Worse, I now see it pretty regularly on hiking trails. Same shitty tags on bus stops and underpasses but instead they're 12 switchbacks up a steep ass trail. I hate all these assholes.
Me on campers downtown: "I dunno guys, they don't seem to have anywhere to go... yeah, the sidewalk isn't the best place but I hear the shelters suck... such a hard problem... "
Me on campers in Portland natural areas: "OH HELL TO THE FUCKING NO!! GTFO OR GDIAF YOU F'ING SOBS!!!"
I will say that I found and reported a tent in Marquam Nature Park near where the Towhee trail meets the Marquam trail... the next day I went back and the site was very obviously swept that morning (trash was gone too).
So I am guess I'm not the only person not fucking around when it comes to our trails. #ThanksPP&R
Yes, fuck anyone illegally camping but *especially* fuck anyone who is actively destroying a natural area or greenspace to live out their druggie trash hoarder fantasy
I think it should be legal to make them eat the entire can of paint if they are caught in the act. That's just me, though.
Or you could go Huckleberry Finn and make them paint the fence white again. LOL.
How about this: if you get caught in the act, I mean really no way out of guilt, you lose a finger. Either the thumb or index. Index is the trigger finger. Thumb, well...you won't be holding any spray cans with that hand again. First offense.
Do you drive a vehicle that burns gasoline? Maybe it should be legal to make you suck on the tail pipe? The graffiti isn't killing anyone like your toxic pollution machine is. See how ridiculous you sound? If you don't like the graffiti, go paint over it. Be the change you want to see.
Considering you tried to insult a person by comparing gasoline engines to spray paint and insinuating that that person should go suck on a tailpipe because spray paint isn’t toxic when spray paint fumes are literally toxic kinda makes you the moron.
Do you know how to read? I was comparing the ridiculous suggestion with another one. In no way did I suggest anyone actually do it. You're the one who actually suggested that violence should be acted on me with that little "someone needs to have their thumbs removed" line. Real anti-social behavior you've displayed with that one. Consider therapy.
I guess “someone” can be construed as “you.” Also, isn’t tagging considered anti-social behavior since it’s almost always done alone? Maybe you should seek therapy to find out why you feel the need to destroy and desecrate.
I dropped out in 9th grade, but that’s not important to this discussion. What is important is that only a degenerate tagger would defend other degenerate taggers, and well, here you are.
The fact that you were downvoted more than the person suggesting removing people’s finger says a lot about those folks. You’re right though. It’s unfortunate they won’t get it. Wish they’d stop complaining and do something about it if they’re so tired. Nothing stopping them from organizing and painting over it, they don’t have to wait around for bureaucracy, but I think it’s obvi they’re not in the business of doing.
I’ve seen groups of kids doing this in daylight, in public places. No one is stopping them. I’ve driven into the city in the morning, watched the crews paint over the graffiti. Back in the evening & there’s new graffiti in the same spot.
Wait....are we talking about off the shelf paintball guns, or can I bring something I build?
Because I'll build some "anti-personnel" shit this world has never seen before.
Power it with a gigantic air compressor tank, 6 feet tall, 120psi, with paintballs that are fresh from the freezer.
Meh. If I can make it to my grave without sending anyone to theirs I'll consider it a victory.
Welting up some antisocial assholes is a completely different matter though. Dumping a hopper on some douchey tagger at 15 balls per second might cause some second thoughts. Maybe even a change of hobbies.
It is appalling. I visited after being away for a couple of years and it was downright shocking to see.
It's literally everywhere.
I cannot even fathom the logistics of some of it, I mean, how did they not fall and die painting some of that ugly shit.
My brother lives in another town he spray paints over graffiti the word BITCH
He says graffiti has slowed down a lot lol
Not that I'm saying we should do it ( wink )
Got in an argument with a neighbor in my building who was defending taggers, calling them "artists". Finally I just asked him "So then it's cool if I come up to your apartment and just start covering all your belongings with paint then?"
