Jesus, get over it already. Your first post was ambiguously worded, and someone misunderstood what you were saying. Stop whining about it, already. It’s pathetic.
Well, that’s one man’s opinion, eh, Miller? You don’t mind if I don’t share it, do you?
What was ambiguous to you?
To be fair, I read the word “scrounge” as more of a trespassing kind of word, too. It was an honest mistake that I don’t see was hard to make. Your word choices were not the best.
I can see where your original statement could have been misinterpreted but FWIW I understood what you meant.
More sweet, sweet justice… http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6259453.stm
Not to put words in anyone’s mouth, but I think the reasoning here is that the victims of a burglary are only those few people directly victimized, but the victims of a tagging are everyone who has to pass by and look at it. Some graffiti art is certainly worthwhile and expertly done, but much if not most tagging is just an ugly scrawl than which that 99.99% of the population would rather look at a plain brick wall.
To this extent I’m inclined to agree, though I don’t think draconian punishment is the answer.
Well you are not putting words in my mouth, I agree. In addition, the direct cost of mitigating tagging can easily exceed any residential burglary I am familiar with.
One note: I am not in favor of the death penalty or life in prison for taggers, but if one of them is dumb enough to get in front of of a multi-thousand ton train and get killed, my sympathy is with the guy driving the train, and the people that are late for dinner because that Darwin award winner got in front of a train.
Come to think of it, the penalties should mainly be civil in nature, and require the offender to make some sort of restitution.
I thinking you hand the fuckwad a brush and some detergent and tell him to have at it.
So what if it takes him 3 days to clean it off?
The 21 y/old leaves behind a 5 month old son.
Yeah, he’s stupid for putting his life at risk, but fuck you if you think that child deserves to grow up without his father simply because Daddy liked to spray-paint railway bridges. 
I don’t, I was more mocking the sicko ‘sweet justice’ comments about the New Yorker. Though I admit the tastelessness of the original comment did tickle me.
Fair enough.
I’ve always thought Brizzle would be a much less interesting place without Banksy’s pieces around the place… always used to enjoy looking out of them round the town.
Although there’s a difference between Banksy’s stuff and the type of random tags you see on the railways etc.
Indeed - someone even set up a new-fangled internetty Wi-Fi thingamy where you could wander around the Stokes Croft area with commentary through headphones. The irony being that that particular area is not the sort of place you’d want to wander around with obvious expensive equipment hanging off you…
Me as well. And, personally, even if a scrap heap is self-evident, I wouldn’t take anything from it without somebody’s permission for the fear of being mistaken. Especially on a construction site where I don’t work.
Anyhow, to the issue at hand, tagging annoys me to no end, but graffiti murals in certain places do not. As long as they’re confined to industrial areas, place that can be seen from public transportation but mostly not anywhere else, under bridges, in subways, etc… I really don’t mind and actually quite enjoy it. On residential homes, garages, historic buildings, redwoods (!?), it does bother me. To me, an urban setting would not be an urban setting without some graffiti.