Results tagged “vandalism”

Attention anti-graffiti ilk: there's a new anti-graffiti Twitter feed for you to follow, @SFGraffiti. While still in its embryonic stage, it has @311 following it, which might very well result in some sort of tagging cleanup around the city if it gets enough people involved. So, send all your most irritable graffiti sightings (plus a picture, ideally) to @SFGraffiti.

Before we begin, "Steven Free" is a far better name than "Girafa." It's action-packed! But since male artists love, love, love using stage names, he obviously had to get a new one; after all, he was committing illegal acts of painting. We digress.

If you know who detailed this San Francisco highway sign with "art," you could get a prize. Check it: MNuru, who snapped this shot on southbound 101, says, "If you have info leading to the arrest of those who defaced this hwy sign last wknd on SB 101 @ 3rd&Bayshore streets in my n’hood call 415-695-2003, reward offered upon conviction."

Oh wow. We are starting to enjoy the angry missives written in response artistic license of taggers. Take, for example, the owner of Kezar Pub in the Haight. (Which is a fantastic sports bar, by the way.) It seems a Lakers fan went into the can and tagged the bar's mirror, presumably with pro-Lakers propaganda.

Well, this wasn't cool.

The latest tip on SFist's contribute page informed us that the The San Francisco Office of Vital Records has a notice on their website regarding a recent break-in at their office: "As a result of large amounts of certified paper being stolen, this office is unable to produce birth and/or death certificates." The paper will be restocked on Tuesday. At first we thought actual birth and death certificates were stolen, but it sounds like just the special paper was. Although fraudulent activities can still be had after such a theft, we're glad that San Francisco's vital records are still safe and sound.

Hmmm. Well. It's a bit messy. Obviously, the work of many contributors with no one cohesive statement. But, out of the blue, the shock of sunny red gibberish, amongst so much gibberish, somehow ties it all together.

As Tangobaby put it, "What?! Ewww. And cool."

Mission Mission posted this video from July 4th around last call at 16th and Albion in the Mission, which shows fireworks being aimed at cars. Rumor has it that cyclists were also targets. Police showed up to the scene but couldn't decipher who the culprits were in the crowd.

Wha?

This image has been up on Mission Mission for over a week. But if you haven't seen these little fellas yet, check them out. (They also popped up on Folsom Street, near that Communist grocery store.) Mischievously adorable, yes? Yes.

For those of you who don't think smiley face tagging is positively whimsical, be sure to use 311's Graffiti Reporter. You can help erase mischievous displays of graffiti you find in public parks (Golden Gate Park, John McLaren Park, and other playgrounds and park property), on private property (personal residences, homes, office buildings), on public property (bike racks, trans cans, newsracks, mailboxs, public toilets, parking meters, fire hydrants, etc.), or any other location that affects your sacred quality of life (MUNI buses/trains/cable cars, billboards, bus shelters, BART, Caltrains, schools).

Today, C.W. Nevius (sort of) suggests jail time for hoodlums caught tagging or performing other acts of artistic expression via vandalism. Because graffiti in San Francisco is getting worse. (Or better, depending on how you look at it.)

IndyBay, the Bay Area's best online humor site, admits to wreaking havoc -- havoc!! -- on a North Berkeley BART station. To save you precious index finger energy, we will repost the post in its entirety. Ahem.

Since, naturally, Jews control the media (oh, we kid.) and the Gav loves the media, Mayor Gavin Newsom sent out the following statement yesterday, condemning the defacing of the SF Holocaust Memorial.

Oh oh. Once again, just the other day, the San Francisco Holocaust Memorial fell victim to vandalism. Some sort of red paint -- possibly signifying blood? -- was involved. While the graffiti has since been erased, a "footprint remains where red had been painted onto the memorial wall outside the Palace of the Legion of Honor." The suspect, according to KCBS, is a passionate lad "in his 20s who is six feet, wears a white bandana and carries a black bike messenger bag." Motivated by the recent Israeli assault in the Gaza Strip? Perhaps. But who's to say. If you recall, the memorial was the target of swastika graffiti back in November.

If so, an SFist source, who saw what happened and asked to remain anonymous, writes in to tell us:

For the second time in two months, the San Francisco Holocaust Memorial in Lincoln Park was vandalized. With damages anywhere between $5,000 and $6,000, swastikas were marked on the bronze sculpture with pen. Most of the signage was removed, but a "specialized sculpture conservator will be brought in to fully restore the memorial."

Snapped up by Octoferret, this bit of amber graffiti is also a spooky optical illusion!

Hmm. Interesting.

Wow, this sure is arty. It's probably one of those acclaimed pieces we're supposed to know about -- and we're sure some of your AAC kids can chide us accordingly if that's the case -- but we don't. Because painting is (arguably) a dead medium. But we mean that in a good way. Sort of. We digress.

Here we see a simple blue Sharpie--and judging by the whimsy of the "i," written by a female--used to express affection for another person or, though it's doubtful, the Muni train itself. We believe the graffiti speaks to another person since any love for Muni is suggestive of psychosis.

Early this morning at around 4 a.m. someone "threw an incendiary device at the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco," according to the Gate. Located at 1450 Laguna Street, the consulate wasn't affected too much, but its roll up garage door on Geary Street, it seems, was burned.

Grade F: tsk, tsk.

Before & After

Well, this was unnerving.

Yeah, we could hardly believe the headline ourselves. Do people have no shame?