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Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Even evil people do things for a reason, part 2

I learned that the reason the High Rock Lookout was not staffed when I was up there on Sunday [LINK] was that it had been vandalized. Vandals broke all the windows in the original door, broke up all the cabinets and drawers and threw them over the edge of the cliff. The place looked rather bare inside, but I hadn't made the connection.

Bud the lookout keeper is waiting for needed repairs to be made. The lookout has landmark status, so it has to be put back the way it was.

It takes a special kind of cretin to hike 1.5 miles, along a trail that gains 1400 feet over that distance, in order to wreck something with no intrinsic value. There is probably more to the story of what motivated these vandals, because even evil people do things for a reason. I wonder, though, if even looking for the inevitably bankrupt reason behind certain destructive acts tends to dignify them in some way.


posted at 3:23 PM

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