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When a local guy saw a father at Tumalo Falls allowing his two children to carve their names into a hand railing, he asked them to stop. 

They didn’t.

He took a picture, posted to Facebook and now, with 52,000 shares the Forest Service is hunting down the family.  

KGW has a more complete story.  

This article appears in Apr 29 – May 6, 2015.

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And then he told them to go back to California!

by Phil Busse, The Source - Bend, Oregon
May 5, 2015

<h1>And then he told them to go back to California!</h1> <p class="byline">by Phil Busse, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />May 5, 2015</p> <p>When a local guy saw a father at Tumalo Falls allowing his two children to carve their names into a hand railing, he asked them to stop.&nbsp;</p> <p>They didn't.</p> <p>He took a picture, posted to Facebook and now, with 52,000 shares the Forest Service is hunting down the family. &nbsp;</p> <p><a href="http://www.kgw.com/story/news/local/bend/2015/05/05/facebook-tumalo-park-vandalism/26935843/" target="_blank">KGW has a more complete story</a>. &nbsp;</p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/and-then-he-told-them-to-go-back-to-california-2440031/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=30267&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/and-then-he-told-them-to-go-back-to-california-2440031/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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