Taggers. Grrr...

[Elianna]

Okay. I will NEVER be able to steal SeaCat's thunder with his amazing stories, but...

Tonight I was driving home after watching a movie at my brother's house. Transformers. It was my first time. I really enjoyed it. Good special effects...

Anyway. My brother, his wife and their 2 and 1/2 year old currently live in my childhood home with my mother because they just moved back from living overseas while my brother was in school. I bought a house about a mile away from my mom's house because I loved the neighborhood and the location (plus, all good daughters live close to their lonely mothers... right? )

So I was driving home. It's 11 PM my time and I come to the intersection. The light is green, but I see this shadow run across the intersection despite the fact he can become "squashed like grape" because traffic is coming right at him. However, it IS late and this part of town is quiet. So I slow down and making sure I don't squish said kid, breeze through the intersection.

Then, I think.

"What the hell is a kid doing running across the street like that?"

Now, some of you know, I deal with delinquent teenagers on a regular basis as part of my job.

"SHIT!" The little punk was a tagger.

I do a u-turn in the middle of the street and speed back calling the police in the process (I have PD on speed dial for reasons listed above).

I pull up to the power supply box on the corner and damn it, he'd tagged it with his little sign and initials. OOOOOOOHHHHH! I want him NOW!

The little punk dashes off into the neighborhood. I give chase while on the line to the police.

Now here's the STUPID PART. I know who the hell I'm calling. This is what I do. They sit there and try to argue that I'm not calling the correct city because this street is right on the border.

Finally I say "Listen lady. I know what city this area is in. I grew up here. Furthermore I'm an person who works closely with your department. Get the police here or I'm going to lose this kid in the neighborhood, plus I don't know who he is or if he's armed, I really do not want to follow him too closely."

She screws around and I lose the kid because he runs into an alleyway that I'm not stupid enough to drive through ( it's a rural area and I'd be off roading. Last time I ran- good neighborhood to run in, by the way- down that alley it was impassible with a car.)

Finally she gets police dispatched, but now we've lost them. I am so pissed.

Little punk. Tags my neighborhood. I lose him, and the police dispatcher dicks around because she can't figure out which city the incident is in, even though I told her 4 times.

So now I'm home. Police are going to drive around and kid will hide in the bushes until coast is clear. Kid will get out his red spray paint and continue to piss his red paint and his "PS" tagger ID all over my neighborhood.

GRRRRR!!!! I'm going to take a picture of it tomorrow and call some other people I know. It's time to check some notebooks in the local high school.

Punks.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I'd be a lot more pissed at the dispatcher than at the kid. Him dumb, by definition. She's supposed to know better. Still, the back of my old truck got tagged sitting here in the driveway, for God's sake. Good thing it came off easily with a product called "Goof Off". If I'd seen him, I hate to think what I might have done to him. I try and make sure the kids in my class are conditioned to think of taggers as dogs pissing on lampposts.

 

[redpaint]

Even in a town as small as where I live we have these little punks with there spray cans. I would love to show them a new use for that can.

 

[tickledkitty]

Wait. Let me get this straight. You chased this kid, possibly risking your life in the process, just because he spraypainted his initials? Wow.

 

[Xelebes]

Somebody tagged our garage a few years back. I'm happy it was more social commentary than just initials.

 

[TE999]

Those tagger morons have begun defacing buildings in our small town.

Between kids tagging and getting high on paint fumes, I'm surprised some bright light in Congress hasn't called for banning aerosol paint cans.

 

[Elianna]

Wait. Let me get this straight. You chased this kid, possibly risking your life in the process, just because he spraypainted his initials? Wow.

It's what I do. I know he's probably some local kid at the local high school.

Those tagger morons have begun defacing buildings in our small town.

Between kids tagging and getting high on paint fumes, I'm surprised some bright light in Congress hasn't called for banning aerosol paint cans.

Now... don't do that! What would I do if I wanted to spray paint my wicker again?!!

However, I am going to catch that little punk. He'll get sloppy again.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

It's what I do. I know he's probably some local kid at the local high school.




