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Don't graffiti trains or in train tunnels. Take this as a warning to anyone who does. Worst part of my job is I had to check the train for damage when it got back to the depot. Not something you want to anytime let alone at 3:30am.

There is now an 18yr old died, a family that lost their kid, the train driver & guard effected as the accidentally killed someone, plus lots of other people alone the way. Whilst they where in the wrong; death isn't a suitable punishment for adolescent stupidity, unfortunately that's what happened.

Teen graffiti artist killed by train - Yahoo!7
 
The fact is that you can't hear a train coming. The only thing u will hear is like a wind gust.
This is a horrible thing to have happened I really feel sorry for the family and employees involved in this accident.
 
Im sorry to hear what you have to deal with in the morning but I disagree to say that this was anything more than natural selection not a matter of time for all graff artists. There are always idiots out there who will do stupid things in any environment. To say dont graffiti because of some minor dangers or because someone hurt or killed themselves somewhere is just like saying no1 should keep snakes because an idiot can be killed by them (thinking vens but people are really stupid) or dont sky dive or scubba dive etc...


I dont paint, i have no artistic talent but i do have friends who do. And i have high level of respect for people like banksy and alot of the other guys, i lost there website with photos. Anyone who wants to watch a really good movie should watch "exit through the gift shop". Its amazing and everyone would enjoy it.
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maingoe said:
Im sorry to hear what you have to deal with in the morning but I disagree to say that this was anything more than natural selection not a matter of time for all graff artists. There are always idiots out there who will do stupid things in any environment. To say dont graffiti because of some minor dangers or because someone hurt or killed themselves somewhere is just like saying no1 should keep snakes because an idiot can be killed by them (thinking vens but people are really stupid) or dont sky dive or scubba dive etc...


I dont paint, i have no artistic talent but i do have friends who do. And i have high level of respect for people like banksy and alot of the other guys, i lost there website with photos. Anyone who wants to watch a really good movie should watch "exit through the gift shop". Its amazing and everyone would enjoy it.
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So you compare a legal exercise of keeping herps, to downright vandalism and tresspass on city rail property/land.

Whilst I don't mind graffiti when done as a mural, they should get permission before doing so on walls and not tresspass
 
Dumb enough to do it.....too dumb to learn from it. Another flaw in the gene pool dispensed with.

There will be more.
 
maingoe said:
Im sorry to hear what you have to deal with in the morning but I disagree to say that this was anything more than natural selection not a matter of time for all graff artists. There are always idiots out there who will do stupid things in any environment. To say dont graffiti because of some minor dangers or because someone hurt or killed themselves somewhere is just like saying no1 should keep snakes because an idiot can be killed by them (thinking vens but people are really stupid) or dont sky dive or scubba dive etc...


I dont paint, i have no artistic talent but i do have friends who do. And i have high level of respect for people like banksy and alot of the other guys, i lost there website with photos. Anyone who wants to watch a really good movie should watch "exit through the gift shop". Its amazing and everyone would enjoy it.
banksy_clipstone_crop.jpg
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graffiti is stupid and idiotic
 
feel sorry for the driver and guard and all the other people involved, but as for him, a criminal who died committing a crime, how much sympathy can I have?
 
Well all these people saying I have no sympathy for the person. Consider this first. When the train came in it had been cleaned down (fire hose normally) but not well enough, it's not a pretty site to see large sections of steel bent from hitting the person. You can see where they hit as there was still flesh stuck on the front. Now does anyone deserve that, even if they where breaking the law. No they don't. It's happend and it can't be changed.
 
I feel some people are very closed minded. there is a very large difference between 'bombing (tagging for rep) and graffiti art' key word being art. the graffiti movement is about rebellion (sp?) against the government and freedom of speech. often younger kids dont understand this and take on the tagging and its easier than art a natural progression from tagging to art. I have mates who started as skallywags and now make a good living from art. I do feel for the train driver but its a very real part of the job that you will come across this as alot of people choose this way to take their own life. I think its rough for people to be saying that he is are dumb because younger people will always find a way to be stand outish, its human nature. This case he was just unlucky he will never grow out of that phase.
 
How can people say he deserved it ? A criminal who died doing a crime? Mate pull your head in. Just yesterday a guy got 23 yrs jail for raping a little girl. Now this in my eyes is the lowest of the low, pure filthy scum, and he gets to live ? But a young man tagging ( i cant stand people who vandalise and trespass on our railway system) deserved to die?
Nahhh mate, get your priorities right.
 
This young man who died was foolish, but it doesn't mean he deserved what he got. How many people here did foolish things at the same age and were lucky enough to get away with it? You might not have been graffitiing in train tunnels, but if you ever drove recklessly as a teenager - an all too common past-time among teens and young adults - you too might have ended up the same way.

I'm sorry you had to witness some of the aftermath, Abrnmal. Thanks for putting this out there. Hopefully it does some good.
 
I love the 'he got what he deserved, he was breaking the law' crew. Never sat on 62 in a 60 zone? 101 on the highway in a 100 zone? If you swerved to miss a dog, hit a pole and died, would you have deserved it?

Everyone has done something stupid at some point in their lives, unfortunately some people never live to learn from their mistakes. I'm pretty glad I have up until this point.
 
Exactly Renenet. I wonder if the people making some of these completely insensitive comments would say what they said here to the family and friends of the deceased? I've seen comments like this on just about every thread talking about somebody's death and I really don't understand the need for it. What is being a heartless prick supposed to achieve?
 
It is a shame young life was lost but I guess the only way you can look at it was that he knew what he was doing and the risks he was taking. The parents and train driver in particular would be shattered. I've heard of a few similar events in Brisbane though I think they were suicides rather than accidents.
 
We get suicides regularly (couple a month). The suicides are rarely broadcast on the news, it's only the accidents that make the news normally.
 
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