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
"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!
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.
and if they need a clean wall for their ceremony, couldn't they use the other side of the wall?
Juts tell them Banksy did it, and they'll fall all over each other trying to preserve it as a work of art.
"rival tagging crews get shot"
Not in Cornwall.
Give them time.
Camilla.
If it's not their property then it's not ART, it's vandalism.
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