Now... don't do that! What would I do if I wanted to spray paint my wicker again?!!

However, I am going to catch that little punk. He'll get sloppy again.

We had an incident here where a guy went and told off three taggers. They figured out they had him outnumbered so they pulled screwdrivers and an ice pick. So he reached into his back pocket and pulled out a .45 and killed all three. "Justifiable homicide" was the ruling to much wailing from the local professional ethnic community. I think he pled guilt to a misdemeanor weapons charge or something.

 

[Elianna]

We had an incident here where a guy went and told off three taggers. They figured out they had him outnumbered so they pulled screwdrivers and an ice pick. So he reached into his back pocket and pulled out a .45 and killed all three. "Justifiable homicide" was the ruling to much wailing from the local professional ethnic community. I think he pled guilt to a misdemeanor weapons charge or something.

Taggers have no idea how much they resemble dogs pissing on trees. They might as well whip it out and go for it on a signpost; it would communicate FAR more to the world than their crappy "nicknames."

 

[starrkers]

Those tagger morons have begun defacing buildings in our small town.

Between kids tagging and getting high on paint fumes, I'm surprised some bright light in Congress hasn't called for banning aerosol paint cans.

It's illegal here to sell spray can paint to anyone under 16.

So now the vandals don't tag the park toilet blocks, they set fire to them.

 

[Elianna]

It's illegal here to sell spray can paint to anyone under 16.

So now the vandals don't tag the park toilet blocks, they set fire to them.

We have that rule, too, but they are not very good at enforcing it. Plus, everyone's got a can of spray paint at home. Thus the birth of taggers. Blowing up toilets... that's interesting. I wonder what they use to do that? I'll have to keep an eye out for that form of delinquency.

 

[TE999]

It's illegal here to sell spray can paint to anyone under 16.

So now the vandals don't tag the park toilet blocks, they set fire to them.

That's a good idea...relatively unenforceable tho...what is it with kids anyway? Hormones?

I mean their fathers' should take them to the nearest whore house, get 'em laid and they'll mellow out real quick.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

That's a good idea...relatively unenforceable tho...what is it with kids anyway? Hormones?

I mean their fathers' should take them to the nearest whore house, get 'em laid and they'll mellow out real quick.

Therein lies the main problem, Tom, no effective fathers. Either the old man's long gone or he works such unholy hours trying to keep the brood fed that he has no impact on Junior. And this curren fad for single motherhood in older women doesn't help much, either. Sure, some of 'em do a bang-up job but it only takes one or two per cent to totally trash a city.

 

[starrkers]

In this town it's taken two families.

There's an unofficial bounty on the head of on particular reprobate. Haven't seen the little shit around lately. He might've heard and left town (she types hopefully).

 

[voluptuary_manque]

In this town it's taken two families.

There's an unofficial bounty on the head of on particular reprobate. Haven't seen the little shit around lately. He might've heard and left town (she types hopefully).

Or already been shoved under a bush. I understand that happens to the young men who can't learn to behave up in Aboriginal country.

 

[TE999]

Therein lies the main problem, Tom, no effective fathers. Either the old man's long gone or he works such unholy hours trying to keep the brood fed that he has no impact on Junior. And this curren fad for single motherhood in older women doesn't help much, either. Sure, some of 'em do a bang-up job but it only takes one or two per cent to totally trash a city.

Agreed. There is a total lack of positive role models for todays' youth as well. Athletes, musicians, movie stars...feh!

The state has become the father in way too many cases and the children suffer for it.

 

[starrkers]

Nah, we would've heard the outcry from the family about their darling son being missing. He's a good boy and would never do anything wrong, he's just misunderstood (despite being expelled from three schools, arrested several times and finally winding up in juvenile detention for a few months).

 

[TE999]

Nah, we would've heard the outcry from the family about their darling son being missing. He's a good boy and would never do anything wrong, he's just misunderstood (despite being expelled from three schools, arrested several times and finally winding up in juvenile detention for a few months).

Wait until he does some serious time in the barbed wire Hilton and becomes some giant murderers bitch. He'll rue the day he ever saw a spray can.