The “Cultural Enrichment” one is actually pretty funny. Tagging, of course, is something only a complete douche canoe would do.

I’m not really sure what you expect of the Police though? There are rather a lot of fences in Canberra. Do you want them to watch them all, all the time?

Yes… I second the notion. Lets fund a full-time police presence in the “floodway/nature reserve” at a triffling cost of only, say, an additional couple of hundred thousand dollars a year.

Money well spent, especially as the offenders, if caught, will receive such substantial and meaningful punishment.

$200,000 plus the cost of the Segway

We been over this before. Tagging is the most pointless, unartistic and talentless form of graffiti.

I’m quite impressed that they spelt ‘cultural enrichment’ correctly! They may be dumb arses to think that graffiti is ‘good” but at least they can spell correctly!

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :

We been over this before. Tagging is the most pointless, unartistic and talentless form of graffiti.

+ a billion.

Here’s what happens in Gungahlin when kids are board

Stiff?

Ben_Dover said :

Here’s what happens in Gungahlin when kids are board

Stiff?

Planking?

Ben_Dover said :

Here’s what happens in Gungahlin when kids are board

Stiff?

Planking?

So is the OP familiar with the saying, they have to be successful only once, we have to be successful every time.

It only takes a couple of minutes to do a tag, Police can’t be everywhere so perhaps focus you’re anger on those who actually perpetrate the crime.

If you catch someone “tagging”, remove their spray can from them, and tag them with it. Several times. Make sure to tag their hair.

c_c™ said :

So is the OP familiar with the saying, they have to be successful only once, we have to be successful every time.

It only takes a couple of minutes to do a tag, Police can’t be everywhere so perhaps focus you’re anger on those who actually perpetrate the crime.

I would, but I cant find them. When police have been notified and are in today’s paper discussing how quiet things sometimes are – and when this is happening every Friday night, which they also know, I don’t think the occasional drive-by is unreasonable.

Bare in mind that these are only the photos that I could be bothered walking to for the purpose of this whinge – without seeing it, you can’t possibly understand the cesspool that Palmerston has become. The school, the shops, the bus stops, private fences, and anyone unfortunate enough to have a wall that can be reached from outside their fence.

If the ACT Govt isn’t going to fund the police to take care of it, they could at least quit with the excuse that the outside of the fence (on the “council side”) is still private properly, and thus won’t be addressed by Fix My Street.

mantraps with punji sticks

You’re complaining that police are too busy with petty crime, but you want them to spend time investigating this petty crime?

Ben_Dover said :

Here’s what happens in Gungahlin when kids are board

Stiff?

Planking?

thebrownstreak69 said :

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :

We been over this before. Tagging is the most pointless, unartistic and talentless form of graffiti.

+ a billion.

Plus a trillion.

gungsuperstar said :

c_c™ said :

So is the OP familiar with the saying, they have to be successful only once, we have to be successful every time.

It only takes a couple of minutes to do a tag, Police can’t be everywhere so perhaps focus you’re anger on those who actually perpetrate the crime.

I would, but I cant find them. When police have been notified and are in today’s paper discussing how quiet things sometimes are – and when this is happening every Friday night, which they also know, I don’t think the occasional drive-by is unreasonable.

Bare in mind that these are only the photos that I could be bothered walking to for the purpose of this whinge – without seeing it, you can’t possibly understand the cesspool that Palmerston has become. The school, the shops, the bus stops, private fences, and anyone unfortunate enough to have a wall that can be reached from outside their fence.

If the ACT Govt isn’t going to fund the police to take care of it, they could at least quit with the excuse that the outside of the fence (on the “council side”) is still private properly, and thus won’t be addressed by Fix My Street.

i doubt the quiet periods are ever on friday night.

As for the original post, i hardly consider taking drunk drivers off our roads a waste of resources either. Im sorry but the tags fall a fair bit behind saving peoples lives

I agree that tags are lame and stupid, but as long as it’s not racist epithets or the like I don’t really give a crap about graffiti. Tagging like this is probably literally the least notable or response worthy crime possible, and it hurts no-one. It annoys people, aggravates those that idolise aesthetics, but it doesn’t actually harm anybody.

KB1971 said :

Planking?

Kids these days need an older school style of planking.

Living in Ngunnawal is starting to be like living in a ghetto – Since I have lived here for several years the graffiti keeps growing – The tagging of fences along side roads looks disgusting – Unfortunately the ACT government will do nothing to remove graffiti – Just look at the Ngunnawal shops Sign – I guess it is little wonder that the shops have been held up at least 4 times and the DVD shop closed down for this reasoned – Makes me wonder why I pay taxes for ??? If kids can get away with tagging public and private property what will they try next – I wish there was something that could be done about graffiti removal.

If you catch them and beat the f*** out of them, they won’t do it again

slashdot said :

If you catch them and beat the f*** out of them, they won’t do it again

Let’s hope the police take the same approach to you when the kids you beat the f*** out of report you.

Swaggie said :

I’m quite impressed that they spelt ‘cultural enrichment’ correctly! They may be dumb arses to think that graffiti is ‘good” but at least they can spell correctly!

The taggers are better spellers than the OP.

Gungahlin population = around 50,000
Police cars patrolling = one or two

And you wonder why petty crime isn’t being nipped in the bud?