Well done Mr. Mayor.
There are a multitude of walls and various other surfaces in Diep River
for these 'wanna be gangstas' to practise their 'art' on.
Why is it that they come to Obsevatory? Is Obs '_*the'*_ location for
these '/practitioners'/?
Can people like the lady owner of the wall be persuaded to re consider
the decision to allow the continuing _infantilizing_ of our neighbourhood?
I like the white paint given to the tagger to erase his own mess. i for
one am looking forward to the first prosecution. It will add much weight
to our intention to take back (the streets of) Obs. And the OBSID's
intention to make Obs Safer, _Cleaner_, Smarter.
Kris
Brian Amery wrote:
On Monday the Mayor spotted a bunch of youngsters in Herman Road - a
grafitti and tagging mess of note - and informed them of the price of
R1000 on the heads of taggers. Three boys from Strubens Road, they
seemed to be impressed with the size of the bounty and agreed to keep
me informed.
The next day two youngsters kind of measuring up - in the design
phase.
Wednesday we hit pay dirt, they are there spraying their tiny cans
out. Call VS on the newly working radios, call SAPS on radios,
cellphones and pigeon, Jonathan is there, and the ever present
Patrick. Spring the trap. Gotham.
One of them runs. The other stands his ground. "He has permission".
"Who from?"
"I don't know"
"What's the address?"
"I don't know but I can take you there"
So we go there and the resident concerned confirms that she has given
permission to paint on her wall. When I ask her why, she tells me that
she never goes there, its her back wall, so it doesn't matter to her.
She does however confirm that she wouldn't allow it on her front wall
as that "wouldn't be nice".
We get the perp some white paint and make him deface his own grafitti.
We have his name and address and his mother's cell number but she
doesn't answer - I wonder why. Diep River boy. Not Diep enough.
Meanwhile the runner has run to a Touch of Madness, hidden himself
behind the dustbin and called for reinforcements in the form of Mummy
and an antipodean step-father who was only missing the corks on the
hat to be completely authentic. Andrew has found the boy's camera and
played back the video of the artists at work. Bruce arrives and throws
about his considerable weight and in order to get rid of them all,
Andrew returns the camera.
Bruce next comes hunting for the mayor and finds me at the scene of
the crime.
Certain character assessments were exchanged. I could see that a
verbal war was not going to get me anywhere. So I asked him to take
his disfunctional step-son back to Diep River and teach him something
useful, like cricket, if he knew how to play.
I then left - quickly!
Joys of being the mayor
Brian
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