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Defacing public property<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Published: 10 October 2021 ~ \u00a31000 Fines for Graffiti Vandals!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Republished with kind permission of Defacing Public Property Inc<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coronavirus may have grabbed the headlines for the past 18 months, but it is not only a sea of sensationalism and disinformation in which we are drowning, the societal  disease litter pollution is on the rise and continues to go unchecked as does noise pollution and, as for the king of urban squalor, graffiti, instead of it being addressed as the behoodied plague that it is, the usual partisan suspects are more than content to talk it up as the next best thing to a boat full of migrants on their way to a 5-star hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consider this definition of graffiti from a certain British newspaper that neither you nor I would want to cut into squares and tie to a piece of string in our outside toilet even if the last roll of bog paper had been snatched up by panic-buyers in an orgy of \u2018aren\u2019t they all gormless, let\u2019s just have their money\u2019!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrom its roots as a means of visual communication for disenfranchised youth to both hide and be seen, graffiti has developed into a bona fide art form, a legitimate force for economic, cultural and social good<\/strong> \u2026\u201d [their emphasis]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, it goes without saying that if they <\/em>say it is a \u2018legitimate force for economic, cultural and social good\u2019 <\/strong>you can bet your life it \u2018aint (the same as urban slang is not).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I suppose it all depends on whether it is your wall, your gate, your fence etc, etc which disenfranchised yoof are using as as an ‘art canvas’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Legitimate, in the legal sense, it is not, although, because measures to tackle vandalism are taken lightly and hardly ever enforced, especially in the UK, for fear that the police and judiciary might have their work cut out and inadvertently step on too many \u2018rights\u2019 toes, nothing ever gets done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In so-called disadvantaged neighbourhoods where the deprived don\u2019t go to work and therefore have lots of time to run around defacing public property and lots of taxpayers\u2019 money to spend on paint, great ugly globs of spray-can paint, garish meaningless scrawl and all manner of lols and innits, add to and reinforce the contemptible \u2018art\u2019 image much cultivated by sociologists, both professional and homemade, who it would seem have nothing better to do than get paid too much whilst they sit about applauding yobbos and celebrate acts of vandalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In better areas, the sort that the champions of such illegal practices despise, which is why they encourage it, shite on walls scrawled by the disenfranchised gormless using their dole money, lowers the tone of the neighbourhood, although it does have one positive, which is that it serves to remind us that as with the poor who \u2018are always with us\u2019 so, unfortunately, are the stupid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a31000 Fines for Graffiti Vandals!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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A quick, effective and timely expedient which would nip this pitiful practice neatly in the bud would be first to arrest the culprits (that would be a start!) and then sentence them, after a hefty fine, to a month of intense graffiti cleaning wherever it may be and, if necessary, make them restore the damaged surfaces to their original pristine condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fine should be a meaningful one, say a thousand pounds, and the convicted should be made to wear high-viz jackets, preferably with graffiti sprayed across the back, ie \u2018Lol what a Twat I am!\u201d Something they would be sure to understand. Hmm, that’s not necessarily so?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for the newspaper or its online media alternative who chose to publish such gnats\u2019 bollocks, viz “graffiti has developed into a bona fide art form, a legitimate force for economic, cultural and social good<\/strong>“, I suppose that as they provide nothing worth communicating to anyone, the next best thing is graffiti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you suffer from graffiti in your neighbourhood and fail to agree with the Guardbunkle<\/em> that it is a bona fide art form, or that it gives you a boner as it must do the staff of the (mention no names) Guardinnit<\/em>, complaints should be written, preferably in spray paint, on your nearest police tunic, on the walls of the Guardbog<\/em> or\/and on the Benefit and Illegal Immigration Office at Number 10 DoNothing Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is an example of what to write: \u201cPlease do something!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please note: Graffiti originated in America, travelled to the UK through the porous borders of no common sense and then spread across the world like the benighted scourge in Roman Polanski\u2019s Dance of the Vampires<\/em>. Wherever it may be, it is up to you to stamp this evil out! \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83d\ude09Katie Hopkins Life After Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018Wot about this for garfitti, Leroy!\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Yer, innit. That\u2019s a big mother f\u2026.. spray can! Where do me get one of them?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(*Note)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

*For those of you who haven’t quite twigged it, this is not bona fide graffiti, but bona fide and legal signwriting <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Image attributions:<\/strong>
Graffiti alley: https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@baptiststandaert?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText<\/a>
Spray can: https:\/\/publicdomainvectors.org\/en\/free-clipart\/Spray-paint-can-in-hand\/85913.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Copyright \u00a9 2018-2021 Mick Hart. All rights reserved.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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