On Jun 9, 12:39*am, "Graham." wrote:
I don't so much mind graffiti on boring, bare, functional concrete
walls where it's artistic (e.g. Banksy) - you see a lot of this in
Germany and it isn't really a problem. *But tagging is like carving
your name into a tree with a penknife - it's vandalism. *It's also far
worse where it is applied such that it will cause issues, e.g. across
the windows on rolling stock.

Neil



There are some tree carvings with dates in the late 50s near here in Heaton Park.
Love tokens from lads off to do National Service? I don't know, but that's how I
see them, not really vandalism, quite romantic

Odd, that if I saw a youth defacing a tree today my feelings would be very different

--
Graham.

%Profound_observation%

Taking it a stage further, the Neolitihic tombs at Maes Howe, on
Orkney, are covered with scratched graffiti from the Viking era; the
guide told me on my visit that they largely consisted of statements
like "Harald Was Here"...

Plus ca change, le plus c'est le meme chose...

In spite of that, I cannot hide my pleasure at the news that that
idiot has got his comeuppance. The most annoying thing about the
antics of idiots like him is that had he had an accident while
"tagging", who would have been liable? The railway, of course!

I suspect that he won't get a painting job at Wormwood Scrubs...