I went to the beach this weekend with my family. My little girl was walking around picking up seashells. There was an older man near her writing on a shell with a shapie pen. He walked over to her and handed her the shell. I said thank you to the man and he smiled. He walked ahead , picked up another shell and began writing something again. He had written an anti-Obama message on the shell. My girl picked up a few more he left on the beach. I saw him a couple hours later walking back, picking up shells and writing propaganda on them.
What an a-hole. It's one thing to disagree with the direction of this country. It's quite another to ruin your daughter's day at the beach.
Well, it kind of ruined MY day. My daughter actually liked finding the shells with writing on them. I think it's incredibly rude to try and shove politics in someone's face like that. Plus he ruined some perfectly good seashells
Mollusks' liberal leaning have been well documented. It was probably the radical right crustaceans if you ask me.
In a way, isn't that defacing in some aspect? I hate people who simplify things and put slogans on shit we don't need to have slogans on. I go to the beach to enjoy the beach, to get away from that horse shit, not have it thrown in my face.
I can't believe he honestly thought he would change anyone's view's or opinions by writing slogans on seashells. He did it out of spite, not to provoke thoughts on the subject. It's the same as someone writing "Deeez Nutz" on the bathroom wall or spray painting "Fuck you" on a train car. We painted the shells when we got home. His slogans now have girly pastels all over them.
either way, the guy is a dumbshit (and I felt the same, and feel the same, about people who wrote stuff about Bush on things not normally dedicated for slogans).
Remember the guy who shot dead a black guy in Los Angeles for spray painting graffiti and was treated as a hero? Downtown graffiti artists only vandalize walls, not nature.
I've never heard anybody refer to shells that way. One man's trash is another man's treasure. If anyone gave my daughter actual roadkill/litter with propaganda written on it, I think I would kick them in the groin.
