graffiti
Back Bay neighborhood group declares all-out war on graffiti, ad flyers
By adamg - 1/31/12 - 8:18 amMatt considers a new effort by the Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay to combat scrawls, stencils and band promotions, doesn't much think of trying to curb the flyers:
If you see an old flyer, tear it down and throw it away. If someone you know regularly puts up flyers and leaves the old ones up underneath, tell them to take them down and stop being a jerk. But don't call the cops on them. Don't take $300 out of a 23-year-old kid in a band, out of a broke comic, out of a struggling theater company, or out of a man with a van. These streets are for all of us, and so are these [poles]. Taking all the flyers down all the time makes it impossible for the really little guys to promote, and while it might make your streets a little cleaner, it also makes them more sleepy. You live in a city. There's stuff going on in a city. Instead of trying to stop people from finding out about it, maybe try going to it. ... on the nights that you don't have Back Bay Association meetings, of course.
Alleged jetsetting criminal mastermind to get a taste of Boston justice
By adamg - 12/15/11 - 3:41 pm
Tagged up Red Line car, signed with Bezat's tag.
A man wanted on two continents for massive graffiti attacks against subway systems was nabbed in Newark as he was about to board a plane for Paris and has been shipped up to Boston, where he now faces up to three years in prison for allegedly tagging up Red Line trains and Alewife station on Sept. 13, the MBTA reports.
Maxime Christian Bezat, 25, was arrested at Newark Airport on Dec. 3. Although he faces numerous tagging charges in New York, MBTA Transit Police journeyed south to bring him to Boston, which in recent years has become something of the nation's graffiti enforcer.
Bezat, who allegedly goes by "Rask," was arraigned in Cambridge District Court yesterday on vandalism charges; he was ordered held in lieu of $10,000 bail.
A photo released by the MBTA of a spray-painted Red Line train shows two other large tags in apparently different styles than Rask's. MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo said "the investigation is ongoing."
Innocent, etc.
Citizen complaint of the day: The angry stenciler of Dorchester
By adamg - 12/4/11 - 2:32 pmOr did somebody from Allston take a wrong turn off the Expressway? Either way, a concerned Dot rat is not at all happy about this stencil on the sidewalk on Crescent Avenue:
Citizen complaint of the day: Bold jerk is really getting annoying
By adamg - 10/24/11 - 7:24 amA fed-up citizen files the latest report on somebody calling himself Bold, who keeps scribbling his fool name all over Forest Hills.
Who tagged up downtown banks over the weekend?
By adamg - 10/24/11 - 7:20 amWith what appears to be pro-Occupy Boston graffiti? WBUR reports.
Art or vandalism?
By adamg - 10/3/11 - 5:40 amThe Daily Free Press interviews a street artist who sometimes wheat-pastes posters, sometimes does some stenciling and sometimes just sprays her tags on things:
After she finishes, Skeczh said she runs from the site to avoid getting arrested. One street artist she knows hung around too long after spraying a piece in an alleyway and was discovered by police, she said.
Crime epidemic in Wellesley
By adamg - 7/13/11 - 12:06 pmGraffiti's gotten so bad in Wellesley town officials have had to put up signs telling people not to spray-paint things. And somebody promptly spray painted those signs!
Spray paint vs. people fed up with graffiti: Spray paint loses
By adamg - 5/10/11 - 5:09 pmBoston 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:
The suspect, once approached by witnesses and passersby began verbally assaulting them and gave them the middle finger. As witnesses continued to admonish the suspect for his activities, he eventually became physically assaultive and aimed spray paint in the direction of the witnesses which in turn lead to a physical encounter leading to the suspect being restrained.
Adam M. Brandon, 30, of Brighton, was charged with malicious destruction of property.
Innocent, etc.
Police in West Roxbury vow to bust roving taggers
By adamg - 4/25/11 - 9:04 amDistrict 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.
Graffiti is an act of vandalism that affects the quality of life in our neighborhood. It is unwelcoming and certainly unwanted in District 5. The perpetrators are usually teenagers who often tag as a prank or to show membership to a group or gang. In the cases reported last Saturday, it is more likely that the suspects were playing a prank.
It's not like he wrote 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious'
By adamg - 3/23/11 - 10:25 pmAbsolutely, 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.
