You know, it seems like walls, freeways, buildings, structures, signs, buses and trains get the nasty ugly ink the most. It's crazy how some aspiring artists think that if there is a bare space that it's an open field day to anyone who has a can of spray paint that they can just go create some sordid design that may or may not be art. After all, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Regardless, if it's not your property then go write and mark up your own belongings. All the world is not your canvas beckoning your call to create your self-proclaimed work of art.
While nearly every city should provide graffiti removal at no additional cost, I say, 'No additional cost," because we all pay for that service out of taxpayer money. But if you see a mass mess of ink on some public city-owned property, please---call your local city hall and ask for their graffiti removal hot line.
Usually you start the website search with, "City of Podunk Pun" or whatever the city the lovely piece of unsolicited artwork may be featured, and then it will be under their maintenance or public works or simply, "Graffiti Removal" section of that city's web page. Then give 'em a holler and tell 'em that someone didn't do their parenting job very well and forgot to give their kid a piece of paper and crayon so all of that penned up creative energy is being splish splashed all over your town and you want it removed before it encourages other wannabe da Vinci artists to display their form of art next to or right over the newest edition. You know this line of work is highly competitive.
Nothing makes a town or neighborhood more shotty than to see this sort of eyesore. So expedience to get this taken care of is of the utmost importance. Especially since our hard-working tax dollars don't have to go to special graffiti removal services more than absolutely necessary. What this means is if we as concern citizens for a more aesthetically pleasing neighborhood or town make so much as a phone call to notify our city that this graffiti exists, just as soon as you see it, like run don't walk to your nearest phone and make that call today. It will be handled quickly because the city doesn't want to have to clean up more graffiti than it has to and it will have a lot more to deal with, which means a lot more manpower and a lot more expense, if the existing piece of artwork doesn't get removed, like yesterday, ---then today and tomorrow, other aspiring taggers will add to the existing pieces of talent to compete for first place.
In the meantime, I provided a link to a company who is in the biz of getting rid of the "artwork" with industrial strength product. They even have volunteer kits for those of you who would consider yourselves, "Citizens for an Aesthetically More Appealing Planet." Whatever the case may be, do your part and step up to clean up any mess, even though you didn't do it and there are other people who get paid to do it...Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. Or at the very least don't delay make that call today. Instead of complaining, we need to do our part to keep our towns and areas clean and visually appealing not inviting some self-proclaimed Michelangelos to decimate any wall, bus or what-have-you, at random.
This has been a Public Service Announcement for Grounding Graffiti and showing no mercy to it. As far as to its creators or "Taggers" as they are often referred. They can get fined, jailed and more. But this link explains how graffiti affects and hurts people, prevention and enforcing laws that are made and passed to deal with this problem, which again, it ain't cheap, folks.
Here's a link to those consequences and how this is a serious problem that is not to be written off....yes, pun was intended. Da da da---
http://www.graffitiremovalinc.com/
http://www.graffitihurts.org/getfacts/faq.jsp
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