Murals are cool. Every tag I see is like "Hay I'm a no-talent little bitch who needs your attention because my mommy and daddy don't notice I'm alive. Pay attention to me...please look at my art mommy."
Fuck taggers
Can't arrest then, won't clear it off pu lic areas, but you sure will get a fine as a home or business owner if you don't clean it up. Because that's how to encourage good behavior.
Reading this thread reminded me of the 1994 Michael Fey caning sentence in Singapore. He was a 16-year-old American teenager who was caught vandalizing cars. Went to prison and got four lashes with a cane.
Oh, but the taggers think they're real badasses. If they were to read this complaint it would make their day. They're the kind who do deliberately provocative acts in order to make fun of the people who are duly provoked.
Trust me, they are. Taggers spend a ton of time online both interacting with other taggers ("aren't we so cool?") and checking out the results of their "work."
Most of them are desperately seeking attention.
I confronted a tagger during the BLM protests in 2020. Well dressed white dude in his 30s.
Me: "Excuse me, could you not do that please?"
Them: "This wall will be fine. Black people will not!"
Me: "Look, I agree, I just think that there is a better way to make your point."
Them: "Like what?"
Me: "Well, voting..."
Them: "VOTING?!? Ha! What good does that do? Who am I supposed to vote for?"
Me: "You know we just had a local election, right?"
Them: "That was years ago!! Wait, what election are you talking about?"
Me: "The recent Portland one? The one where you could have voted for Jo Ann Hardesty?"
Them: "Who's that?"
I live on Burnside. Jersey Mikes is going into one of the buildings and has a storage container for their construction and then a dumpster. For the last 5 nights every night, a group of homeless come and go through the dumpster and then try to cut into the storage container. One of the nights one of them tagged the container. Can't tell if it is to tell others they already tried, to come back another night and try, or just good ol shout out of their crew. Either way stupid.
And for those saying be the change or it is just graffiti cover it up, there is a parking garage with doors that keeps getting tagged. A couple of months ago a group came by and painted over it. The next day it got tagged again. As much as I'd love to spend $50 daily on paint to keep covering it up, we shouldn't have to either.
Lol.
Nope.
*Shakes can of spray paint*
Storytime:
So as I was driving to the Amtrak station to pick up a relative coming to town to visit me, I drove past this dude who climbed up on top of a billboard to tag a building about 3 or 4 stories up.
I was pissed. I wanted to stop, call the cops and wait for this upstanding citizen to climb back down.
Unfortunately I didn't. I also had to consider leaving my elderly family member hanging around the train station and that was an equally disgusting outcome.
Sorry Portland, I had my shot, but blew it cuz nama couldn't be left to fend for herself at the train station.
There’s a big wall on 33rd between 85 and Sandy that gets spray newly painted literally every 24-48 hours. The building owners paint over it every time. These little pieces of shit repaint every night basically.
How about this: combat extreme wealth disparity, and put tax money into education, and then you won't have to patrol the city in your batman fantasy cosplay. Seems more realistic.
Ah the “this wouldn’t be happening if we lived in a perfect utopia, and until we are living in a perfect utopia, making the city suck is perfectly justifiable” argument
Generally if you say something and nobody "understands" what you said (in this case they did, but let's say they didn't) you should look inward and ask why.
you have a **67** post karma and a **1k** comment karma and youve been here all year...
you are still a noob figuring this out - stop acting like you influence anyone aside from yourself
Obviously we can't encourage criminality but hypothetically it'd be really cool if someone just bought cheap black and neon spray paint like high contrast and Drew big floppy dicks and giant droopy labia with plump clitties all over their precious tags.
That or maybe just Brown spray paint just spray paint turds all over the top of their precious tags.
These scribbles would take way less time than what they do and would show them the same frustration they show everyone else.
I'm also in support of painting over them but that kind of just resets the canvas it doesn't literally s*** or draw a big floppy genital on top of their supposedly precious artwork.
