Ghost of Christmas Future "Takes Aim at Development Billboards"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE12/13/2006

A series of billboards advertising housing developments became targets for an anonymous "Ghost of Christmas Future" armed with paint balls and spray cans this morning.

The mysterious vandal issued the following statement:

To: Those Who Are Destroying Our Mountain Homes
From: The Ghost of Christmas Future, of the Appalachian Mountains

On the morning of December 13, in the holiday spirit of love for home and community, I, the Ghost of Christmas Future, took aim at the property of the developers who are destroying our mountain landscape, and defaced the following billboards.

-- I wrote "Stay Out" and "Yuppies Get Out of Our Mountains" on Reynolds Mountain and The Cliffs billboards on Merrimon Avenue.

-- I hit a billboard advertising a ski lodge on I-240 West, and another development billboard on the Smokey Park Highway with paint balls.

-- I defaced three development "for sale" signs on Tunnel Road in Swannanoa.

-- On Hendersonville Rd., I splattered two billboards with paint (for The Cliffs at Walnut Cove, and for the Ramble in Biltmore Forest that is "Inspired by Nature").

-- The billboard for Firefly Cove on Hendersonville Rd. was enscrawled with "Stop Development".

-- The Cliffs at Walnut Cove billboard on Sweatencreek Rd. near Gerber Rd. was also targeted.

The signs were targeted specifically for what they symbolize; namely, the abject destruction of nature for profit, the eradication of wild creatures and the systematic annihilation of mountain communities.

My deepest holiday wish is that our society will awaken from its stupor of greed and arrogance and begin to recognize the intrinsic value of wild land and creatures, and work toward building a world based on those values.

Warmest wishes to all in the hope that all living beings have a place to call home for the holidays.

For the Earth,

The Ghost of Christmas Future

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