There is a school under construction near where I live. The school is a magnet school which caters to the low-income housing projects directly across the street. Last year the school got a large 20 million dollar grant to reconstruct the entire school. They are doing a fantastic job. The place looks wonderful. There is beautiful granite work all around it, lovely aesthetic features…very nice.
This morning I drive by and notice some stupid ass gang symbol and writings on the gorgeous granite work…
Nice clean slate for you to fuck up eh…?
What I would have given to have caught you red handed. I’d have taken that spraypaint and shoved it soo far up your ass you’d have thought Ronald-fucking-McDonald was sodomizing you with a happy, happy grin across his face!
Why do people do these kind of things…The fucking school is there to help their children learn and get out of the ghetto. Don’t give those pompus asses at the city council anymore reason not to fund your low-income housing projects!
So Ronald McDonald’s well hung and likes to use it like that? Good to know.
Seriously, anyone who defaces other people’s property deserves hard time – get them out there cleaning this kinda shit up and helping clean the city/town they live in!
Wow, thats the most amazing thing I’ve heard all day. Then again, I guess you don’t hear much when your smoking crack and screwing your brains out all day.
I have personally had it with graffitists - the ones around me are 13 - 15 year old kids who can’t wait to see a clean fence and have a go - they have just done our fence. My neighbour and I plan to catch them red handed, follow them home and spray: ‘I’ve been defacing the neighbourhood’ all over their house. Little fuckers. Being Tongan, their parents may well skin them alive.
Even worse, I live across the street from Pratt art college. We get these little rich fuckers from Conn or Mass and they tag up the whole neighborhood. I live in a new building and I’ll assume one of them lived in there, because he covered the stairwells and elevator.
I swear if I ever catch him, I’ll bust his face and tag up the walls in his blood.
I’d have jumped out of my truck and ran after them had I seen them doing it. I seriously would have. Then I would have marched them across the street and into the large green in the middle of the projects…and…and…uhhh… Well I’m not sure but public humiliation would be on the top of my list.
The Lord Said:
Oh it’s been being built for nearly a year. The 30 mill renovation/expansion is nearly complete. I saw some guys this morning trying to sand blast or something like it, to get the defacement off. You know, this really goes up my ass sideways, I hate it when people are this ignorant and assholish.
There is a guy at my work who keeps tagging random cubicles in our toilets. My work no less! This is a nice building with desks and computers and people doing their jobs. This fucking stupid adult writes some unreadable word in weird 12 inch letters every fucking day in one or more cubicle. Sometimes twice in a day he will tag the same cubicle if the cleaners have been in to clean his shit (the cleaners sweep through every hour). This has been going on for months now, we keep getting memos sent around saying things like " We know this person to be male, working the late shift and occasionally works the weekends. We are getting closer to catching him." I can’t beleive he is banging in the weekend overtime, he really really must be crazy.
At least it gives me something to do in the loo, because when I am in there I tend to examine the slotted ceiling tiles for a little digital camera in the hope that the head janitor has gone black-op in a bid to catch the culprit. Then I can nick it without fear of reprisal. Is that bad?
Graffiti is slowly destroying our metro system. It’s everywhere.
On the concrete work - and we’re not talking expressway pylons, we’re talking beautiful buildings and details out of poured concrete.
On the tiles - it gets between the tiles, where it can’t be removed, so you end up with clean tiles with paint between them.
On the train windows - it’s not enough to stain surfaces, they also have to carve their bloody tags into the plexi windows until they have to be replaced.
On the artwork. Now this is where my bile really heats up - goddamn shit-eating fucks decide that their fucking tags are so artistically important that they can deface a beautiful work of art that someone might have spent months creating. Claude Guité had four beautiful, immense murals 500 feet long in Snowdon metro, depicting the four seasons. Two have been destroyed by graffiti and whitewash, and the other two have been damaged. Someone put red paint on Raoul Hunter’s statue of Mère Gamelin. Permanent marker and stickers on Jean Cartier’s murals of the Patriotes revolt at Papineau metro. Until a few years ago, Marcelle Ferron’s stained glass at Champ-de-Mars metro, the most important work of one of Quebec’s most important artists, was so badly damaged that they considered removing it. (It was brilliantly restored.) AGH!
