🚀 go-pugleaf

This is nothing new for CA, really, but it is relatively new for TX and
"strangely enough", the problem has skyrocketed as more Mexicans, other
related types and illegals have poured into the state ( wonder why? ;)!

Note that the funding for this "cover it up" effort comes from sources
which, in turn, are actually repaid by *taxpayers*!  So, in the end,
taxpayers get the proverbial shaft, as usual, even as they are duped into
believing that someone else is "paying the piper". ;-)

Every year, this sort of "constant tagging battle" amounts to several
hundred thousand dollars worth of "cover it up" expenses, which taxpayers
will ultimately be *stabbed* with.

Wow, who can possibly doubt the "community value" of these "wonderful"
brown skinned "Picassos" and illegals? ;-)

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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/052006dnmetgraffiti.5c00263.html

Volunteers combat graffiti

06:12 PM CDT on Saturday, May 20, 2006

By DAVE LEVINTHAL / The Dallas Morning News

Wielding brushes as big as their forearms, 5-year-old twins Jesus and
Francisco Solis slopped stroke after stoke of gray primer on the
graffiti-riddled wall. 

�Paint over the black!� their mother, Mia Medrano, encouraged from nearby
as she helped her daughter, 8-year-old Karina Solis, remove the spray
painted word �PIZZA� from a squat cinderblock building at Greenville and
Ross avenues. 

While many of their friends were playing video games or watching Saturday
morning kids shows, dozens of children worked among about 700 volunteers
who scrubbed, scoured and shellacked more than 200 Dallas buildings free
of graffiti, from Oak Cliff to Lake Highlands. 

Officials billed the citywide �Graffiti Wipe Out 2006,� as the first event
ever of its kind in Dallas. 

Private companies and community organizations donated more than $40,000 in
supplies to combat �tagging,� which community activists say lowers
property values and degrades neighborhoods. 

The activity coincides with increased efforts at City Hall to stop
graffiti proliferation, including an ordinance the City Council passed
this month allowing police to arrest people carrying spray paint and other
graffiti implements - even if they haven�t tagged anything. The penalty? A
misdemeanor charge that carries a $500 fine. 

In Deep Ellum, paint-flecked council member Angela Hunt had just helped a
team of volunteers coat a graffiti-covered building with fresh paint when
she spied a man writing �fantastica� in permanent marker on a nearby wall.

Ms. Hunt called the police. Within minutes, they arrested the man. 

�It�s a constant battle. You have to keep cleaning it up and staying
vigilant,� Ms. Hunt said. �And if you see a graffiti vandal, you should
treat it like any other criminal act and call 911.