Hey vandalizers, you suck!

I don’t often strongly dislike any one outright, but I just don’t get vandalizers. WTF is the point?? It’s stupid, people who vandalize are stupid. 

I live in a country where crime is rampant, people steal. People hijack cars. As much as I deplore violence and crime of any kind, I can still ‘get’ why they do it. They might be hungry, or poor, and desperate.

But vandalizers, why do they do it? Why ruin or desecrate something just for the hell of it? 

I live in a rich area, and there are a lot of rich, bored teenagers who have more money than brains or class. When my neighbour across the road was building his house, and the half completed house stood empty at night, these bratty teenagers would come past the house and break all the newly installed windows or write stupid stuff on the walls. Why? It pisses me off hugely. 

This morning I heard on the radio that some plonker had started a fire on Table Mountain, setting fire to 100 hectares of protected vegetation in the reserve. Why? Stupid dumb idiots. It really makes me so cross.

Stupid fuckers. You suck.

Comments

[kim]

I know what you mean. It is it is hard to understand the mentality of these people. I used to live in London and it amazed me how desperate it seems people are to leave their mark - in the form of grafitti everywhere it seems.

[Bee]

Haai. I also live in that rich area. But i don't have a car. Please help. Love cardboard sign Barbie. xxxx
Oh and yes we hate those vandalizers - don't mess with my mountain azzholes!

[mare_imbrium]

Maybe they haven't really advanced beyond toddlerhood. They say toddlers are like little scientists. They pour their drink out onto the floor because they want to see what will happen. Or dig in the dirt, or write crayon all over the walls. Maybe these people didn't get to do that enough as children and so now they need to break windows or spraypaint on the walls.

[Adi V.]

Add me to the list of people who become cross at vandalism.
Harmless construction site pranks* are fine with me, but actual destruction or permanent defacing really pisses me right the frell off. I won't even touch on the subject of arson lest I start howling with rage. GRRRRR.

Adi V.
*I used to sneak into half built houses in the middle of the night with a broom and sweep up. Then I would stamp the sub-flooring using some fairy footprint stamps and a silver ink pad. Totally harmless and nondestructive but guarantied to confound the construction workers the next morning.

[e]

Adi, how sweet! Sort of like the shoe elves, but different. That's a proper prank.

The little gits across the road from T and the Table Mountain fire are just wanton destruction.

[Boulder]

Hey Adi - you need another place to sneak into & tidy up, let me know!

Tertia, how sad that some idiot pyro thought blazing nature's beauty was a thrill to do. Fucker.

Too bad a thrill for them wasn't tossing their own body out of a plane. Without a chute....

[Lynnette]

I hate that kind of crap! I once had to listen to a bunch of punks in my Art Criticism class explain why they thought graffiti (on someone else's property) was "art." My conclusion, its only art when someone's garage door didn't have to die for it. Another bunch of kids TP'd my dad's and his elderly neighbor's trees a few weeks ago. Back in my day, kids only did this to their friend's houses, or at least houses with kids who could clean it up. I never did it at all. It was really sad to think of this old man trying to pull all of that TP down. I should have stayed to help. I'm horrible. Don't even get me started on forest fires deliberately set!

[Cyndy]

Wankers. I don't get it...

You know they'd not like it if it happened to them.

Whatever happened to the golden rule? Do onto others?

Wankers!

[Faith]

"Stupid fuckers. You suck."

Ditto, Tertia.

Faith
(Who's never vandalized anything, and can't see the point of it.)

[projgen]

Hate vandalism with a passion. I feel very sorry for the idiots who get a thrill out of vandalizing peoples' properties, because obviously they are missing something good in their lives and try to compensate for that by hurting others.

I've had tires slashed, my car keyed, murals I've worked on spray painted, sets I've helped build destroyed and recently a new apartment building near me that was almost completed was burned to the ground. An entire building of families, anticipating moving in a month or so, left in the cold.

Wankers, indeeed.

[Simonne]

Do you know what particular breed of vandals I REALLY despise? Taggers. I don't know if you have them there - they spray paint their 'tag' on whatever surface they feel like. Your fence, your letterbox, your HOUSE, whatever. Although, I must tell you a wee story about a vandal who was particularly (I thought) ingenious, and not at all destructive. He tagged his name in huge letters down a footpath just around the corner of our house BUT instead of the favoured spray paint, he used a water blaster! A year on, there his name is, in 2-3 foot high, perfectly formed letters down the footpath, and all it needs to get rid of it, is to run over it with a waterblaster. Easy peasy. No harm done. It just made me laugh. Not only that, but he spelt his name out very clearly. Gotta love it!

[Shauna]

Being among the lucky few Americans who have witnessed the beauty that is Table Mountain, I am sad to hear the news of this intentional destruction. My only consolation is this thought: there is a special place in hell reserved for those who fuck with Mother Nature.

[Shauna]

Oh, and vandalizers suck too. Seperate special place in hell for them, I say.

[Egg Donor]

Here's a timely link:

Las Vegas Mayor says Cut Off Thumbs of Graffiti Punks.

[karyn]

I, too, live in the better neighbourhood in my town. We live across fromthe park, and almost every night the teenagers congregate there and set of firworks and break bottles. Bored little, rich, self-entitled vandals.

And their parents have the audacity to suggest it's the lower income kids that are specifically coming to our neighbourhood to vandalize. Idiots.

[karyn]

Sorry about horrific spelling above. Clearly, I had a toddler climbing across my lap while I typed!