# Subway scratchiti Stoid sighting **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 21, 2001, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subway-scratchiti-stoid-sighting/94624 "2001-11-21T18:02:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RedNaxela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ad7895/32.png) [@RedNaxela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedNaxela)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2001, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subway-scratchiti-stoid-sighting/94624/1 "2001-11-21T18:02:39Z")
“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: [ul] [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 ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2001, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subway-scratchiti-stoid-sighting/94624/2 "2001-11-21T22:34:58Z")
And just what in the hell could you add to that? 😕