April 22, 2008
See You Later, Crater Gator
Pedaling to the train station this morning, we noticed a few fluorescent additions to the asphalt: bright stencils of monstrous creatures calling attention to the various pits and potholes of Townsend Street. We would have snapped our own picture of the menacing neon jaws and claws, but because we were booted from the 8:44 bike car twice last week, we preferred not to dawdle. There are more pictures on Flickr and video on NBC11's website (warning: mandatory Al Pacino preview may be off-putting).
It was, of course, the work of the Bike Coalition: 50 or so volunteers met near City Hall on Saturday and spread out across the city looking for dangerous divots. Our Dolores Park correspondent reported seeing random pedestrians holding up automobile traffic at the intersection of 18th and Church, so that SFBC volunteers could safely stencil. There's nothing like a little sanctioned graffiti to bring out pedestrian-cyclist solidarity!
We have only two questions:
1. Who is the artist who made those stencils? Those are some excellent monster fingers.
2. Why is there graffiti all over everything EXCEPT the road surface itself and also cars? If we were taggers, we definitely would not be able to resist a shiny automobile.
photo by Kate McCarthy
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How uncharacteristically cool and non-obnoxious of the SFBC. Even motorists will love it.
How did the 18th/Church crew miss the toddler-sized divot at Dolores and Cumberland?
Tagging (or otherwise valdalizing) cars is a lot more likely to stir up a law enforcement response than tagging buildings or buses.
I don't even own a car anymore, and the thought of tagged cars is offensive.
I expect that it's a more selfish motive--taggers are more likely to own a car than a building. Funny that they don't tag their ride...
One less tagger
I had my car tagged by a fine young fellow that goes by the name JAX$. The people at the car wash were able to remove it in two seconds -- so maybe that's why you don't see many tagged cars. BTW, if anyone runs into JAX$, punch him in the face for me.
funny, just this morning i was thinking that if someone was going to tag/stencil a car, "Impeach Bush" on the rear bumper would be a pretty good place (and reason) to do it.
Moreover! Please call 311 and report that divot, (if you haven't already filled it with a toddler.) The DPW should get it patched up within a couple weeks.