Re: Maine vandalism

John West Wrote:
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> Vandals are odd folk. Some years ago when CP still
> ran across Maine, I was leasing 40 GP40's to CP
> that for customs purposes needed to be returned to
> the US occasionally. So in the winter the CP would
> store them on a very isolated siding in the Maine
> woods. On one occasion the cabs of all 40 units
> were trashed. On all 40 units every piece of
> window glass and every gauge glass was broken.
> This was obviously expensive to fix, but it was
> fascinating that any one would go to that much
> trouble. First they had to snowmobile through a
> bunch of snow. Then it took a lot of time and
> hard work to break into 40 units and trash that
> much glass. They clearly had worked very hard.
> Strange folk. And of course this is not just a
> Maine phenomena.
>
> JBWX

Vandals usually derive some kind of sick pleasure from damaging or destroying someone else's property. They often are also arsonists. The story John relates indicates the perpetrators were enjoying themselves, why else would they spend that much time destroying things?