When "tagging" goes too far......

i dabble in graffiti. i do commisioned pieces and murals. i'm with ol' skratch ther is an unwritten law within the real graff writers circle. no houses and no cars etc. probably the guys doing that **** are punks who are trying to make a name for themselves. personally i HATE tagging it serves no real aesthetic purpose and for the most part gives graffiti a bad name.

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Kevin - it goes back to the roots of graffiti. Used to be in urban run down areas, kids wanted to visually voice their discontent, or a social conern, and do it in manner that would define their neighborhoods from just being rundown to something that at least had some beauty and art. Then tagging came out, when it was a very similar ideology, only it was taking your name but applying it in a aestheticly pleasing manner on rundown buildings, or train cars or "ugly aspects of their neighborhood. THEN the ego stepped in - turf markers. No consideration to to its original principles, just a turf ownership or breast beating. Then the final eulation by kids that don't even have a turf but too much time and ego, and thus is what you end up with. Its really a sad all too common story.

 

I'll keep my eyes open, Mark. Funny thing is, taggers usually end up being skaters( except for the obvious gang ****), so If you know of any in your neighborhood, you might start there. I have beef with skater/taggers cuz they get spots shut down all the time, little punk ***es

 

I live in a nice neighborhood our subdivision has a fence that goes all around.In the past years it has been tagged on different occasions.Once as my family and I were going out to dinner we caught two kids tagging so the natural thing to do was chase them.I had never seen somebody run as fast as these 2 clowns while being chased by a Jeep at the same time my wife was calling the cops.they were caught and I told the officer that I chased them with my Jeep and he was cool with that.My kids learned a valuable lesson don't f--k around with other people's property.I had mentioned to my neighbors in the past that we should stake out the subdivision,and if we catch the taggers we should strip them and paint them so that they can explain to the cops why they are walking around naked and painted in the middle of the night.My neighbors thought that I was a little too radical.I guess seeing a pair of taggers run as they are being chased by a Jeep was more conservative.

 

"One such- cars and houses off limits." Hey somebody owns the buildings and other stuff taggers mess up. What about the busness owner who doesn't want to se that **** all over HIS property? What about the expense and h***el of constantly removing or painting over that garbage? When it gets so you can't buy a can of spray paint thank these jerks.

 

Hmmm, saying most of the time graffiti is done on abandoned buildings, train cars, or buildings that the least of their worries is some spray paint, I'm pretty sure you missed my point entirely. Note my distinction between graffiti and tagging.

And before your start throwing insults and the word "garbage" around, in a meager attempt of internet tough guyness consider two things. 1. I will not be drawn into an internet battle with someone that cannot see the woods for the trees. 2.This was a simple explanation of the difference and causal properties between an art form and a destructive ego trip. A point to which you completely missed, once again.

 

that would be some riotous ****! stupid *****s...

 

This is true - even in Laramie Wyoming. I have had my shop tagged more than once and they have successfully caught the people responsible twice. In one case the guy was fined and had to pay the cost of repainting the wall AND he had to actually buy paint and paint it himself - THAT was MY favorite solution! I had all of my co-workers go outside one at a time and watch him work.

The other time it was a group of people and they fined them and made them pay res***ution only. I never had the satisfaction of meeting them. In reality the police really take this seriously and do a pretty good job of tracking these dirtbags - at least in Laramie.

 

Tagging fine should be a tattoo of the 'tag' on the forehead of tagger!

 

The place where I buy spray paint sometimes asks for I.D.

 

that is ****ing wrong...i'll keep an eye out, what area of town?

 

That why it's become cool to ruin even historical rail equipment? My local NRHS chapter has had well-kept stuff get tagged by these clowns, eventually they broke in and trashed a building, tried to set it on fire (concrete block buildings don't burn very well). I lost a car to them. If I ever find 'em, they're not going to enjoy it that's for sure.

 

I used to live in Queens,NY right near a junior high school.My bro caught one little ***** "tagging" our house.Painted his face with his own paint,then threw him in the dumpster.For some reason,the neighbors wouldnt talk to us anymore.No tags on the walls for years.God,I miss the old days!

 

thats ****ty, would be fun to catch them in the act and handle it the right way. but dont evrybody get all ****ty about spray painting it beats the hell out of actually hand painting your shops wall ! ha

 

You used to be a "Graffiti artist"? I got a hot flash for you. You used to be a ****in' vandal. Changing the name of it don't change what it was, destruction of somebody else's property. Bored suburban kid? Code of conduct? Substance? Anything you used to do, if you had to sneak around to do it, is called cowardice. Grow up, completely now, and admit to what it really was, no excuses now, you are man enough........