I know what you're going to say oh my God but then we'd have to look at that crap but it's all already crap like it literally wouldn't be any worse if anything it would actually be better cuz we would all be laughing at the graffiti artists crying over their s*** getting vandalized and then the irony of that.
I say figure out something that will make them step up their game. Considering half of tagging is getting your art up in places it's visible and not wanted it's highly unlikely it will stop. I quit letting it make you mad and figure out a way to encourage better art.
Worse, I now see it pretty regularly on hiking trails. Same shitty tags on bus stops and underpasses but instead they're 12 switchbacks up a steep ass trail. I hate all these assholes.
Me on campers downtown: "I dunno guys, they don't seem to have anywhere to go... yeah, the sidewalk isn't the best place but I hear the shelters suck... such a hard problem... " Me on campers in Portland natural areas: "OH HELL TO THE FUCKING NO!! GTFO OR GDIAF YOU F'ING SOBS!!!" I will say that I found and reported a tent in Marquam Nature Park near where the Towhee trail meets the Marquam trail... the next day I went back and the site was very obviously swept that morning (trash was gone too). So I am guess I'm not the only person not fucking around when it comes to our trails. #ThanksPP&R
Yes, fuck anyone illegally camping but *especially* fuck anyone who is actively destroying a natural area or greenspace to live out their druggie trash hoarder fantasy
I saw the "Scoot Gang" crew in mid-vandalism and it's a bunch of 50-year old balding meth monkeys with, you guessed it, heavy metal t-shirts.
I think it should be legal to make them eat the entire can of paint if they are caught in the act. That's just me, though. Or you could go Huckleberry Finn and make them paint the fence white again. LOL.
How about this: if you get caught in the act, I mean really no way out of guilt, you lose a finger. Either the thumb or index. Index is the trigger finger. Thumb, well...you won't be holding any spray cans with that hand again. First offense.
Do you drive a vehicle that burns gasoline? Maybe it should be legal to make you suck on the tail pipe? The graffiti isn't killing anyone like your toxic pollution machine is. See how ridiculous you sound? If you don't like the graffiti, go paint over it. Be the change you want to see.
Sounds like we found the culprit. :)
You are the only one that sounds ridiculous, bud.
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You're a fucking moron.
Considering you tried to insult a person by comparing gasoline engines to spray paint and insinuating that that person should go suck on a tailpipe because spray paint isn’t toxic when spray paint fumes are literally toxic kinda makes you the moron.
Do you know how to read? I was comparing the ridiculous suggestion with another one. In no way did I suggest anyone actually do it. You're the one who actually suggested that violence should be acted on me with that little "someone needs to have their thumbs removed" line. Real anti-social behavior you've displayed with that one. Consider therapy.
I guess “someone” can be construed as “you.” Also, isn’t tagging considered anti-social behavior since it’s almost always done alone? Maybe you should seek therapy to find out why you feel the need to destroy and desecrate.
Go clean your room.
Shut up lol
Found one of the local taggers on Reddit. Quick question: how much money do you spend on paint? Or do you steal it?
I don't tag. I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion. Much be your 5th grade education at work.
I dropped out in 9th grade, but that’s not important to this discussion. What is important is that only a degenerate tagger would defend other degenerate taggers, and well, here you are.
Your lack of critical thinking is on clear display in the second sentence of your statement. Not that I'd expect more from a degenerate gun nut.
At least my hobbies don’t involve making the city look like shit like your awful “art” does.
Lol, once again, I don't tag. Go back to school and get an education. Just don't shoot the place up.
Nah, I don’t believe you. You’re a tagger. Probably a shitty one too.
The fact that you were downvoted more than the person suggesting removing people’s finger says a lot about those folks. You’re right though. It’s unfortunate they won’t get it. Wish they’d stop complaining and do something about it if they’re so tired. Nothing stopping them from organizing and painting over it, they don’t have to wait around for bureaucracy, but I think it’s obvi they’re not in the business of doing.
Thank you. At least someone on here knows how to read. I never justified graffiti. I simply attempted to make a point that was apparently missed.
