None of us can afford rent or food but sure this is the thing we’ll all be mad about today
Don’t we all have bigger fish to fry
What a joke. Why are they spending even more money on cleaning up after the vandals, when they should really focus on stopping vandalism in the first place?
Could you imagine Singapore metro having a separate (and rising) budget for graffiti cleaning? Of course not – shit just gets nipped in the bud there and authorities are not allergic to enforcing rules.
There are people visiting from around Europe to paint them, knowing they’ll get bang for their buck. And some of the people coming out of retirement to join in too must be pushing 50?
….just a pitch….why bother removing it at all? I get if it’s like swear words or whatever, but otherwise aren’t you just wasting money?
I was in Japan and South Korea for most of November and came back recently. The first public transportation I took was the central line, and it made me quite sad due to the graffiti. I’ve seen my fair share but this was quite extreme with fatter fonts (markers?) being used. There were lots of writings all over the cartridge I was on – the walls, the floors, and the windows (?). One of the ladies asked me why people do this and I was pretty much speechless before she got out of the train saying “it’s very sad that they do this”.
Not every country is perfect but this stuff is just not needed.
£66m estimated uk market size of spray paint. £1bn annually at least for graffiti clear up. As little as £2.50 to buy a can off amazon
Never seen an as clear case for serious sale restrictions as this. We do it for other negative externalities to society so why not spray paint?
I don’t understand why these arse-hats what to make everywhere look like a shitty slum ghetto.
If you have artistic talent, go to one on the many spaces that allow mural painting – you might even get a commission out of it
Genuinely worried for this country. Where do we go from here :/
I worked for a company that supplied security and cleaning to the London Underground. The ‘scrotes’ as we called them would often dress as maintenance workers to try and go un-noticed. But the biggest disincentive to the vandalism wasn’t the security it was that a graffiti train would be taken out of service and cleaned, robbing the scrote of their glory.
There was a surprising diversity among the scrotes we caught. One was an actual medical doctor.
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I’d rather see a million more tags than another single one of those Ricky Gervais adverts.
Weird how ‘insides’ disappeared for 20 years then just returned with a bang.
When you have no sufficient police presence and no fear of breaking the law this what you get
I hope that vandals are caught and prosecuted!
Graffiti, and all the costs involved in removing and rectifying, costs the UK public roughly the same as asylum hotels.
Why is this not bigger news? We are struggling as a country economically, and this is just eating up the coffers.
Edited: [Back in 2010 it cost us over £1 billion, and that’s direct costs. I can only imagine it’s minimum 4x now (sorry for the soft Paywalled article).](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/nov/09/graffiti-art-divides-council-opinion)
None of us can afford rent or food but sure this is the thing we’ll all be mad about today
Don’t we all have bigger fish to fry
What a joke. Why are they spending even more money on cleaning up after the vandals, when they should really focus on stopping vandalism in the first place?
Could you imagine Singapore metro having a separate (and rising) budget for graffiti cleaning? Of course not – shit just gets nipped in the bud there and authorities are not allergic to enforcing rules.
There are people visiting from around Europe to paint them, knowing they’ll get bang for their buck. And some of the people coming out of retirement to join in too must be pushing 50?
….just a pitch….why bother removing it at all? I get if it’s like swear words or whatever, but otherwise aren’t you just wasting money?
I was in Japan and South Korea for most of November and came back recently. The first public transportation I took was the central line, and it made me quite sad due to the graffiti. I’ve seen my fair share but this was quite extreme with fatter fonts (markers?) being used. There were lots of writings all over the cartridge I was on – the walls, the floors, and the windows (?). One of the ladies asked me why people do this and I was pretty much speechless before she got out of the train saying “it’s very sad that they do this”.
Not every country is perfect but this stuff is just not needed.
£66m estimated uk market size of spray paint. £1bn annually at least for graffiti clear up. As little as £2.50 to buy a can off amazon
Never seen an as clear case for serious sale restrictions as this. We do it for other negative externalities to society so why not spray paint?
I don’t understand why these arse-hats what to make everywhere look like a shitty slum ghetto.
If you have artistic talent, go to one on the many spaces that allow mural painting – you might even get a commission out of it
Genuinely worried for this country. Where do we go from here :/
I worked for a company that supplied security and cleaning to the London Underground. The ‘scrotes’ as we called them would often dress as maintenance workers to try and go un-noticed. But the biggest disincentive to the vandalism wasn’t the security it was that a graffiti train would be taken out of service and cleaned, robbing the scrote of their glory.
There was a surprising diversity among the scrotes we caught. One was an actual medical doctor.
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