Gang Graffiti

[Molly]

MFers hit our alley last night. Got our garage door and several neighbors as well as the alley pavement

[haltz]

What does it say, can you make it out? I'm assuming it's not as well done as this:

[Molly]

Don't recall. Gang signs of some kind. Called the city and they are going to take care of the pavement.

[StatmanCrothers]

"... round up the usual suspects ..."

[Radio_Bugtussle]

A police officer friend of mine somewhat inadvertently stopped all the tagging for several weeks in his community a few years back by taking a can of yellow paint and drawing a circle and slash in yellow over the all taggings of said community's various gangs on the back of a warehouse. He then signed his badge number.

Apparently this frightened the little thug wannabes quite a bit. Took em about three months to decide whether it was safe to get the spray paint out again. The entire police department was highly amused.

[G. Keenan]

What does it say, can you make it out? I'm assuming it's not as well done as this:

Is that real? It's amazing if it is.

[haltz]

Is that real? It's amazing if it is.

Oh yeah, dude. This guy named Banksy who's a street artist in the UK.

http://www.banksy.co.uk/menu.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy

[Popeye_Card]

Is it just me, or does it seem like there's much less grafitti now than in the past? Is it because of age requirements on purchasing spray paint (18+)?

This doesn't hold true for Europe, in my experience. Seems like everywhere you look, someone has "tagged" it.

[Arthur Dent]

Is that real? It's amazing if it is.

Oh yeah, dude. This guy named Banksy who's a street artist in the UK.

http://www.banksy.co.uk/menu.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy

Isn't that the guy who sneaks his stuff into art galleries to hang on a blank bit of wall?

[haltz]

Is that real? It's amazing if it is.

Oh yeah, dude. This guy named Banksy who's a street artist in the UK.

http://www.banksy.co.uk/menu.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy

Isn't that the guy who sneaks his stuff into art galleries to hang on a blank bit of wall?

Not that I know of, but maybe. He did do this, which is pretty awesome:

In August/September 2006, Banksy replaced up to 500 copies of Paris Hilton's debut CD, Paris, in 48 different UK record stores with his own cover art and remixes by Danger Mouse. Music tracks were given titles such as "Why am I Famous?", "What Have I Done?" and "What Am I For?". Several copies of the CD were purchased by the public before stores were able to remove them, some going on to be sold for as much as £750 on online auction websites such as eBay. The cover art depicted Paris Hilton digitally altered to appear topless. Other pictures feature her with a dog's head replacing her own, and one of her stepping out of a luxury car, edited to include a group of homeless people, which included the caption "90% of success is just showing up".[27][28][29]