No Love for MBPS
This electronic dissertation was downloaded from Mutant Mail on August 17, 2006:
You really took the time and wasted what talent
you have to create a web site like this? from bored frat boys out at Pitt I
would understand but a grown man who is suppose to love the outdoors???
[MBPS: Who said that we were grown men that love the
outdoors?] But to
encourage more graffiti at this location -- sickening. By the way, it was
reported to the cops. Roger Sager [Bradford City
Police Chief] said the city is starting to deal
with graffiti in a
very serious way, witness the young adults they threw the book at last spring. i
was assured that if new graffiti goes up on that wall, the first place they are
looking is at you. My God, create a positive web site. Donate your time to some
local organization that needs a site,, like Big Brothers and Big Sisters or
something. Or devote your site to old swimming holes, fishing stories, "places
that aren't there anymore" nostalgic things that would make people feel good
about the area. As disgusting as the graffiti is at Mutant Beach, which is on a
stretch that could be the nicest spot in town, this site is 10 times worse. Sir,
grow up.
BM
Our timely response:
Mr. M*****,
Nowhere on our site will you see us promoting graffiti. On the home page we
even have a disclaimer. We are not encouraging people to paint anything at the
Beach. We can't be held liable for something people have been doing for decades.
We have been researching and reporting on the history of Mutant Beach, an area
that most Bradfordians are familiar with. In the process of researching Mutant
Beach we have uncovered & reported many interesting facts about the Tunungwant
Creek, Harri Emery Airport, and, as you suggested, local swimming holes. We
even covered the Moving Wall that came to Smethport. If that isn't positive
then we don't know what it is. Whether people like it or not, Mutant Beach has
been and is a part of the Bradford culture.
If you have anything to share about old swimming holes, fishing stories, "places
that aren't there anymore "or other nostalgic things that would make people feel
good then by all means, please submit them.
Thank you for taking the time to express your opinions.
LG, Editor
Mutant Beach Preservation Society
BM's eloquent response electronically submitted to us via Mutant Mail on August 18, 2006:
I know there was a message that in effect
encouraged graffiti. You are smart to take it down. Hopefully the warning from
law enforcment is enough to keep you ass clowns from tagging the wall again, or
hiring some neighborhood yard apes to do it. But i know that one of these days
its going to be back up there. Shame on you.
Let me ask you..... if youre so proud of this site, why not use your name? LG?
Did you use to write letters to editor to Bud Beck haha.
Another question. would you not want to see that wall cleaned up and some
positive things done in that area? You know the trail is coming that way
shortly. Who wants to walk by and see that garbage? Some things are worth
preserving -- Mutant Beach is not one of them!!!
Again, our timely response:
Mr. M*****,Again, you are incorrect. The disclaimer originally said: The MBPS does not wish to condone, endorse or discourage the painting at Mutant Beach. We only wish to report the history of the area. Placing graffiti art on public property is illegal. The intent was to show that we are only concerned with reporting on the history of the area, not to take a pro or con stance for the graffiti because that has been going on for decades. We changed it yesterday, not out of "fear of law enforcement" as we are not committing a crime (even if we did say "please re-paint Mutant Beach" it is still not a crime. If I told you to go jump off a high bridge & you did that would be your fault), but because we wanted to clarify our position. Graffiti is illegal but it still happens. People get murdered and the newspaper still covers it. People paint Mutant Beach and we cover it.
We don't know why you have such a problem with our website? You do what you enjoy and we will do what we enjoy: covering unique & interesting things around Bradford, including Mutant Beach. If you care so much about the Mutant Beach area please contact the Bradford Flood Control Authority (click here for their names) & volunteer your time to rid the Beach of the graffiti. And yes, we will cover that too. Words or not, it will always be Mutant Beach.
We are glad that you keep visiting our site. Come back often!
LG, Editor
Mutant Beach Preservation Society
SL wired this response to BM:
Dear BM.
I am a distant observer of this site and find no implication anywhere that Mutant Beach should be repainted. That is quite a leap on your part. Evidently you missed the disclaimers from the get-go.
This is simply an entertaining site, and it has lots of fun value to those of us who grew up in the Mutant Beach neighborhood. It is my recollection that the words painted on the concrete evolved over several years before it got "erased", and that the authors are still unknown. In my opinion, it is simply "folk art", and discussion of its history is appropriate. It was no sinister plot; it just happened! To deny that the Beach was ever spontaneously painted up like that is pretty lame.
Did you ever have any fun as a kid? Probably not.
Hey. Maybe you are a holocaust denying nutcase as well ? Perhaps you should move to Tehran and be with some of your revisionist history friends.
Let it be and stop whining. Political correctness is DEAD! Mutant Beach is FOLK ART.
Long live "the Beach"!
SL
Jay had the same thoughts today (August 18, 2006):
“If you can’t laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at?” – Tiger Woods
Yes, B.M. this site is satirical. THAT’S THE POINT! As my old friend S.L. (not to hard to figure out) has pointed out, those of us that grew up in the neighborhood get a kick out of it. Since I’ve been checking this site out, a lot of old memories have been rekindled (thanks to S.L.’s posts). I just had lunch with my 28 year old daughter and was relating some of them to her. I doubt the subject would have ever come up if I hadn’t been to this site. Did she enjoy the stories? Doesn’t matter. I enjoyed telling them.
Try not to take things so seriously. You’ll enjoy life a lot more.
Jay
©2006 MBPS
