A friend of mine is house-hunting and I’ve been going along to offer opinions. We went to an open house over the weekend and the house itself looks pretty good. However, while we were upstairs we happened to have a good view into the neighbors’ yard and she noticed some graffiti. Now she’s wondering if this is gang graffiti or just random vandalism.
As it happens, she took some pictures from up there (trying to get a good view of the yard of the place for sale, for reference) and one shot includes the grafitti in question. Now, the last place I lived, I would have looked at the upright shapes - which look like pitchforks or tridents to me - and instantly said “gang!” But the squiggly stuff in the middle doesn’t look familiar.
What do you think? Gang grafitti, or just neighbor kids messing around in the yard with spray paint?
Looks like kid-art to me. Gang art usually has a certain style to it, even if you can’t make out exactly what it says. This just looks like a cutesy kind of picture. I also thought of a boat, stars, maybe the moon. Even if it is a “G”, it doesn’t have that “style” that I don’t quite know how to describe. It looks childish and pretty innocent, IMVHO.
I can’t really tell from that small picture but that doesn’t look like any tagging I’ve seen before. Maybe some neighborhood kids formed a “gang” and marked the shed as their meeting place?
It looks a little too formal to be “kids foolin’ around,” but it’s too involved to be a gang tag, IMO. It’s too much like a picture, rather than a straightforward marking symbol. We live very close to the train tracks that run freight out of Miami, and trust me - there’s a LOT of graffiti on those trains, and none of it looks like this.
Another vote for NOT gang related. If you’re really concerned you could take it to the police department* and ask them if they recognize it.
*I have no idea about your location, but you might want to go to the county dept rather then the city if there tends to more graffiti in other parts of town. Also, in Milwaukee, we have an anti-graffiti task force, if your city has something like that, they might even be the one’s to contact.