Max Patch vandals named

[kaiser715]

http://www.citizen-times.com/articl...ch-vandals-named-bald-restored?nclick_check=1

Those cited for the vandalism, according to Westcott, were Robert Hall, Tyler Irvine, Brenden McMahan, Brandon Nash and Robert Baker, all of Asheville; Tyler Creasman and Travis Whitaker, both of Candler; Nathaniel Clark, of Canton; Dustin Morgan, of Clyde; and Jonathan Mathis and Derik Pack, of Cosby, Tenn.

 

[McCracken]

Good. I'm glad to see the guilty parties get what they deserve. However, I think $407 is pretty weak. Make it a cool $1000.

 

[kaiser715]

...and the fact that from here on, whenever somebody googles one of those names...

 

[frankenyoter]

Glad they got caught. The punishment seems like a slap on the wrist

Thanks McCraken for heading up the labor efforts from our 4x4 community. Good to see a 4x4 club mentioned in the article!

"John Odell, resource management coordinator at the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, said the effort involved the U.S. Forest Service, private contractor Evans Grading and volunteers from the Carolina Mountain Club, Appalachian Trail Conservancy and the Appalachian 4x4 Club." Congrats

 

[RatLabGuy]

I think App 4x4 should send the jokers a bill for their time.

 

[McCracken]

$1000/per person.

 

[mommucked]

^^ + points on their drivers licenses and hours and hours of community service for the Forestry and Parks grounds.

 

[upnover]

Are any of those guys on here?

 

[Tradarcher]

http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/north_...an-gets-90-days-for-national-forest-vandalism
Sorry if this is a repost.

 

[rodney eppes]

Thanks 4 posting; I read it in Fridays paper, but was out of town, till today. I was looking to see if it was posted.

 

[GotLime?]

http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/north_...an-gets-90-days-for-national-forest-vandalism
Sorry if this is a repost.

I'm not saying I support the vandals. They should be punished. But 90 days in jail seems very harsh.

Drunk drivers walk the streets and this guy gets 90 days? How much will that cost taxpayers? I'd rather see that money spent on the forest lands.

 

[RatLabGuy]

I tend to agree...

but maybe the guy has a lot of prior convictions or something? No idea.
It's also a Federal case. Mandatory sentences tend to be a lot more harsh at the Fed level.

Which also means... he'll be serving in a "federal pound me in the ass prison" lol.
http://www.wavlist.com/movies/317/ofsp-poundme.wav

 

[McCracken]

and he already had to pay back $5000. Double whammy!

 

[jimdentoniv]

Good. I'm glad to see the guilty parties get what they deserve. However, I think $407 is pretty weak. Make it a cool $1000.

Yeah, they would charge three times that for riding through there just drinking a beer.