A few years ago, Las Vegas Mayor, Oscar Goodman, said to combat taggers, they should have their thumbs cut off.
Well, maybe Oscar was on to something, as this story came out today in the Sun: A $2,500 reward is being offered to anyone who provides information leading to the conviction of those responsible for recent graffiti on three ancient rock art panels in the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.
Officials said the art panels — varying in size from 3-by-6 feet to 8-by-9 feet — were completely covered with maroon spray paint. The vandalism happened in the Willow Spring/Lost Creek area, officials said.
The panels included pictographs, defined as paintings and drawings on rock, and petroglyphs, drawings scraped and ground onto the surface of the rock. All were severely damaged, officials said.
The Bureau of Land Management estimates that restoration will cost about $10,000. The vandalism is the most severe case in Red Rock in the past several years, said Mark Boatwright, archeologist for the BLM's Red Rock/Sloan Field Office.
Officials said the art panels — varying in size from 3-by-6 feet to 8-by-9 feet — were completely covered with maroon spray paint. The vandalism happened in the Willow Spring/Lost Creek area, officials said.
The panels included pictographs, defined as paintings and drawings on rock, and petroglyphs, drawings scraped and ground onto the surface of the rock. All were severely damaged, officials said.
The Bureau of Land Management estimates that restoration will cost about $10,000. The vandalism is the most severe case in Red Rock in the past several years, said Mark Boatwright, archeologist for the BLM's Red Rock/Sloan Field Office.
For those who have never been to Las Vegas, Red Rock is just west of Las Vegas, off of Charleston Blvd. It's absolutely beautiful, with mountains, with red ribbons throughout the mountains. You can see Red Rock if you are traveling west on the southern I-215.
And to have some tagger to go put his paint on rock's pictographs is both selfish and criminal.
So, my punishment would be have the thug have a 20 minute meeting with Oscar Goodman and a gangster guest of Oscar's choice and then let them have at it.
That, or 20 years in jail, being a date mate with Bubba up at the Lovelock prison.
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