingtrash wrote: Vegasclimber10 wrote: An update about the little bastard that decided to tag ancient rock art in RR - the feds have picked up the case. http://www.lvrj.com/news/teenager-nicknamed-pee-wee-faces-federal-charges-in-tagging-113127244.html Isn't strange that we protect one form of graffiti and punish another form? Not that I condone graffiti...but we are an odd society.
What's strange to me is our society's priorities. This guy should be punished no doubt...but the punishment he's looking at is ridiculous, compared to what people get for other crimes. I used to do foster care. One girl I took in had her nose broken by her dad. He got probation, despite my best efforts. What's worse, punching your 10 year old daughter in the face, or painting some rock that no one bothers to maintain anyways? If it were up to me, I'd give the painter a toothbrush and the abuser a short rope.
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climbingtrash
Jan 10, 2011, 2:06 PM
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dynosore wrote: climbingtrash wrote: Vegasclimber10 wrote: An update about the little bastard that decided to tag ancient rock art in RR - the feds have picked up the case. http://www.lvrj.com/news/teenager-nicknamed-pee-wee-faces-federal-charges-in-tagging-113127244.html Isn't strange that we protect one form of graffiti and punish another form? Not that I condone graffiti...but we are an odd society. What's strange to me is our society's priorities. This guy should be punished no doubt...but the punishment he's looking at is ridiculous, compared to what people get for other crimes. I used to do foster care. One girl I took in had her nose broken by her dad. He got probation, despite my best efforts. What's worse, punching your 10 year old daughter in the face, or painting some rock that no one bothers to maintain anyways? If it were up to me, I'd give the painter a toothbrush and the abuser a short rope.
Hear-hear.
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wiki
Jan 10, 2011, 9:38 PM
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He should definatley be punished but I bet in another 2000 years, society will be protecting HIS graffiti on rocks as historical art!
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bill413
Jan 11, 2011, 12:44 AM
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wiki wrote: He should definatley be punished but I bet in another 2000 years, society will be protecting HIS graffiti on rocks as historical art!
Yes, and all the more valuable for the persecution the artists have had to endure.
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climbingtrash
Jan 11, 2011, 12:48 AM
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wiki wrote: He should definatley be punished but I bet in another 2000 years, society will be protecting HIS graffiti on rocks as historical art!
Here in the states I believe once something becomes a hundred years old it becomes protected under the same Act that protects Native American petroglyphs. For example in Utah we have Mormon Pioneer names that were carved into the sandstone over a hundred years in Snow Canyon and those are protected just the same as the petroglyphs. I mean, yeah, the petroglyphs are cool and it would be nice if people wouldn't deface them but old graffiti, new graffiti...
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