Results tagged “vandalism”

Workers this morning outside the D.C. headquarters of the Human Rights Campaign, one of the most influential LGBT organizations in the country, were finishing cleaning up graffiti left by vandals there over the weekend.

An estimated 20 District bus shelters were vandalized overnight, according the District Department of Transportation. An investigation is still ongoing and DDOT does not yet have a full report on the exact number of bus shelters involved or the extent of the damage.

Vandals attacked a window display that featured pro-LGBT T-shirts at the Silver Spring American Apparel store on Monday morning, The Sexist reports, shattering a window in the process. The Georgetown location of American Apparel also received a telephone threat later that day about their similar window display.

UPDATE 2: DCist's own Mehan Jayasuriya checks in with a report of how things are progressing at the site:

Reader Zach Sparer sent us this image from a station pylon inside Farragut North Metro. Something's clearly not right here. Since when is the Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan Metro station called "Zoological Park"? And what about "Tenley Circle"?

Yesterday we showed you how someone had added a spoof image on a Metro rail car suggesting that "Rapture" is a behavior that's banned on the transit system. Today, WMATA's director of public relations, Lisa Farbstein, sent us the agency's response to the mystery culprit.

National security and nuclear arms control blogger Jeffrey Lewis of ArmsControlWonk was on the Red line this morning when he noticed a rather odd new sign prohibiting certain behavior on Metro. Next to the usual diagrams picturing how you must not block, crowd around or lean on Metro doors, someone had affixed another warning: No "Rapture," with a little businessman about float up to Heaven, and the universal symbol for "don't do it," the red circle with a line through it.