Three Darwin Awards in one day?

[moggyonspeed]

Three men have been killed on the railway track near Loughborough Junction in south London. A number of paint spray cans have been taken away by the police, who refuse to comment on what the men might have been doing.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-44520759

Any ideas? And what might any graffiti have said, on the outside chance that that's what the paint was used for?

[Deleted]

Good. The more they get the better. f**k**g vandals - can't stand graffiti.

[mids]

The bizarre death of Banksy.

[mids]

Common scum.

Tributes are being paid to three graffiti artists killed by a train in south London, while a local Conservative party chairman faces calls for his expulsion after describing them as “common scum”.



Police have informed the families of the three men, aged 19, 23 and 23, who were killed by a freight train near Loughborough Junction station on Monday morning.



The street art community has identified the men only by the tags they used as Kbag, Trip and Lover.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/19/tributes-graffiti-artists-killed-loughborough-junction-train-london

[jimboky]

a triple play for Darwin,


are they going to send the bill for taking off the paint to the families?

[mids]

I wonder if there'll be riots now?

[perrykneeham]

Three minutes' silence is being observed at Halfords.

[perrykneeham]

Odd. I assume that these lads had real names. I doubt those are the names the coroner will use.

It's almost like the families don't want folk knowing their grown-up kids were killed while defacing public property with juvenalia.

[voice]

do stupid things, expect stupid consequences, ffs to die over this, at least it purges a bit of stupid from the gene pool.

[perrykneeham]

I must say that I have a sneaking regard for the artistic skills of these guys.

[wetkingcanute]

They all think they're unique but for the last thirty or so years - and all over the UK and Europe they are all nearly exactly the same

boring tags over and over again.

No real skill and absofuckinglutley no artist merit whatsoever.

[perrykneeham]

Well, I agree about tags generally, which are very much the terrltory of your wigga, but some of the stuff which I've seen under, say, the A312 on sponsored sites, is very clever.

[nobody]

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[mids]

Not exactly Rolf Harris are they?

[reverend]

Jun 19, 2018 17:48:43 GMT perrykneeham said:

I must say that I have a sneaking regard for the artistic skills of these guys.

Shame about their situational awareness really!

[perrykneeham]

Suffering for their art, I suppose.

[moggyonspeed]

... and now it's our turn?

[mids]

Well we won't have to suffer their art any longer.

[moggyonspeed]

You're right of course, but then they don't have to pay for the clean-up; that's down to the likes of you and me.

[mids]

Or, as Jimbo suggested, make their families pay.