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Re: Graffitti on trains.

Von: NM (nik.morgan@mac.com) [Profil]
Datum: 11.07.2008 10:25
Message-ID: <7583acce-cce9-4bd0-b23b-ad5a0b2dda24@f36g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>
Newsgroup: uk.transport
On 11 jul, 08:26, "Dogpoop" <dogp...@hotpop.com> wrote:
> Heh, what a waste.  Coming home on the train yesterday and had a look
> around, almost empty, three carriage local train, and noticed all carriag
es
> were defaced with graffitti.  Looked further and the carriages were act
ually
> very dirty.  Not just soiled and littered but ingrained, deep-seated di
rt
> ....... and these are mostly new (I believe) for last year carriages.
>
> Makes you wonder what people get out of littering and graffitti, it's
> something I simply don't understand.  I've always been taught to bring
> anything that's waste home with me, whether it's an inconvenience for me 
to
> do so or not, so who litters?  who graffittis?  I always thought it w
as
> teenagers, but nope.  I observed a young mother casually feed her baby,
then
> drop the yogurt pot to the floor, followed closely by the napkin that wip
ed
> her kids face.  She wasn't amused when I picked it up and gave it her b
ack
> :)
>
> I also saw an older chap drop a fag end, a couple of thirty-somthing
> 'ladies' also smoking and dropping their fag ends.  They were complaini
ng at
> the noise the drunken teenagers were making, which, I guess, could also n
e
> called a kind of pollution, but at least the drunk teenagers took their
> empty cans with them in their Tesco plastic bag!  Not elegant or pleasa
nt,
> but at least not anti-social enough to litter the place up for others to
> sniff at.

Just yesterday I was having the same discussion with a train lover on
UK.Railway, he will not accept that trains are filthy, talk about rose
tinted specs.
>
> OK, so my Landrover isn't the height of elegance, but I don't have to wip
e
> my boots off when I get out of it.

Neither is mine but what crap there is in it is my crap (or more
precisly ér indoors's crap) and my choice to tolerate it or not.

NM



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