Most people respect the environment, but others do not.
June 30, 2002
Haul Out Your Unburnable Litter: Why people should take their unburnables out with them and not leave trash on state land.
Littering: Where litter comes from, how to deal with it, and moral implications of littering.
This State Land is Closed: Misuse of land is leading to more restrictons.
Vandalizing Public Property: People destroying our commons never has made much sense.
I see some idiots (probably kids), have spray painted up some of the rocks at Partridge Run. As you can guess, too I'm not particularly happy. I like the rocks their natural color.
I guess you say that the paint doesn't do any harm, besides making the area a bit more visually ugly. It's not like the environment is effected by having some brightly color rocks. But it's so ugly.
Spray painting rocks is what you expect in the intercity, not out in the country, in the woods. Probably some idiots got drunk up there, and decided it would be cool to leave a footprint.
Maybe the state will clean it up. It really only is a bunch of white paint on a big rock, and several rocks painted orange. I guess sand blasting is probably how they would have to clean it up (think expensive), or at least for the smaller rocks, they could be just turned over, and burried, and out of site (eventually the paint will wear off and breakdown).
But why should I and the 20 million other New Yorkers have to pay for such idiots? I know, I should stop complaining, and look at all those idiots we keep in jail at $70k a year, for having the baggy. I hope (but doubt) they get caught, pay for damages, and have to lots of community service to do (how about picking up lots of trash, that idiots--probably including themselves litter?)
Conservatives talk a lot about the lack of morality in the country. This may surpise you, but I strongly agree with them on this point. Or at least a sense of decency. If these kids had a sense of decency, respect for America and the State of New York, they wouldn't have done this.
Destroying public property is as bad, if not worst then working for the Taliban (after all, that's what they did to America—besides killing people). The World Trade Center Terrorist Attack destroyed a great public building.
How can you sleep at night, if your such an America hater? That's what I want to know. How dare you try to dare to destroy America. Have you no sense of decency?
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