Ann Sherry's North Beach mural "Gold Mountain," a work that depicts Chinese influence to San Francisco and American history, fell victim to hooligan defacing. Specifically, the recent addition of Betty Ong, a San Francisco flight attendant who died in the World Trade Center attacks.

While it doesn't seem like an intentional hit on Ong's heroism, 9/11-ness, or whatever -- because murals in this city get defaced the second the paint starts drying -- it is interesting to note that "the taggers used paint (mixed) with epoxy that we can't...remove." Sherry told the Chronicle, going on to say, "[w]e started fixing it ... but the taggers get angry if you remove their graffiti and they just tried to ruin it."

Who knew taggers were such a bratty yet tenacious lot? Nerds, really. We thought that they were more hit-and-run. This is disappointing.