Graffiti of the lowest form.

Must be using a spell checker, they also know that its not ok to post without!
Cheers Pesty

mmmmmmm - no spelling mistakes!

I spell liar " LIAR" not " LIA" and plunder " PLUNDER" not "PLUNDA" - maybe it is just a Kiwi thing :-)

Thats Kiwi talk KiwiAngler.. choice bro.. LOL LOL

Richard

I always reckoned us Kiwis speak the good England :-) :-)

"Its my experience that the most vocal pro-indigenous rights advocates tend to be the dreadlocked professional protester fringe." Oh, you mean like the bald headed rock stars that make a living off another people's cause then sell their soul to the devil?


Still, no matter who wrote it, it displays a total lack of intelligence. I hate graffiti more than I hate peas.

Louie

louie

i like peas!!!!.........:-)

You think not? I & many others would disagree with you Dunco. Graffiti here in Newcastle is pretty bad & it is topic of conversation amongst us locals, & in our local papers, radio & TV.

Apart from being an eyesore, the cost of cleaning up a "little" graffiti is paid for out of either our rates & taxes or added on as an overhead by the many businesses that have to clean this mess up of their premises.

And as to it being a LOW act ? Yes it is without doubt, particularly when we see it on the memorials to those who fought & died for us.

Dunco
for a starter My heading was "Graffiti of the lowest form" and nowhere did I say it is worse than the crimes you mentioned , I stress the first word....Graffiti, and yes it really annoys me to see it on trains and fences etc but as someone else said in NSW the law is to lenient, and when people deface memorials to our fallen that is the lowest act , and when I say "Fallen" that includes our Allies as was Strauss , he was defending Darwin when he lost his life ,

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Yeah. Really fast clean up is the best way to deal with graffiti. It takes all the fun out of putting it up when no one can see it. And I wish we could remove the names some idiots carve/paint into rocks as well.

Pictures of the graffiti are now posted on this web site so perpetrators are getting free world wide coverage. Better than they could have hoped for ,whether they know it or not.

Food for thought....was it worth posting the images in the first place? We all know graffiti is bad. Is advertising another example going to make any difference?

Cheers
Greg

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Richard you should really let a few of these "opportunities" go by.

You are letting yourself down.

But the images are shown here in context, with the views of many Australians attached. Likely to do more damage than good to the Artist's cause in my view.

And there is also a picture and detailed story in the NT News(link in original post), both print and web versions, so it is already 'out there'. Are you suggesting they also should not have reported this, Explorer and Richard.

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Mfewster, as you say re carving into rocks, same goes for trees. I remember as a kid, up the river in the 70's, it was quite a common thing for people of my parent's generation (I'm 44), including my dad I admit, to do things like that. It was acceptable then but certainly not now. I'm glad things changed. We just need to keep the ball rolling.

My wife busted our kids painting on our back fence behind the garage once. She let them have it big time and they had to clean it off. It taught them a big lesson. They now share our attitudes - Protect and Preserve.

Louie

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“Are you suggesting they also should not have reported this, Explorer and …”

No not really – don’t care either way, just putting the subject up for discussion/thought. I was following on from Mfewster (SA)'s comment that the best way to deal with Graffiti in a public place is to remove it ASAP (very true). I just found it ironic that now the pictures are available on the internet and are getting more coverage than the perpetrators could have ever hoped for. Obviously acts of vandalism must be reported, though there could be an argument for not distributing the actual images in most instances.

In this case, if the graffiti was removed promptly and never reported I reckon the people who did it would be far more peeved off than they would be seeing their handiwork in the paper and on the internet along with the profound comments about how bad they are and how they should be punished. They would be laughing if they read this forum thread (I was last night).

Publicising examples of vandalism may help catch the crims and does obviously help instil a feeling in the community that may flow on and influence the decision making process of some who may contemplate a future crime – so there is also value in reporting it...though not sure pictures of the actaul crime are 100% needed in all cases.

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Greg

Good points Greg - exposure and reaction is what the perpetrators are usually looking for. To publish numerous pictures gives the publicity they could only dream of, and incites the emotions of the public in exactly the way it was intended.

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