"Just as most of you wouldn’t want me to come to your house/appt and paint the outside/inside an ugly gray and brown plaid, polkadot or paisley….so too should we leave others property alone."
I've done my share of tagging, and all the taggers that have any sense at all don't tag on houses, people's fences, small businesses, people's cars, etc. That is messed up, and as you would say, "asshat."
However, when people tag on concrete walls behind buildings, or under freeways, or in canals, like in the picture, it is not on anyone's property. And that shit is ugly, anyway. I don't see why the government wants to pay millions to paint over a tag drawn on something uglier than the graffiti. Plus, does it really cost millions of dollars to go out there with a bunch of paint and go over it? And once they do go over it, it'll be even uglier than before!
What California (and everywhere else with a graffiti problem) really needs to do is find areas that are out of the view of society and designate them as legal tagging areas. That way, it will keep most of the graffiti away from areas where people may not like it. Where I live, most the graffiti that I see is drawn in only areas that other taggers will see. There is no point doing it on a main street; it will get covered up too fast.
I've done my share of tagging, and all the taggers that have any sense at all don't tag on houses, people's fences, small businesses, people's cars, etc. That is messed up, and as you would say, "asshat."
However, when people tag on concrete walls behind buildings, or under freeways, or in canals, like in the picture, it is not on anyone's property. And that shit is ugly, anyway. I don't see why the government wants to pay millions to paint over a tag drawn on something uglier than the graffiti. Plus, does it really cost millions of dollars to go out there with a bunch of paint and go over it? And once they do go over it, it'll be even uglier than before!
What California (and everywhere else with a graffiti problem) really needs to do is find areas that are out of the view of society and designate them as legal tagging areas. That way, it will keep most of the graffiti away from areas where people may not like it. Where I live, most the graffiti that I see is drawn in only areas that other taggers will see. There is no point doing it on a main street; it will get covered up too fast.