Photo: SWNS
A £3000 "graffiti wall" installed in Cornwall, England, so youths could practice their graffiti art without vandalizing the neighborhood, got its first graffiti: a disgruntled taxpayer who sneaked behind a security fence to vandalize the wall (wait, can you technically vandalize a graffiti wall?), writing "I paid my tax and all I got was this lousy wall!!"
If that’s not ironic, I don’t know what is: Link
Lars
From the article:
“But it is now going to cost the taxpayer, as we will have to crime it, investigate it and paint over it.”
Uhhm.. What about the grafiti artists? Why can’t they paint it over? I don’t hope the police will actually use any resources at all to find him!
CountryCritter
Wow, that sure is clean for a wall dedicated to people who want to write grafitti.
PK
“most of the cost was subsidised by local businesses who supplied free materials and labour”
That shows how some (most) graffiti taggers writes messages in public trying to be clever without a bit of research. That’s more about ego than truth.
They are going to clean it for opening on Oct 31, ironically. I guess at least the ceremony can be used to diss how stupid some kids are.
Ali S.
This certainly sounds like an ironic story. They have to clean a wall made for graffiti so that the kids who vandalize property can go ahead and graffiti on a cleaner wall? Am I missing something?!
DOJ
“most of the cost” does not equal ALL of the cost, so presumably some taxes were used.
and if they need a clean wall for their ceremony, couldn’t they use the other side of the wall?
D Bozko
Won’t work. Hard core taggers won’t use it and rival tagging crews get shot when they use a surface that’s claimed by rivals. You need harsher penalties for the tagger and their parents.
ted
I think I peed myself.
Juts tell them Banksy did it, and they’ll fall all over each other trying to preserve it as a work of art.
Camilla
Damn, some people in these comments seem to think graffiti is limited to tagging. Ever heard about graffiti ART, people?
D Bozko
Moodindigo.
Give them time.
Camilla.
If it’s not their property then it’s not ART, it’s vandalism.
greenmountain
They’re seriously going to clean it/investigate it? Isn’t expression like this the ENTIRE POINT of the wall?
Dan Smith
“Won’t work. Hard core taggers won’t use it and rival tagging crews get shot when they use a surface that’s claimed by rivals. You need harsher penalties for the tagger and their parents.”
Gang tagging is different from graffiti artists. Gang members scrawl and shoot each other. The chronic vandals don’t get violent. They will use the wall.
Graffiti walls don’t work though. They’re proven to increase the amount of graffiti in an area
TylertheKid
I’ll go ahead and bet that this ‘graffiti wall’ will stop vandalism about as well as ‘gun-free zones’ stop gun crime.
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