<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Will this affect geocaching? Would anyone even attempt to place a cache at a light rail stop?<br><br><span style="color: rgb(96, 0, 191);">Riders of Metro light rail will get five days to ride the system for free. But when it comes to vandalizing the trains, there are no freebies.</span><br style="color: rgb(96, 0, 191);"><br style="color: rgb(96, 0, 191);"><span style="color: rgb(96, 0, 191);">"There will be zero tolerance," said Tom Simplot, chairman of the Metro board. "The last thing we want is a graffiti-ridden, garbage-strewn light rail system."</span><br style="color: rgb(96, 0, 191);"><br style="color: rgb(96, 0, 191);"><span style="color: rgb(96, 0, 191);">The Metro board voted this week to adopt a zero-tolerance policy for violations of its prohibited-conduct ordinance, which is effective in Phoenix, Tempe and Mesa. The ordinance prohibits vandalism,
smoking, playing loud music, and other inconsiderate behavior.</span><br style="color: rgb(96, 0, 191);"><br style="color: rgb(96, 0, 191);"><span style="color: rgb(96, 0, 191);">Officials warn that first-time violators will be punished beginning on opening day, Dec. 27, receiving fines of between $50 and $500. Some acts of vandalism could be prosecuted criminally.</span><br style="color: rgb(96, 0, 191);"><br style="color: rgb(96, 0, 191);"><span style="color: rgb(96, 0, 191);">Anyone who sees someone vandalizing a train should inform a Metro security officer or use one of the call boxes on the train, officials said.</span><br style="color: rgb(96, 0, 191);"><br style="color: rgb(96, 0, 191);"><span style="color: rgb(96, 0, 191);">"Call us," said Rick Simonetta, Metro CEO.</span><br><br>http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/12/18/20081218lrail-graffiti1219.html<br><br><br><br><br><br><div><div><div><div><div>Tsegi Mike and Desert
Viking</div><div><font color="#6633cc"></font> </div><div><font color="#6633cc">Till a voice, as bad as Conscience, rang interminable changes<br> On one everlasting Whisper day and night repeated -- so:<br>"Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges --<br> "Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!"</font></div><div></div><div><font color="#6633cc"></font> </div><div></div><div><font color="#6633cc">Rudyard Kipling , The Explorer 1898</font></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table><br>