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California woman sentenced for vandalizing national parksA woman was sentenced this week after pleading guilty to vandalizing several national parks, where she defaced rock formations with her art and signature tagline creepytings.
Casey Nocket, 23, was ordered to serve two years probation and 200 hours of community service after pleading guilty to seven misdemeanor charges, according to the National Park Service.
She was banned from entering any national park while serving her sentence and will be required to pay restitution, which will be determined at a hearing at a later date.
Nocket spent 26 days in 2014 traveling to seven locations in California, Oregon, Utah and Colorado, where she used acrylic paints and markers to draw or paint designs that she later posted online to her Instagram and Tumblr accounts.
Acting U.S. Atty. Philip Talbert said Nockets art reflected a lack of respect for the law and our shared national treasures.
The areas that were vandalized include Yosemite, Death Valley, Rocky Mountain, Canyonlands, Zion and Crater Lake national parks and the Colorado National Monument.
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,500 posts)I for one sure hope that restitution for removing that crap is EXPENSIVE
MH1
(17,608 posts)can be fully restored; but that she is held responsible for every penny.
It's almost a bad pun in this case, but you know the expression, "can't get blood from a stone"? I'm hoping that she had the kernel of good sense to use material that is not difficult to remove. Because she doesn't sound like she can afford expensive restoration.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,064 posts)hollysmom
(5,946 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,064 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)a couple of years with some aerosol cans to apply her 'artwork' in a concrete cell would be appropriate.
jalan48
(13,907 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)She should get some real jail time. Her getting such a light sentence has encouraged the shit that has been happening this year including the shitstains who walked through Grand Prismatic this spring and the surfers on the Bonneville Flats, rappelling at Arches NP etc..
Fuckwads with no respect should be removed from having any personal freedom until they learn to respect that which others, like myself, toil to keep wild and untrammeled for future generations. These assholes are so self-centered and selfish that they can't think beyond their own instant gratification and hope of their 15 minutes of fame.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)2naSalit
(86,897 posts)poetic justice if that happened while the next group of imbeciles try climbing them and they win the Darwin Award. And if their survivors try to sue, they should be counter sued.
Raster
(20,998 posts)I'm an ar-tist!
TNNurse
(6,931 posts)She owes an apology to me and everyone else in this country. I want to see her name and face on billboards, magazines and newspapers and point out the fact that she is a criminal who defaced property that belongs to all of us.
Here is one of this works--
Running Fence[edit]
In 1973, after 17 stateless years, Christo became a United States citizen. In 1972, Christo and Jeanne-Claude began preparations for Running Fence: a fabric fence, supported by steel posts and steel cables, running through the landscape and leading into the sea. The fence was to be 5.5 meters high and 40 kilometers long and constructed in Sonoma and Marin Counties, California. For the project, 59 families of ranchers needed to be convinced and the permission of the authorities had to be obtained, so Christo and Jeanne-Claude hired nine lawyers. At the end of 1973, Christo and Jeanne-Claude marked the path of the fence with wooden stakes. On 29 April 1976, the work finally began after a long struggle against bureaucracy. Approximately 200,000 m2 of nylon fabric, 2050 steel posts and 145 km of steel cable were needed. On 10 September 1976 the work was completed. However, Christo and Jeanne-Claude had to pay a $60,000 fine, because they lacked permission for the coastal region.[citation needed]
Wikipedia
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)more like banksy, except banksy tends to put it on manmade things. I thought their work at gaza was pretty amazing.
homegirl
(1,436 posts)community pride regarding the Running Fence. People still talk about it and I think the community would be agreeable to a repeat or a similar project.
niyad
(113,771 posts)Nitram
(22,945 posts)It is all removed after the photos are taken. Do you really fail to understand the difference?
Perseus
(4,341 posts)start placing their "art" in national parks.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)IronLionZion
(45,615 posts)We should not be letting people like this woman come here and ruin our national treasures. This is all Obama's fault.
Homegirl might just be an entitled clueless idiot who didn't know it was wrong. I suppose its good that she has to pay restitution and is on probation. But the main reason she didn't get roughed up by the cops like the more urban graffiti artists is probably due to how she looks.
homegirl
(1,436 posts)Excuse my ruffled feathers but I am homegirl since 1987. According to my provider-the first homegirl followed by hundreds.
IronLionZion
(45,615 posts)Orrex
(63,260 posts)shambolic
(12 posts)Lacks talent as well as respect for nature.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)Seven years sounds good to me.
scottie55
(1,400 posts)I am sick of having to look at this garbage everywhere.
Throw the book at her.
kiva
(4,373 posts)klook
(12,174 posts)-- with any luck, the rest of her defacements aren't permanent.
It's hard to understand the idiotic mindset behind this -- narcissism combined with cluelessness, I guess. How can someone experience such gorgeous natural places with so little comprehension?
kiva
(4,373 posts)The massive ego of this, to think that
a. she could somehow improve the beauty of the area she trashed
b. other people had any desire to see her "art"
c. she had any right to go into a place that belongs to all of us and paint her crap
I'm glad she's being force to pay for the cleanup, and really glad that it's going fairly well.
villager
(26,001 posts)I guess that kind of vandalizing is a.o.k. though.
deathrind
(1,786 posts)She should get jail time. Crater Lake is a gorgeous place...how anyone could think that adding a hideously looking painting like the one above would add to its beauty needs a serious time out.
vkkv
(3,384 posts)magical thyme
(14,881 posts)or other means.
So far they've cleaned up several of the sites. Hopefully they'll get the ugly, talent-free mess off the rest of them sooner rather than later.
TeamPooka
(24,286 posts)Nitram
(22,945 posts)Every generation has its idiots.
TeamPooka
(24,286 posts)Nitram
(22,945 posts)And now we've got the "Kardashian Defense" for being a publicity-hungry idiot.
Mendocino
(7,520 posts)no wonder so many artists are starving.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)That top one is Crater Lake, I believe. It definitely doesn't need any dime-store banksy "improvements".