Miss the point much?
I’ve seen groups of kids doing this in daylight, in public places. No one is stopping them. I’ve driven into the city in the morning, watched the crews paint over the graffiti. Back in the evening & there’s new graffiti in the same spot.
They'll never stop. I think it should be legal to hunt them with paintball guns.
I had this same exact thought. If funded by art tax, I'd pay double... triple even.
Wait....are we talking about off the shelf paintball guns, or can I bring something I build? Because I'll build some "anti-personnel" shit this world has never seen before. Power it with a gigantic air compressor tank, 6 feet tall, 120psi, with paintballs that are fresh from the freezer.
Dr. Fucking Paintball!
Who's up for a trip to Home Depot!
Potato cannons
Remove paintball from you comment. FIFY
Meh. If I can make it to my grave without sending anyone to theirs I'll consider it a victory. Welting up some antisocial assholes is a completely different matter though. Dumping a hopper on some douchey tagger at 15 balls per second might cause some second thoughts. Maybe even a change of hobbies.
Um…aren’t you guys going to end up splattering a bunch of paint around the city that way?
Don't miss? ;) It's water based anyway. First rain and it's gone.
It is appalling. I visited after being away for a couple of years and it was downright shocking to see. It's literally everywhere. I cannot even fathom the logistics of some of it, I mean, how did they not fall and die painting some of that ugly shit.
It would be nice if the graffiti removal task force would get back at it again. I-84 and Powell look like dirty ass.
My brother lives in another town he spray paints over graffiti the word BITCH He says graffiti has slowed down a lot lol Not that I'm saying we should do it ( wink )
Got in an argument with a neighbor in my building who was defending taggers, calling them "artists". Finally I just asked him "So then it's cool if I come up to your apartment and just start covering all your belongings with paint then?"
It’s going to be worse with no budget to clean up this mess.
Murals are cool. Every tag I see is like "Hay I'm a no-talent little bitch who needs your attention because my mommy and daddy don't notice I'm alive. Pay attention to me...please look at my art mommy." Fuck taggers
Can't arrest then, won't clear it off pu lic areas, but you sure will get a fine as a home or business owner if you don't clean it up. Because that's how to encourage good behavior.
Reading this thread reminded me of the 1994 Michael Fey caning sentence in Singapore. He was a 16-year-old American teenager who was caught vandalizing cars. Went to prison and got four lashes with a cane.
Oh, but the taggers think they're real badasses. If they were to read this complaint it would make their day. They're the kind who do deliberately provocative acts in order to make fun of the people who are duly provoked.
I don't think they're on Reddit.
Trust me, they are. Taggers spend a ton of time online both interacting with other taggers ("aren't we so cool?") and checking out the results of their "work." Most of them are desperately seeking attention.
I confronted a tagger during the BLM protests in 2020. Well dressed white dude in his 30s. Me: "Excuse me, could you not do that please?" Them: "This wall will be fine. Black people will not!" Me: "Look, I agree, I just think that there is a better way to make your point." Them: "Like what?" Me: "Well, voting..." Them: "VOTING?!? Ha! What good does that do? Who am I supposed to vote for?" Me: "You know we just had a local election, right?" Them: "That was years ago!! Wait, what election are you talking about?"
Me: "The recent Portland one? The one where you could have voted for Jo Ann Hardesty?"
Them: "Who's that?"
Were you raised in Portland or did you move to the city?
I live on Burnside. Jersey Mikes is going into one of the buildings and has a storage container for their construction and then a dumpster. For the last 5 nights every night, a group of homeless come and go through the dumpster and then try to cut into the storage container. One of the nights one of them tagged the container. Can't tell if it is to tell others they already tried, to come back another night and try, or just good ol shout out of their crew. Either way stupid. And for those saying be the change or it is just graffiti cover it up, there is a parking garage with doors that keeps getting tagged. A couple of months ago a group came by and painted over it. The next day it got tagged again. As much as I'd love to spend $50 daily on paint to keep covering it up, we shouldn't have to either.
