Street Artist Uses Graffiti to Converse with the Police

“Unrepentant Criminal Uses Vandalism to Whine about Not Being Allowed to Deface Property”

There fixed that headline for you…

I second ‘slander’. You guys should fix that typo in the headline. Witty or not, it’s still destruction of public property, and this site is giving him props for being criminal. He needs to find a LEGAL outlet for his wit. No, he’s not “fighting the good fight” or “stickin’ it to the man’, he’s just using up our tax dollars on his horseshit.

Using our tax dollars up? Who said we had to remove it? It wasn’t vulgar or obscene, why should we spend the tax dollars to have it removed? I’m not condoning this activity, but why the hell should we care?

Because it isn’t his property to write on. It isn’t his decision what should be painted on that wall. I admit, at first glance it is funny, but painting on things that doesn’t belong you you is a crime. Have someone paint on your car and see if you can still ask that question.

If my car’s paintwork was as shit as that wall’s, I’d welcome graffiti on it. And a sense of humour.

stfu omg dont you all realize that your bitchin about bein a tax payer & how he doesnt have the right to deface the wall! wheres the wall? is he not a taxpayer ? does he not have a goddam rite to voice his opinion as well as you fu**s?

A car would be private property. I’m sure this was in a public area. It’s a little different. If you were to paint on my car, I would obviously have to remove it. This, however is not hurting anyone.

But but it’s public property!

Everyone should be able to spray paint on it, since it belongs to everyone. It’s public, right?!

mate gay. just because you can’t be funny yourself does not mean you can whine at other people for being funny. shut up and show me some tits.

First of all Bill Vincent, I wouldn’t worry about your precious tax dollars considering Mobstr is an English graffiti artist, so that’s that solved. Second of all he has not “Destroyed” public property, if it were anything it would be “Defacing” you make it sound like he has bombed the wall. He hasn’t hurt anyone, so labelling him a Criminal is a bit too far, yes he has in fact broken the law but you don’t exactly go around labelling people who smoke and drink under-age Criminals; which is alot more harmful and costs more to the tax payer and I bet you did the same when you were younger. Rant over, show some humour the artist here wanted attention and he got it and you gave it to him.

Wow, interesting how artistic expression is apparently related to paying taxes. Most people I know who really worry about paying taxes are accountants, who of course are also paragons of creativity and originality in society. Isn’t part of the ARTIST’S point that we accept drab, nonsensical measures of conformity too often, and that acceptance of this bland reality could become a norm in our lives?

Good idea: innocent fun and/or talking point for the local community.
The public service would be even greater, though, if s/he stenciled each line on yet unpainted-over areas, so they get painted as well.

> English graffiti artist
The likelihood is that it was community service ‘offenders’ (aka slave labour) doing the painting over. Could be kids caught spraying graffiti. Sure they enjoyed the joke.

It’s kind of amazing how everyone overlooked the statement the artist was making in the first place. The wall was obviously a hideous distraction to his community and he was drawing attention that it need to be painted. The authorities then just made it worse by whiting over it.

and all yous are worried about is your money

i agree with distracted. also want to point out many people myself included tend to see graffiti as an art form. and art should be public and make a bold statement as this artist did. the people in his community (and now the world) can see that the question he raised is… what is allowed? i personally think that he was a bold person to take on the police and in the end give up knowing that his statement in some way may have opened the eyes of just one person.

Fianlly lol ^ distracted and edward are thinkin right… i become disgusted with the amount of attention in the comment section directed towards taxes and how this guys a “criminal”. i think hes quite intelligent and frankly hilarious… he was drawing attention to an eye sore in the city and crackin a joke about it, the police didnt get it cus they screwed it up again and again… they should have simply repainted the entire wall

Not horse shit i think it’s quite funny, there should be lots more places to let you do graffiti.

Did anyone even stop to think that it’s not the police that paint the walls?

I totally agree. We should all be able to paint on public property.

Bill Vincent. Your a tosser with no taste for fine art, and obviously humour. Twat.

“Self-righteous web trawler suffers from rejection following unsuccessful sense of humour transplant surgery.”

Sound any better?

but it’s that kind of horse shit (which by the way is two words) that make life a little more tolerable? You choose to waste money on your frills, I substitute most to allow for such malarky! Silly excuse I know…my true point is: isn’t life serious enough? A little humor goes a long way. Smile, i’m sure it’s not costing you too much. If it is, do something about it or get another job, otherwise; smile, stop complaining, and fuck yourself.

This douchebag isn’t “conversing” with the police, (police don’t paint walls, tools!) he’s illegally spray painting a private citizen’s wall. Now this person that own’s the wall will have the privilege of painting over this idiot’s completely unfunny “art.” Art that pretends to be something “profound” but actually betrays the artists immaturity and lack of a real message. “I was really trying to show how ugly the wall is by making the wall uglier instead of getting off my fat, prepubescent ass and painting the wall myself.”

Dude. This guy isn’t making a “statement” he’s making people think he’s a flaming douchebag that needs to get a real cause. What is allowed? Is this guy mentally deficient? Vandalizing someone else’s wall is obviously “not allowed.” Maybe I should make a “bold artistic statement” and spray paint the walls of your house and garage to probe the question – “What is allowed?” I mean, really, it’d be amazingly profound. 

This guy isn’t making a “statement” he’s making people think he’s a flaming douchebag that needs to get a real cause. Maybe I should make a “bold artistic statement” and spray paint the walls of your ugly house. I mean, really, it’d be amazingly profound, bold, hip!

“Even more self-righteous failure whiteknights street vandal, says defacing public property a-ok with him”

How’s that for ya?

Harryhi1, you’re a failure at life.  what say we come over to your personal property and paint all sorts of witty sayings onit? Bet you’d like that, huh?Some idiots shouldn’t have computers.

The bottom line is, this twit defaced property that *does* *not* *belong* *to* *him*.

Does that make any sense at all?

Yes, the word “let” being key here.  As in “to allow”.

Yeah, let’s go to your house and spray paint shit all over it and see how you like having to clean it up.  Dumb cunt.

It doesn’t matter who’s property it is.  The key here is that it *isn’t* the vandal’s property to deface.  Why is this concept so hard to grasp?

Well, you shouldn’t have a right to voice your opinion, simply on the basis that you can’t write worth a shit.

Blah blah blah, it’s not his property to deface.  Is this really that hard a concept to understand???

Then there’s all the pretentious goofbballs on here who defend this so-called *art*.

Public property is just that – it essentially belongs to everyone.  This does not mean everyone has the right to do whatever they want to it – for that very reason, because it’s others’ property as well.  If you’re sharing a flat with someone you don’t just paint the walls in the living room turquoise one day because you felt like it and, after all, the living room is “common space.”  That would be rude and juvenile.  You discuss it with your flatmate.

Of course, that wall’s paintwork is probably shit because of graffiti.