Sometimes, you read stories like the one below and wonder if the death penalty can be instituted for "Sheer neglect of the property of others and blatant disregard for everyone but yourself" !??!

State police on Monday arrested a father and son accused of causing about 36,000 gallons of crude oil to spill in one of Pennsylvania's high-quality streams. The oil is fouling Allegheny National Forest's Chappel Fork creek, a tributary to the Kinzua Reservoir, which drains into the Allegheny River. State Department of Environmental Protection officials said cleanup would take at least two weeks.
The amount of oil "is a lot for any body of water, but especially for a stream of that size," said Kirk Johnson, director of Friends of Allegheny Wilderness, a nonprofit organization working to get better protection of the forest.
The spill occurred Sunday morning about a mile south of State Route 59 in McKean County.



According to state police, Andrew Horton, 42, of Bradford dropped off his son Christopher Horton, 22, of Bradford in the forest late Saturday or early Sunday. Christopher Horton then opened valves on seven crude oil storage tank batteries owned by Snyder Brothers Inc. of Kittanning, police said. He smashed eight meter boxes valued at $2,000 each and damaged a $500,000 generator, police said. Both men worked for Snyder Brothers, but police did not release a motive. Officials at the oil company could not be reached.
An oil-field worker discovered and reported the spill, according to the U.S. Forest Service.
The Forest Service said the spill polluted four miles of Chappel Fork and nearly two miles of Indian Run. The staff began finding dead fish -- trout and shiners -- as well as reptiles and amphibians yesterday.
Chappel Fork is a unique creek because wild trout naturally reproduce there, according to the Forest Service.



A dam and several oil-gathering booms were set up along the creek to contain the slick, and the Forest Service said the spill was contained before it reached the reservoir. Clean-up operations are based out of the Bradford Ranger Station on State Route 59.
For five years, Johnson's group has lobbied lawmakers to protect land from oil and natural gas drilling.
"Friends of Allegheny Wilderness condemns this act of vandalism in the strongest possible terms, no matter who is responsible or why they did it," Johnson said. "If this was an act of an environmental saboteur thinking he or she was punishing the oil companies, they are wrong. They caused a tremendous environmental mess and they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."