“Scratchiti,” for those of you who haven’t had the dubious pleasure of riding the New York subways, is the defacing of walls and windows by scratching names on them; it’s the successor to (spray-painted) graffiti as the scourge of the system. (I’ve read where the MTA is planning to install scratchproof windows in the subway cars, but I’m not holding my breath: it took them almost twenty years to come to grips with the graffiti problem.)
Anyway, riding on the subway yesterday, I noticed that one window of the car I was in was covered with a large scratchiti that read:
STOID
(Well, okay, actually, it said STO, with a symbol under the O that looked like a squared-off 9 lying on its back; but it doesn’t take a great deal of imagination to resolve that into the letters ID.)
So this raises several troubling ( :rolleyes: ) questions:
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[li] Have our local vandals been reading the SDMB?[/li][li] What is it about Stoid that they identify with?[/li][li] Which other Dopers have they “honored” in this fashion?[/li][li] Do any of them know about it, and if so, could the MTA charge them with being accessories to vandalism?[/li][/ul]
Inquiring minds want to know!
RedNaxela
