F-ing Taggers!
Enough’s enough. I don’t advocate violence against anyone, but . . . wait, no, let me amend. I don’t advocate killing anyone, but I would strongly advocate snapping the fingers on piece of sh*t taggers.
This morning on my way to work, I looked up at one of my favorite things - the faded Sunbeam bread ad on the side of a building at 21st and L and what did I see? A giant ass tag covering a corner of the ad. Ooooh, I am not happy. Couldn’t dig out my camera or phone fast enough to snap a photo.
Anyone interested in starting some midtown patrols? I’m not talking Minute Men vigilante action, just some flood lights and citizens on patrol watching our prized blank walls. Something has to be done . . . .
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Great idea. Can they do double-duty, as long as they’re out there, and help to keep pedestrians from being run down in intersections?
I’m all for the finger-snapping. That pisses me off–especially when they do things like tag the Sunbeam ad or other remains of decades-own painted signs.
Too bad they can’t come up with a coating that will generate a huge static electric charge when contacted by the chemicals in spray paint. How many taggers do you think would continue the practice if they got the crap shocked out of them every time they tried to tag something? Besides, it would be funny as hell to watch some would-be tagger staggering away from the scene with smoke coming from his/her hair!
Let’s start a “Punch A Tagger Today” campaign!
Its amazing the talent that taggers have some of the art work is beautiful so why don’t they get their heads out of their a** and put their talent to some productive work. There are many buildings that have art work painted on them. If the taggers continue to tag get your camera out and take a pic of them in the act we all know most work is done at night but still if they are caught in the act I think a tooth brush and some soap and water or powerful cleaner may make thme think twice if they have clean up their work.
Looks like there was another wave of fresh tags up P Street this weekend. More punches are in order.
Yes, Christina that is EXACTLY like the Minutemen.
Non-violent and watching for crimes. Nice to see people are staring to understand the truth. And you can bet the taggers were not minutemen.
“Bobby B”:
A) That’s not my name.
B) The minutemen are not jolly good chaps protecting us from the brown scourge from the south. They are isolationist goofs who are fighting imaginary foes and blaming the wrong people for the country’s woes.
The only good Minutemen is the band.
DC, you’re an idiot.
Who is DC?
I get your gist but what is so terribly important about a 50 yo faded ad for cheap bread? It’s an old dirty brick wall, for this we should grieve?
Even if it were a plain brick wall, I would grieve because tagging indicates a fundamental disregard for others. The cheap bread ad is a tiny artifact of old Midtown and I think it’s cool. But again, the bottom line: unless the tagger own that wall, he/she should’ve kept his/her ignorant-ass, disrespectful, hating mitts off.
In case I’ve not made the message clear: any “street art” that is created without the permission of the person or entity owning the property onto which it is sprayed, painted, stickered, or carved, is criminal and should never be celebrated. From this kinda crap to those cutesy characters stenciled on city sidewalks.
Christiana…so tell us how you really feel about taggers! Having discovered your blog recently, I wanted to take an opportunity to say that, while I may not always agree with your viewpoint (who always agrees with someone else, anyway?), I appreciate your style and…oh hell, I’m really not trying to be tediously verbose, so I’ll revert to an outmoded expression and simply say “mad props” for your blog and trust you to understand.
Anyhow, I think you’re right on target here. Not that I’m advocating the breaking of spraycan-wielding fingers, tempting as the prospect of some form of physical retribution against those “f-ing taggers” is. But some sort of general citizen involvement is the only way I can see issues like this being addressed.
On another front: speaking of ignorant-ass behavior, if you’re going to comment on someone’s blog, at least do them the courtesy of spelling their name correctly!? Not that “cd” needs anyone else to defend her, but how hard can it be? If you can’t spell it right yourself, cut-and-paste, y’know?
So, of couse I hit “POST” before I was finished.
On to the whole reason for my compulsion to comment: why should we care about some old ad on a wall? A fair question, which I would counter with a few of my own: Why should we care about what happens to some 500 year-old painting? Or a 1,500 year-old statue? Or your car? Or my backpack? His phone calls. Her privately-held beliefs? Because when a society, or a significant segment thereof, glorifies lawlessness over the rule of law, we all ought to be concerned. Note that I’m not talking about conformity or dissent here, but blatant lack of respect for the rules which keep us functional as a society.
Is that too great a leap, to go from wall-tagging to seeing symptoms of some larger societal disorder? I don’t know, but it makes sense to me.
Jay Charles…we’re looking for a few good bloggers. If Christiana hasn’t contacted you to write for this site, she should.