stiffler- Wrong. I used to do graffiti and education, family income and everything else that you mentioned did not apply to myself along with many of my friends. One solution that was successfully employed down there was they coated many surfaces with an oily substance. Markers simply beaded up and spray paint would wipe off. They also used many other tactics and eventually most grow up. Graffiti has definitely been on the decline the past decade, even in Orlando, you just don't see it with minor exceptions. Big cities with bustling down towns might still face the issue, I'm just surprised it's still an issue because with game consoles, internet, cell phones, cars, etc, there is just so many more entertaining things to do and vent with.
Orlando? Uh, you were just being a dipshit imitating the urban underclass because you wanted to be cool. Grafitti is definitely a problem here in NYC, and not because of rich kids trying to be fashionable.
"stiffler- Wrong. I used to do graffiti and education, family income and everything else that you mentioned did not apply to myself along with many of my friends."
So, just because you were a slightly better-off and better-educated scofflaw dickwad means that I'm wrong? Certainly, there's no controlling for sheer all-out dickwad-ness, which no doubt abounds in suburbia, and certainly in Florida, but I would argue-- and I think most would agree-- that urban crime like graffiti largely occurs in (get this!) urban areas. Urban areas that are, largely, poorer, uneducated, and otherwise deprived of the social resources you enjoyed but apparently ignored.
"One solution that was successfully employed down there was they coated many surfaces with an oily substance. Markers simply beaded up and spray paint would wipe off. They also used many other tactics and eventually most grow up."
The problem is, Rick, that other prepubescent dickwads grow up to become teenage dickwads who then take the place of the post-pubescent dickwads, who themselves have discovered that graffiti, while a gratifying form of urban art, doesn't pay very well, and the grants are hard to come by.
"Big cities with bustling down towns might still face the issue, I'm just surprised it's still an issue because with game consoles, internet, cell phones, cars, etc, there is just so many more entertaining things to do and vent with."
Because, genius, it's because those "big bustling down towns" in those big cities are filled with-- get this-- poor people with no education and no options. So they join gangs and deal drugs and learn to survive in the only ways they know how. It may shock you to realize that graffiti is connected with this brand of crime. Surely by addressing the root causes of this crime would be productive, no? Or should we just hope the drug dealers and their buddies just "grow out of it?"
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stiffler- Wrong. I used to do graffiti and education, family income and everything else that you mentioned did not apply to myself along with many of my friends. One solution that was successfully employed down there was they coated many surfaces with an oily substance. Markers simply beaded up and spray paint would wipe off. They also used many other tactics and eventually most grow up. Graffiti has definitely been on the decline the past decade, even in Orlando, you just don't see it with minor exceptions. Big cities with bustling down towns might still face the issue, I'm just surprised it's still an issue because with game consoles, internet, cell phones, cars, etc, there is just so many more entertaining things to do and vent with.
Orlando? Uh, you were just being a dipshit imitating the urban underclass because you wanted to be cool. Grafitti is definitely a problem here in NYC, and not because of rich kids trying to be fashionable.
"stiffler- Wrong. I used to do graffiti and education, family income and everything else that you mentioned did not apply to myself along with many of my friends."
So, just because you were a slightly better-off and better-educated scofflaw dickwad means that I'm wrong? Certainly, there's no controlling for sheer all-out dickwad-ness, which no doubt abounds in suburbia, and certainly in Florida, but I would argue-- and I think most would agree-- that urban crime like graffiti largely occurs in (get this!) urban areas. Urban areas that are, largely, poorer, uneducated, and otherwise deprived of the social resources you enjoyed but apparently ignored.
"One solution that was successfully employed down there was they coated many surfaces with an oily substance. Markers simply beaded up and spray paint would wipe off. They also used many other tactics and eventually most grow up."
The problem is, Rick, that other prepubescent dickwads grow up to become teenage dickwads who then take the place of the post-pubescent dickwads, who themselves have discovered that graffiti, while a gratifying form of urban art, doesn't pay very well, and the grants are hard to come by.
"Big cities with bustling down towns might still face the issue, I'm just surprised it's still an issue because with game consoles, internet, cell phones, cars, etc, there is just so many more entertaining things to do and vent with."
Because, genius, it's because those "big bustling down towns" in those big cities are filled with-- get this-- poor people with no education and no options. So they join gangs and deal drugs and learn to survive in the only ways they know how. It may shock you to realize that graffiti is connected with this brand of crime. Surely by addressing the root causes of this crime would be productive, no? Or should we just hope the drug dealers and their buddies just "grow out of it?"