Idiotic and Craven Vandals in National Parks
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The photo appears to be a gang tag. It is appearing all over America.
A few years ago we caught a Latino Gang marking their territory on a large boulder in a National Park in Alabama. I have forgotten which gang.
Most restrooms are defaced with gang tags along the Interstates and major thoroughfares and even out of the way places. In the Smokies we watched parents give their kids markers to deface cabins and others using knives. Apparently the city people see all this graffeti. glorified as art on the TV and want their kids to make their mark.
There are many that just don't appreciate or respect that others are offended and their damage is to be repaired and paid for by someone else. Watched a bunch in the Smokies, kids and adults alike chase a mother bear and two cubs to exhaustion, in the fields. If they had cornered her she most likely would have hurt someone real bad.
All we can do is separate ourselves from these people. if we catch them doing it call a Ranger or whatever is appropriate without endangering yourself.
A few years ago we caught a Latino Gang marking their territory on a large boulder in a National Park in Alabama. I have forgotten which gang.
Most restrooms are defaced with gang tags along the Interstates and major thoroughfares and even out of the way places. In the Smokies we watched parents give their kids markers to deface cabins and others using knives. Apparently the city people see all this graffeti. glorified as art on the TV and want their kids to make their mark.
There are many that just don't appreciate or respect that others are offended and their damage is to be repaired and paid for by someone else. Watched a bunch in the Smokies, kids and adults alike chase a mother bear and two cubs to exhaustion, in the fields. If they had cornered her she most likely would have hurt someone real bad.
All we can do is separate ourselves from these people. if we catch them doing it call a Ranger or whatever is appropriate without endangering yourself.
