Boston Police report arresting a Brighton man on charges he was busy spraying his tags on "public poles, signs and hydrants," in the area of Arlington and Hobart streets until he was confronted by people who told him to knock it off:
District E-5 reports they've recovered a can of blue spray paint and are "vigilantly pursuing possible suspects" for five graffiti incidents on April 15 and 16 that police estimate will cost hundreds of dollars to repair.
According to police: A fence at LaGrange and Redgate had obscenities sprayed on it, a car on Emmmonsdale and Linnet had a stripe added, a mini-van on Redgate had a penis spray-painted on the rear window and a garage on John Alden had both a penis and "WR" applied.
Absolutely, we shouldn't be encouraging rapscallions to whip out their Sharpies and mark up the T, but you have to almost admire the effort, or at the very least, the amount of time, that went into this defacement of a blank sign on the E line. One wonders if a judge would sentence him based on the number of letters if he gets caught and convicted.
Via Boston Reddit.
Boston Police report arresting a pack of alleged taggers from the 'burbs on charges they marked up several Back Bay buildings early this morning, including a Japanese noodle place, the Boston Architectural Center and the Boylston Street firehouse. Police say one of the spray desperadoes attempted to escape police only to crash her bike into a cruiser.
The five are alleged to have spray painted a variety of bathroom and sexual references, as well as "EAT THE MEEK/POOR" on the rear of the firehouse.
The five allegedly scattered when the po-po arrived around 2:45 a.m.:
Rob Larsen has posted hundreds of photos of Boston-area graffiti.
Meanwhile, Jonas Prang sighs that people like the ones Larsen follows are the reason we can't have nice things, specifically, a mural at the Roxbury Crossing T stop.
AlertNewEngland reports Boston Police set up a perimeter around the former St. Anne's School on Como Rd. this afternoon to catch some kids who allegedly broke in to tag up the roof. One of the kids escaped, but police got him in custody when his father brought him back to the school and turned him in.
Rachel Blumenthal reports somebody spray painted the Make Way for Duckling statues.
Big Red & Shiny reports that the 35-year-old Boston-based artist has decided to change her pseudonym. Big frickin' deal, right? The original post made it sound like the woman herself had died; they've added a sentence that it was just her "persona" that died. Artists!
Specifically, spray painting graffiti on various buildings around Gainsborough Street, the Huntington News reports. While searching for one of the student suspects, another student apparently objected to the police presence and so chest-bumped one of the cops. Another student was found to be in possession of "a large amount of prescription pills, for which the student did not have a prescription."
Somebody tried replacing the obscene anti-Urban Outfitters graffiti in front of the unopened Harvard Avenue store with a more charming love-of-Allston message. Allston City Limits says it's an improvement.
Councilor John Tobin (West Roxbury, Jamaica Plain) plans a hearing on whether the city should stiffen the penalties on people who mark up or otherwise deface "historic landmarks, monuments and structures."
Cleveland Circle explained. From Boston.com:
MBTA police are investigating the defacing of 14 Green Line trolley cars at the Reservoir Yard in Brighton. ... Nine of the cars have been cleaned and returned to the tracks, Pesaturo said. He said that service was not affected because the T owns a surplus of Green Line cars.
One thing about Mr. Pesaturo. He sure can tell a convincing fib with the best of them.
The Dorchester Reporter reports state workers spent this morning painting over anti-black and anti-gay graffiti and swastikas somebody sprayed along the Neponset Greenway over the weekend:
... "The whole wall down there had graffiti all over it. One of the murals down there had nothing but swastikas on it. They demolished the mural there. We had to wipe it out because it looked so bad," said Stephens.
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Danielle Bremner, 27, of Queens, is due in court this morning on 34 graffiti charges related to incidents last year in the Back Bay.
Also due in court today: Mr. Obey himself, on new charges brought by Boston Police.
Both are due for arrival in separate courtrooms in Boston Municipal Court, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office.
Bremner is charged with spray-painting "Utah" between January and June of last year on Commonwealth Avenue and Dartmouth, Exeter, Fairfield, Gloucester and Newbury streets, the DA's office says. She's also wanted on a previous case involving graffiti at the Orient Heights Blue Line stop.
She and her boyfriend face charges around the world for their graffiti:
The Queens couple had reportedly fled to Europe for three months, "where they dined, partied - and tagged their way through 10 or so countries." So their legal problems aren't just in the city, allegedly France seeks to prosecute them.
Bremner was arrested on the Boston charges in October.
Innocent, etc.
A man already facing numerous gun charges was arraigned today on new charges that he spray-painted racist graffiti and a call to assassinate the president on a black man's house, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
John Sieckarski, 49, had his bail on the gun charges revoked following his arraignment in Chelsea District Court this morning, the DA's office says.
Sieckarski, arrested on 22 counts of illegal gun possession and improper gun storage in November, is charged with spray painting a former neighbor's house with a variety of anti-black slogans, including one advising him to die, and another declaring that Barack Obama should be "assinated" (sic).
The DA's office says it is considering civil-rights charges and that the Secret Service has been notified.
Innocent, etc.
The Crimson reports that when the night was done at a Chinese Students Association "graffiti-themed party" Friday night, organizers were outraged to discover that some of the wall messages were anti-Chinese.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, or, in the case of the Arborway overpass by the Forest Hills T stop, when somebody paints over some graffiti, take advantage of that by drawing a head and hands atop the "body" (his left hand is actually on the other side of the pillar). He's been there for several months now, too.
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