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zdsc:
I was pretty shocked when I was in Australia at how much graffiti there is about.  There's lots in certain areas in England (usually around some train lines) but not so much where I live...in fact, it's so rare, it was a bit of a novelty to see it when I moved down South for 3 years. 

I think that there's some talent with some people - but the lack of respect for the property of others winds me up.  If you want to graffiti on your own house, go for it - but they should leave everyone else out of it. 

And people who scrawl the same stupid tag over and over are somewhat missing the point, I feel. 

lollylegs:
On the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, two guys took the problem into their own hands and started painting over the graffiti with a high powered paint gun (using their own money to buy the paint and donating their time)

The police arrested them on the grounds that they were defacing public property!!!

There was an uproar in the community about the arrest and local people started donating money for paint.  Others have come out of the wood work to help them, and new graffiti is being over painted as fast as it appears.  The local council has now got involved and is also getting straight on to new graffiti and painting over it, and apparently it seems to be doing the trick.  Probably the artists have moved themselves to another shire because the incidence of new tags in decreasing daily.

Oh yea, the criminal charges have now been dropped from the guys that started the over-painting.

justbrowsing:
That really sux!!!

I hope they catch the little darlings and make them repay you out of their pocket money!

faza:
I feel that this is a common problem that is getting worse australia wide.
Parents need to be held accountable for the actions of there kids, i am quite often driving home from work at midnight and see 13 and 14 year old kids hanging the streets, society is going downhill and until the laws are changed i cant see much improvement

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