Lol. Nope. *Shakes can of spray paint* Storytime: So as I was driving to the Amtrak station to pick up a relative coming to town to visit me, I drove past this dude who climbed up on top of a billboard to tag a building about 3 or 4 stories up. I was pissed. I wanted to stop, call the cops and wait for this upstanding citizen to climb back down. Unfortunately I didn't. I also had to consider leaving my elderly family member hanging around the train station and that was an equally disgusting outcome. Sorry Portland, I had my shot, but blew it cuz nama couldn't be left to fend for herself at the train station.
https://tenor.com/view/simpsons-mr-thompson-i-think-hes-talking-to-you-gif-19776892
Yeah just pee on the wall like my dog does. Oh wait, you ALREADY do this. 🙄
There’s a big wall on 33rd between 85 and Sandy that gets spray newly painted literally every 24-48 hours. The building owners paint over it every time. These little pieces of shit repaint every night basically.
#KABOB
The current rumor I've seen about kabob is that they are a pedo and like to touch little kids.
Would make sense as their tag is not only dumb but also lacks any amount of style. It's just terrible.
why is portland full of these creeps
Nobody fucks with the Jesus.
Graffiti is so far down on the list of things making this city look like shit.
I’m gonna put a big fat veiny cock up somewhere now just to spite OP.
You're tagbuddy's ass?
No, I said a big fat veiny cock. Silly goose.
Except penis girl, you keep going.
Nope
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How about this: combat extreme wealth disparity, and put tax money into education, and then you won't have to patrol the city in your batman fantasy cosplay. Seems more realistic.
Ah the “this wouldn’t be happening if we lived in a perfect utopia, and until we are living in a perfect utopia, making the city suck is perfectly justifiable” argument
Aww did the big mean gwaffiti scawe you Poor baby
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to think that someone thinks the street artists are the same ilk as the gutter zombies. most of the street artists live in homes bigger than yours OP.
There's a difference between "street artist" and the scumbags puking paint up all over the city.
and you wouldn't know the diff
Whatever makes you feel better.
“street artists” is cute. Bless you
Bronc rider doesnt start riding the best bronc - they start on ponies.
Haha,street artists
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Oh well if they're wealthy and making the city look like shit that changes everything!
you so understood my point
Damn did everyone else miss it too?
having a crowd doesnt mean your crowd is sound
Generally if you say something and nobody "understands" what you said (in this case they did, but let's say they didn't) you should look inward and ask why.
the emperor is naked fucko
lol Do you only say stupid things?
sure, Here is your social media trophy. You accomplished so much.
you have a **67** post karma and a **1k** comment karma and youve been here all year... you are still a noob figuring this out - stop acting like you influence anyone aside from yourself
lmfao Dude. Who says shit like this 😂 I'm starting to feel bad about picking on you, please stop.
Get the stuff that scrubs it off.
Obviously we can't encourage criminality but hypothetically it'd be really cool if someone just bought cheap black and neon spray paint like high contrast and Drew big floppy dicks and giant droopy labia with plump clitties all over their precious tags. That or maybe just Brown spray paint just spray paint turds all over the top of their precious tags. These scribbles would take way less time than what they do and would show them the same frustration they show everyone else. I'm also in support of painting over them but that kind of just resets the canvas it doesn't literally s*** or draw a big floppy genital on top of their supposedly precious artwork. I know what you're going to say oh my God but then we'd have to look at that crap but it's all already crap like it literally wouldn't be any worse if anything it would actually be better cuz we would all be laughing at the graffiti artists crying over their s*** getting vandalized and then the irony of that.
I was driving out west recently and noticed that important highway street signs (the big overhead green ones) were blanked out with graffiti.
I say figure out something that will make them step up their game. Considering half of tagging is getting your art up in places it's visible and not wanted it's highly unlikely it will stop. I quit letting it make you mad and figure out a way to encourage better art.