guymonmd Wrote:
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> 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?
There used to be a big (sometimes violent) rivalry between Canadian and U.S. loggers with bridges, trucks and trains being damaged. Johns story could have been related to that.