Shall we all take a moments to consider the little turds who use scribes. I’ve seen small business owners with nice plate glass windows that have been scribed. They are forced to live with it because replacing the glass will cost thousands of dollars.
My drycleaners are run by Seventh Day Adventists. Saturday is their Sabbath. They remain open from 10:00 - 1:00 on sunday. Parishoners from the church next door would park up the drycleaner’s lot each Sunday to the point where they had to put up a Towing Zone sign. They also asked the priest to mention it to his flock (which he did).
Well, some of the cars got towed, and the next week their big plate glass windows were scribed. Let’s see, your priest asked you to not park in their lot. You parked there and got your car towed. Now you come back to take revenge for being a stupid fucking asshole by doing thousands of dollars worth of damage.
I hope the little shits all rot in their wonderful Catholic Hell.
OK Everybody…take a big breath, and take a big step back from your ire.
Baying for ‘blood’ (or at least serious revenge) for a bit of paint splattered on a wall is a bit exteme, don’t you think? We’re not talking about baby-killers or dog-rapists here. We’re talking about PAINT on WALLS.
Yes, graffiti and wanton graffiti-ists shit me too. It’s a pain in the arse to have to clean your fence of tags by territorial teenagers who think that they are ‘spraying’ their superiority with a can of High Gloss.
But think about it. That is EXACTLY what they are doing. They are ‘marking their territory’ in a very primitive way. We’re talking about (mostly) teenagers who are alienated from their communities and alienated from the productive pastimes that other teenagers get involved in. These kids aren’t playing for the local footy or basketball team…they’re not doing OK at school, they’re not ‘integrated’ into the normal slots that most kids get integrated into, so they seek to make their mark in a very physical and very visible way.
They tag.
And the tagging ‘community’ has rules and mores just like those in the wider community. They abide by ‘seniority’ and they refrain from painting over someone elses tag, unless it is a tag from someone who occupies an even lesser status than themselves.
Graffiti, while annoying for those of us for the semi-privileged classes, actually serves a very functional purpose for those who don’t share those privileges. We ‘surround’ our territory with fences…THEY surround their territory with garish graffiti.
Yes. It’s fucking ill-mannered and annoying and costly for those who have to repaint their walls and fences constantly. My advice is to befriend a few local teenagers, and get them to paint a ‘piece’ on the offending wall…if it is a good one, no other grafitti-ists will dare to vandalise their work…and the wall will be forever safe.
It’s not a pain to have property damage, Kambutka. It can be a huge fucking expense. And the kids that do it just think it’s great fun. They have no clue what they’re doing, and in my neighborhood, they’re doing it to people of the same class. They’re just spoiled.
They can respect other people’s tags? Then they can fucking well respect my damned property. You know, I bet these brats are the same sort of kids who whine that they’re being treated like kids, which they will be till they stop tagging shit without any thought for what it costs the owner to repair the damage.
I’m not semi-priveleged. I’m poor and I work my ass off. Some litlte shit comes along, and he’s just as poor as me. The only difference is, he feels like he’s entitled to shit all over somebody who never did anything to him, because he’s speshul.
And cowtowing to them is just not the answer. Why is it such an outrageous idea that these little shits grow the fuck up and behave toward other people the way they want other people to behave?
I would (and do) mitigate my stance if we are talking about something like an expressway pylon, or a hoarding, or some other unfinished surface. But we’re talking about surfaces that people have put a great deal of expense and care into preparing, to say nothing, for heaven’s sake, of the artworks I mentioned in my post.
And scratchitti is just downright unsafe. A weakened plate-glass window could abruptly shatter and cut someone to ribbons.
Being a good Kneedipper I do think it’s important to eliminate the social causes of disaffection, deprivation, and anomie that lead to graffiti. But in the mean time, it’s no less of a crime, and it needs to stop. It’s bad enough in the case of a private building, but in the case of the metro, it’s costing the public purse huge amounts of money.