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Teenage Tagger Tagged

One thing I hate about traveling...okay, wait. Stop the presses. I should change that.

The phrase "Stop the presses" should also be changed in this computer age.

My girlfriend would say "One thing you hate about traveling?" She complains, about me complaining, when I take trips. She asks, "Is that a Jewish thing?"

I think because I blend the worst qualities of Woody Allen (okay, not the "worst" when it comes to him), George on Seinfeld, and Larry David on Crub Your Enthusiasm. Traveling ends up being more trouble than it's worth.

But I don't put a hold on my newspaper, as I want to read the news I missed while I am away.

And, a few stories from the AP that appeared on the same page of the Union-Tribune, had me laughing.

One was an 88-year-old motorist that did what old people seem to do in cars. He mistook the accelerator for the brake. He turned a Redondo Beach restaurant into a drive-thru.

As he tried to park his Jaguar in the early afternoon, he instead injured five people, sending one boy thought a wall and an adjacent store.

And my friends keep telling me I'm crazy to want to pull the licenses from the old folks.

The best part was the ending of the story. It said the DMV is going to test the motorist to determine whether he should still be allowed to drive.

Really?!

Didn't gramps just fail the test? Or, do they need to go thru the motions, because if they just yank it, he'll sue.

Anyway, the story right next to it was about a car hitting a boy. In this case, you enjoy the collision.

You see, the teenager was tagging the center divider of a freeway near Riverside.

Now, I just had an interesting email exchange with someone that posted on one of my blogs previously. And her point was that kids make mistakes (this was in regards to "sexting"...where kids are sending nude photos of themselves to other people). She thought I was getting on my high horse, because I don't tolerate teenagers making mistakes. And really, it isn't that. I just think there should be punishment for those mistakes. The subject of the previous blog was kicked off the cheerleading squad. That seemed fair.

It was also fair what happened to this tagger.

He got hit by a car and was run over by several other vehicles.

And I couldn't be happier. I think society improves greatly by this loser being taken from the planet.

Now, that may sound harsh.

I remember being in the movie theatres when the Sean Penn/Duval movie "Colors" came out. Everyone cheered when Penn, as an angry cop, took the spray paint from a thug creating graffiti, and sprayed him in the eyes with his can of paint. Why in real life would we hate an act like that?

A friend (who I just went to see in New York), told me of gang members all going to see Colors in the theatre. When a bunch pulled up in one car (with loud music blaring from it), the guys cut in line. A few people said something, and words were exchanged. When the gangbangers stayed in line, bought their tickets and went in...a few guys from line went and did some damage to their vehicle. This was before every car had an alarm.

I once had an argument with a friend that thinks there's a lot of validity to street art. She claimed I was making to big a deal getting angry over taggers. And, I'll give you Banksy. He's done some interesting pieces.

But when you start tagging a business someone owns or works hard to maintain and run; or the street signs, which our tax dollars go to repair and repaint...I have very little tolerance.

Yes, I was a teenager once. And, none of the teenagers I knew tagged things.

And if we would've seen one of our friends doing that, we would've called him an idiot and told him to stop.

I don't buy the "kids being kids" argument when it relates to crime.

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One thing I hate about traveling...okay, wait. Stop the presses. I should change that.

The phrase "Stop the presses" should also be changed in this computer age.

My girlfriend would say "One thing you hate about traveling?" She complains, about me complaining, when I take trips. She asks, "Is that a Jewish thing?"

I think because I blend the worst qualities of Woody Allen (okay, not the "worst" when it comes to him), George on Seinfeld, and Larry David on Crub Your Enthusiasm. Traveling ends up being more trouble than it's worth.

But I don't put a hold on my newspaper, as I want to read the news I missed while I am away.

And, a few stories from the AP that appeared on the same page of the Union-Tribune, had me laughing.

One was an 88-year-old motorist that did what old people seem to do in cars. He mistook the accelerator for the brake. He turned a Redondo Beach restaurant into a drive-thru.

As he tried to park his Jaguar in the early afternoon, he instead injured five people, sending one boy thought a wall and an adjacent store.

And my friends keep telling me I'm crazy to want to pull the licenses from the old folks.

The best part was the ending of the story. It said the DMV is going to test the motorist to determine whether he should still be allowed to drive.

Really?!

Didn't gramps just fail the test? Or, do they need to go thru the motions, because if they just yank it, he'll sue.

Anyway, the story right next to it was about a car hitting a boy. In this case, you enjoy the collision.

You see, the teenager was tagging the center divider of a freeway near Riverside.

Now, I just had an interesting email exchange with someone that posted on one of my blogs previously. And her point was that kids make mistakes (this was in regards to "sexting"...where kids are sending nude photos of themselves to other people). She thought I was getting on my high horse, because I don't tolerate teenagers making mistakes. And really, it isn't that. I just think there should be punishment for those mistakes. The subject of the previous blog was kicked off the cheerleading squad. That seemed fair.

It was also fair what happened to this tagger.

He got hit by a car and was run over by several other vehicles.

And I couldn't be happier. I think society improves greatly by this loser being taken from the planet.

Now, that may sound harsh.

I remember being in the movie theatres when the Sean Penn/Duval movie "Colors" came out. Everyone cheered when Penn, as an angry cop, took the spray paint from a thug creating graffiti, and sprayed him in the eyes with his can of paint. Why in real life would we hate an act like that?

A friend (who I just went to see in New York), told me of gang members all going to see Colors in the theatre. When a bunch pulled up in one car (with loud music blaring from it), the guys cut in line. A few people said something, and words were exchanged. When the gangbangers stayed in line, bought their tickets and went in...a few guys from line went and did some damage to their vehicle. This was before every car had an alarm.

I once had an argument with a friend that thinks there's a lot of validity to street art. She claimed I was making to big a deal getting angry over taggers. And, I'll give you Banksy. He's done some interesting pieces.

But when you start tagging a business someone owns or works hard to maintain and run; or the street signs, which our tax dollars go to repair and repaint...I have very little tolerance.

Yes, I was a teenager once. And, none of the teenagers I knew tagged things.

And if we would've seen one of our friends doing that, we would've called him an idiot and told him to stop.

I don't buy the "kids being kids" argument when it relates to crime.

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