[PRCo] Re: Trolleyville

[Fred Schneider]

Excrement happens.  There is no reason to expect that museum cars will be
treated any better than cars on the street.  Cost of doing business.    It is a
world wide problem ... remember we exported the move American Graffitti.  You
see it all over Europe; particularly offensive in the U. K.    fws

ktjosephson at earthlink.net wrote:

> Fred Schneider wrote:
>
> > Running antiques on the street is a scary proposition.  I'm worried about
> the
> > Pittsburgh high floor  ... not about those CA&E hulks.
>
> I believe you have worn out your welcome in Chicago, Fred. ;-)
>
> Seriously, my concern is that a number of young people are so deeply
> entrenched in the "graffiti culture" that they will carve, paint and mark up
> the cars' interiors beyond recognition.
>
> I noticed modern style gang tagging scratched into some of the seatbacks in
> one of OERM's PCCs (I believe it was LARy 3100) a few years ago. I figured
> it was the moronic loser children or young gang banging parents of those
> moronic loser children visiting the museum from L.A. or San Bernadino.
> Charlie Brown (of Long Beach Transit fame) informed me that the mothers of
> the twerps living in the apartments that have encroached upon the land
> surrounding the museum have been known to give the little darlings money and
> send them off for a "train ride" so they can have some private time with
> "Uncle Whoever" is living with them that week.
>
> K.