WWeek.com--
These are the questions that Commissioner Randy Leonard will have the clerks asking if he has it his way under a proposed anti-tagging ordnance.
Leonard, wants to make people of any age show ID when they buy spray paint & businesses would have to keep records for several months of who bought the paint and what color they bought in order to benefit police investigating graffiti.
Retailers who fail to comply would face fines as high as $20,000.
2 comments:
Why, oh why do some people want to solve all our problems by passing a law? Did he stop to think that the people doing the tagging have cars and they can cross the river and get all the paint they want? Then, some 50 year old guy trying to touch up some paint around the house gets hassled!
Are you stinking kidding me?!?!?!?!
Another micro-management move by city gov't to make the rest of us pay for what a few do.
What's to prevent me from going to Vancouver to get spray paint?? Give me a break. Does Leonard actually think that this move will curtail tagging?? Moron.
The solution is simple:
People who "Tag" (Talking taggers here, not gang tagings...different animal all together) do it for the recognition. I say we give them the recognition they crave. When caught, their name and mug shot should be blazened on a billboard. News crews could do stories regarding thetaggers community service sentencing.....like cleaning public toilets, etc.
Give 'em the recognition they crave, and make 'em pay for clean-up.
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