Taggers

[gsdx]

It's not a serious problem here, and we rarely get graffiti parties like you had there. we tend to get the drunks coming home after bars close and tipping over mailboxes.

There is one alleyway here in town, though, where there are any number of places and people you can call 'for a good time' scribbled all over the walls.

 

[Lube]

I live in a city, but not much grafitti here.

It's kinda strange, because there's this huge economic gradient over an 8-block spread. 1.5 blocks south of me is the ritziest block in town. 6.5 blocks north of me is the worst.

 

[GL]

It isn't a problem where I live. It's a different matter where I work however.

 

[sissyboy]

Not a problem for us at home, at least not since we moved out of the city.However, one of the record stores that I used to manage would get tagged about once a month. I had a sand blasting company on speed dial because it happened so often. Usually it was some fool trying to get a little free publicity for his band...

 

[ozguy]

.....Is graffiti a problem where you live?

Fortunately no, though our street is something of a thoroughfare for drunken undesirables who walk into town late at night. We often wake up in the morning and find 'tasteful' presents like empty beer cans and fast food containers on our front lawn. The other morning I even found a used condom!

 

[gsdx]

hmm my phone never rings.......

I can scribble it on a few toilet stall walls around town if you wish. Oh, and the bus depots as well.

 

[tbonez]

Tagging isn't a hugely visible problem in TO, nor is graffiti (For a city this size). I think part of the reason is that the Public Works Dept. cleans up or paints over the mess virtually the next day. I think the 'artists' have decided that it just isn't worth all the effort to have it only last a few hours.

Some of my neighbours have cctv type set-ups aimed at the street. Actually caught some vandals...local prats. Their parents and the police were notified and they had to do a neighbourhood walk-about apologising an picking up trash and cigarette butts. Two kids made the news when they were caught tagging cars, the guy who caught them spraypainted the punks in the face apparently...Now the twats want the police to catch their assailant!

 

[Paws]

Tags aren't the same as graffitis.

 

[Croynan]

If the work is not for a worth while mural, then when caught let them do public service, like getting the stuff off of tagged walls and streets or even better yet give them pleasure of painting the yellow dividers between lanes on the freeways.

Maybe if they had to work under those condtions that the Dept. of Transportation workers do, they might get a feel as to what it is like to necessary painting and not the crap they do.

In addition, I see no reason why they cannot be involved in cleaning up over passes where tagging and graffiti as been painted on the sides or even on various road signs indicating destinations etc.

And if they do it a repeat time, double their public service time and throw in some purblic servic cleaning up at parks and beaches and or let them work in "skid row" for a change and see how being in that enviornment gives them a different perspective of the society and city they live in.

 

[metta]

We have had taggers in the city but I have never heard of anyone doing it on peoples homes. It is normally done on public property. The residents get pretty angry if it is not removed wihin a few hours. The city spends a lot of money to make sure that it is removed quickly. I have not seen any in a long time. I don't see why taggers would want to tag the city now because it gets removed quickly.

The biggest problem was down by the freeway, along the railroad tracks. But it has all been cleaned up.

I could not imagine people actually tagging homes. I live in a gated community and I would think that here would be easier places to tag.