"I can't believe I got the whole thing!"

July 22, 2009 8:00 AM

Graffiti Filter: Looking for a photo or confirmation of a myth of an epic and humorous piece of graffiti.

A friend recounted the tale of someone unlocking a train yard one morning, only to find a (previously) clean multi-car train tagged with "I can't believe I got the whole thing!" sprayed the entire length of the train.

Google-Fu has failed me, images comes up with the ever popular "ate the whole thing," and text comes back with a large amount of NSFW fiction involving things fitting places they shouldn't...

posted by GJSchaller to grab bag (4 comments total)

I don't know about that particular phrase, but the term wholetrain or similar describes the act of covering an entire train with graffiti and there is even a movie by that name. Googling gives many images and videos (some from the movie).
posted by TedW at 8:19 AM on July 22

Do you have a location? US based or Canada? East coast or West coast? Just words or a full on fleshed out piece? You'd need more info to find any confirmation, mostly because if it was just a quick tag, it wouldn't attain legendary status (taking a minute to run down the whole car is not really impressive). If it was a fully fleshed out multi-car piece, then chances are that kind of ego would have photographed it and it should be easier to find. It sounds more like an urban legend told by a train yard worker to me.
posted by saturnine at 3:01 PM on July 22

Sorry, I should have thought of that...

USA, East Coast, NJ I believe.
posted by GJSchaller at 4:52 PM on July 22

It's a bit odd to talk about "locking" a train yard. They tend to be open spaces, patrolled rather than enclosed. I could see people talking about wholetrains, but the story part doesn't sound right.
posted by mendel at 6:31 PM on July 22