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March 3, 2008
Is Your Little Blessing a Tagger?
God, sometimes we love Orange County. It's such a parody of itself at times, which we admire. Especially when it comes to brilliance like the following found over at Laughing Squid. You see, the city of Santa Ana (oy) wants to help parents determine, via the graphic above, whether or not their child is a rat bastard tagger. The city of Santa Ana's site explains their accusatory and unfair image, along with the final word as to what is and is not art, thusly:
Tagging is not an art form or about expressing oneself. It is vandalism and the destruction of private and public property. Tagging is any unauthorized marking, etching, scratching, drawing, painting or defacing of any surface of public, private, real or personal property.Tagging causes blight in our community resulting in a genuine threat to the quality of life, incalculable economic losses to businesses, and can lead to the general deterioration of the area in which you live or work. The eradication of graffiti is a huge drain on the City’s resources in both cost and manpower. In most cases, the difference between graffiti being art or a crime is PERMISSION!
Totally. You just can't argue with that kind of bold, all-caps logic.
Next up: a graphic from the Newport Beach city government helping parents figure out if little Dylan or Taylor is a racist, varsity football-playing date rapist. Really, that would be even more helpful.
By Brock Keeling, Editor/SFist
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hahaha i love the drawing. i didn't realize fat markers weren't for test taking. geez.
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that information is not going to do one damn thing if not in spanish.
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I thought #2 pencils were for test-taking.
Maybe their kid is just huffing paint. Wouldn't that be a relief?
I still remember "how to tell your kid is on pot" ...smells like burning rope...
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that's hilarious - i totally thought the pic was a joke till i read the article. not like most parents would ever see their "little blessing" as a tagger though, even despite these law enforcers best attempt at letting them know how it really goes down -- "dylan just carries around a can of spray paint because he's such a gifted artist!!"
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"My son is an artist, he doesn't SNIFF markers!"
This just makes me think of that poor woman in Hesperia who tried to stop tagging and got killed for it.
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WOW in high school i had three of those things: a hooded sweater, a back pack, and art supplies. I must have been a tagger and didn't even know it !!!
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Hey wait, I had a lot of those too: spray paint, the black art book, markers ... oh, I was a tagger. Damn.
Come on, they don't make big markers for anything else.
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I was on the bus today and some stupid kids were walking along side and one of them pulls out a can of spray paint and sprays up the side windows... I wanted to jump out grab the little dirty ass and hold him till the cops came.
..but sitting in the bus still I tried calling 911 and yah it was busy...and busy...and busy...Gave up...kid gets away.
If I would of pulled out my cam fast enough I would of taken his pic and the next day put up his picture all over the area this took place with the caption "Wanted for tagging up Metro bus with spray paint"
ughh stupid kid.
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Oh c'mon, Chuck Taylors are terrible shoes to wear when running away from mall security. and a gray sweater instead of the hoodrat black? Talk about a fashion faux pas.
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You know, my kid dresses like this too - but he wears hiking boots to make it easier to get to his shack in the woods - and instead of paint cans he's writing a manifesto - whew, close call.
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Did you go to the Santa Ana website? It's pretty much a "how to become a tagger 101" - heck, back in the day, I never thought of wearing gloves to protect my hands. Thanks for the tips, guys!