Intolerant Complete Idiot outs himself.

[blas]

Well hey, at least it's an easy watch to catch people vandalizing store property!

A little off topic, but when I worked at the gas station, one day I waited on a lady who had neck tattoos of those lightning bolts that correlate with the Nazis. I can't believe anyone is stupid enough to broadcast how racist they are.

[South Texan]

How dare you destroy his "art".

We actually had a few groups who tried to claim this about the graffiti "someone" had plastered all over several businesses' walls and fences when the businesses started to paint over it. They said it was "Art" (you could hear the capital "A" and the hard, defensive "t" at the end) and that the businesses were violating the "artists'" First Amendment rights to self expression - and were racist for wanting it removed as it also was a cultural thing.

When the businesses stated they wanted to meet the "artists", and were ready to file felony criminal mischief charges for the damages, the groups suddenly got quiet.

[Kristev]

Once, I did do some counter-vandalism. I saw a swastika on a bathroom wall (one where I didn't work) so I took out my pen and drew the 'No' symbol over it. You know, the circle with the slash.

[Argabarga]

There's that Dimitri Martin joke he tells, about spending all the time reading the graffiti in bathroom stalls, and then it hits him, why do so many people go to the bathroom with pens?

[dalesys]

There's that Dimitri Martin joke he tells, about spending all the time reading the graffiti in bathroom stalls, and then it hits him, why do so many people go to the bathroom with pens?

They left their I's out.

[MoonCat]

A couple of idiots were prosecuted for graffiti vandalism here not long ago. Both of them tried to argue that it was "art" and "expression." In both cases, all they did was tag buildings (and anything else they could reach) with a single word (not even a dirty word), in a scribbly, wobbly, badly-done style that you could barely read. If that's "art" I have no hope for the future of young artists around here.

[greensinestro]

Sounds to me like he hangs out in this bathroom quite a bit to notice that. Great to know people like this exist.

[ShadowBall]

Wow, did drawing a swastika really drain him that much creatively that he has to throw a fit over his "work" being "ruined?" Poor baby.

[Moirae]

Wow, he's an idiot. Hope he has alot of lawyer fees for that act of tagging.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

I don't care if it's the Mona Freaking Lisa, it's still vandalism on someone else's property and it's against the law.

Take a very large set of stones and a very tiny brain to sit around and complain someone removed/defaced the evidence of their vandalism.

[XCashier]

I don't care if it's the Mona Freaking Lisa, it's still vandalism on someone else's property and it's against the law.

Precisely. You want to make art, you buy your own supplies and make it on your own paper/canvas/wall.

Murals are paid for by the owner of the building. If the building's owner didn't pay you to paint or carve their property, it's graffiti, and vandalism.

[emilochka]

Hate speech aside (but wow!), I love his indignation that you destroyed his "work" - as if scratching a well-known and fairly simple symbol on a toilet paper dispenser is a triumph of self-expression.

[tropicsgoddess]

Idiots..can't live with them, can live without them. I'm glad he got banned! Hope the door hit him on the ass on the way out!

[charred]

I don't care if it's the Mona Freaking Lisa, it's still vandalism on someone else's property and it's against the law.

Take a very large set of stones and a very tiny brain to sit around and complain someone removed/defaced the evidence of their vandalism.

Precisely. You want to make art, you buy your own supplies and make it on your own paper/canvas/wall.

Murals are paid for by the owner of the building. If the building's owner didn't pay you to paint or carve their property, it's graffiti, and vandalism.

What about Banksy? Shepard Fairey? Swoon? Twist? Michael Kirby? Invader? Can you honestly say that the work of these great artists doesn't insert some grey into your black-and-white worldviews? Their work may technically be illegal, but I, for one, would rather not live in a world without it.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Him: "Whoever fixed that was very unprofessional. It's a terrible thing to undo other peoples' work."

Betcha he thinks it was "unprofessional" to undo the work of a certain mustachioed world leader say, 65 years ago.

What about Banksy? Shepard Fairey? Swoon? Twist? Michael Kirby? Invader? Can you honestly say that the work of these great artists doesn't insert some grey into your black-and-white worldviews? Their work may technically be illegal, but I, for one, would rather not live in a world without it.
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If they're doing their artwork using their own supplies, on their own canvas or whatever, great. Otherwise, no.

Unless we are supposed to say it's okay to mark up property not belonging to you as long as you find the result pretty or nobile. Technically, it's illegal to rob banks, but the money you get from it would sure make life easier.