Tagging Damage Up to $10K

According to the Journal; (link - sub req)

There is a little inter school rivalry building between West Mesa High School and Albuquerque High.

Apparently, some students from AHS went over to WMHS and vandalized WM's mascot; a mustang. They painted it green and strapped a dildo onto its head. The students signed their work with what APS spokesperson Rigo Chavez described as "clues"; "AHS" and paw prints. (Sherlock) recognized that AHS could mean Albuquerque High School, and that paw prints could associated with the AHS mascot; a (bull)dog.

In apparent retaliation; some students from WMHS went over to AHS and did about $10K worth of damage. They left more "clues" like "mustangs" spray painted over the AHS bulldog. The leadership of the APS conceded that "mustangs" could refer to the WMHS mascot which is coincidently a mustang.

The APS leadership's line;

"What people are quick to do is point fingers," Albuquerque High Principal Tim McCorkle said. "... There's no proof my kids did it over there, or their kids did it over here."

Another APS administrator, whose name I didn't catch, was on TV to float the idea that some unidentified third party was trying to stir up trouble between schools.

Unclear is any apparent motive behind the expensive and dangerous clandestine operation.


The leadership of the APS has assured the community that they are studying crappy video tapes, in an attempt to identify the perpetrators, from a dozen grainy pixels of each of their faces.


The leadership of the APS spent $700K dollars repairing vandalism last year.

They also a million dollars refurbishing an unnecessary board room. That million alone could have substantially upgraded the District's ability to identify vandals and recover damages.

Instead of installing the necessary lighting and video surveillance to protect schools, they spent millions of dollars refurbishing the Uptown Administrative Complex.



Submitted, as proof of incompetency.