{"id":280,"date":"2011-11-04T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/?p=280"},"modified":"2014-01-26T12:58:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T17:58:12","slug":"you-just-cant-fix-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/280","title":{"rendered":"You just can’t fix stupid!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we all know, I’m currently in Tucson, AZ visiting family.\u00a0 In today’s paper (11\/04\/2011), the Arizona Daily Star<\/a>; there is an article about someone “tagging” Saguaros in this area.\u00a0 Now,\u00a0 Saguaros<\/a> are unique to this area of the desert, and are commonly seen in western movies.<\/p>\n

\"Saguaros
Saguaros along Trail defaced with paint - AZ Daily Star image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is something I just cannot get my mind wrapped around. Why would any deface a national treasure like this?\u00a0 I simply cannot understand why some people deface others property.\u00a0 It serves no purpose, and it just….I find it very frustrating.<\/p>\n

Imagine if you will.\u00a0 You are walking along a nice paved trail designed for walking, enjoying the beautiful sunrise in Tucson.\u00a0 You pause, close your eyes, breathe in the fresh, cool morning air.\u00a0 As you sigh (you are in your happy place now) you open your eyes.\u00a0 Do you notice the golden rays of sun reaching over the mountains-no.\u00a0 Do you notice the green vegetation-no.\u00a0 What is the first thing that catches your attention – a beautiful Saguaro defaced by someone’s ignorance and stupidity.\u00a0 What was a golden moment has fled, and you are left with the thought that maybe humanity is sinking into the abyss.<\/p>\n

Walls are easy to repair, but this type of vandalism… just fries my ass.\u00a0 You cannot paint them, as that may interfere with the photosynthesis process (someone a lot smarter than I can explain that better). You cannot scrape them, as they are full of thorns and such, plus, that would look even worse.\u00a0 It takes years for the paint to fade… and I just find it repulsive that some jerk would do this.<\/p>\n

If you happen to visit the Tucson, AZ area; you should visit the Saguaros National Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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As we all know, I’m currently in Tucson, AZ visiting family.\u00a0 In today’s paper (11\/04\/2011), the Arizona Daily Star; there is an article about someone “tagging” Saguaros in this area.\u00a0 Now,\u00a0 Saguaros are unique to this area of the desert, … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49,8,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aom","category-life","category-rants-raves"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":935,"url":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/935","url_meta":{"origin":280,"position":0},"title":"American Gestapo","author":"DR D","date":"April 23, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"With the recent shootings, and the bombings in Boston, MA, there have been new calls for gun legislation, immigration reform and prosecuting the bombing suspects as terrorist.\u00a0 We (as a country) need to be very, very careful about the precedents we set.\u00a0 Look at what we got from our rush\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Rants & Raves"","block_context":{"text":"Rants & Raves","link":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/category\/rants-raves"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1016,"url":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/1016","url_meta":{"origin":280,"position":1},"title":"An experiment in Timesharing: 2013 Timeshare Journey – July","author":"DR D","date":"June 7, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The end of June we made a switch. 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