You know, I used to often drink when I would be out writing, or maybe it was the other way around, either way I’m very glad to have never been incarcerated for drunk and writing. The following news piece should be a lesson learned for all of you who like to get a little tipsy when you’re out and about!

Athens police arrested two men yesterday morning and charged them with criminal mischief for painting graffiti on three storage buildings.

Police Captain Marty Bruce saie 23-year-old Luis Cuarado and 26-year-old Humberto Torres were each charged with three counts of third-degree criminal mischief and one count of public intoxication.

Bruce said Torres was also charged with carrying a concealed weapon after police found him carrying a pair of nunchuks.

Bruce said an officer saw the men drop some objects by a utility pole and noticed that Cuarado had red paint on his hand. The officer found two cans of red spray paint at the utility pole.

Bruce said Sergeant Jason White determined that Cuarado and Torres had painted graffiti on the three buildings near the Alabama Veterans Museum on Pryor Street.

Source: Athens Police Arrest Two For Painting Graffiti

Furthermore, nunchuks? Are you serious?!!? NUNCHUKS?!?!?

These were actually good ideas Caltrans put into action for once. Thorny bushes, vines covering sound walls, etc. Gotta’ give them that much.

Caltrans took a frustrating, seemingly intractable graffiti problem on Interstate 80 in Richmond and appears to be solving it with a creative solution. ChronicleWatch first wrote about this story Oct. 18 after transit officials and Richmond cops had spent months in a frustrating cat-and-mouse game with a group of taggers, who kept spraying obscenities and slurs along an I-80 stretch between the McBryde Avenue off-ramp and the Solano Avenue on-ramp. The taggers were vandalizing the large sound walls so often that they even struck again one night just hours after a Caltrans crew had cleaned off some graffiti. The next morning, thousands of commuters on the westbound freeway saw a new batch of vulgar words in bright yellow paint. But since then we’ve seen improvements and little or no graffiti because Caltrans crews have been cleaning up almost immediately.

As a long-term solution, though, Caltrans has begun planting vines and thorny bushes along the sound wall to make it less tempting for vandals. Once established, the vines will cover most of the wall’s visible surface and will be very difficult to remove by anyone intent on mischief. The thorny bushes also provide a disincentive to vandals, who like to work under cover of darkness.

Source: Richmond: A green solution to rude graffiti on I-80

As if they didn’t have it all covered by now here in Cali…

Graffiti vandals beware — there’s a new sheriff in town, and you won’t ever see him.

Broadband Discovery Systems, a two-year-old company based in Scotts Valley, has developed a series of devices finely tuned to detect the sound of an aerosol spray can from as far as 35 feet away.

“I despise graffiti,” said president and chief executive Cory Stephanson, who worked with a team of engineers to build the device aimed to stymie graffiti vandals.

Stephanson and vice president Michael Neely discovered that $22 billion is spent every year in the United States dealing with graffiti, and they think their latest innovation will help.

The device, nicknamed “Project Merlin” after Stephanson’s son, has intricate sound recognition features that are tuned to detect only the specific sounds an aerosol can makes. When the sensor detects the sound of a can dispensing, it uses cell-phone-like technology to send out an alert.

Read More: Graffiti detectors in the making

Just archiving an interesting news piece. Carry on.

The graffiti tagger “RESF” was apprehended by the PBP Graffiti Task Force at Brashear High School and charged with 5 counts of Graffiti Vandalism.

Police say the suspect was originally wanted for numerous counts of graffiti vandalism in the Brookline area of the City.

He was allegedly caught in the act of defacing a wall in November by a vigilant citizen who snapped a picture with a digital camera of him.

With the help of citizens of Pittsburgh, Graffiti Task Force was able to obtain information and apprehend the juvenile without incident.

Police believe the juvenile may also be responsible for tagging in the Dormont Area of the City.

That incident is currently under investigation with the Dormont Police Department.

Source: Pittsburgh Police Nab Graffiti Offender

The Montclair City Council unanimously approved an ordinance to toughen the fight against illegal graffiti vandalism throughout the city of Montclair. It seems this type of news is becoming more and more frequent around Southern California.

Council members Monday night unanimously approved an ordinance to toughen the fight against graffiti.

Under the new ordinance, property owners would be required to pay for removal after a certain number of graffiti occurrences, and face possible land-use conditions, said city Administrative Services Director Edward Starr.

Councilman Bill Ruh, who approved the ordinance, expressed his reservations over the ordinance because he did not believe property owners should have to pay a removal fee after already being victimized.

The city now sends graffiti abatement workers to remove graffiti. With approval of the ordinance, the city would provide up to three free removal services at vandalized properties. After the third removal, additional graffiti would prompt the city to issue a notice for the property owner to remove the graffiti themselves or pay the city for removal. Property owners would have four days to remove the graffiti or face consequences. The removal fee has yet to be determined.

The ordinance would also make parents of graffiti vandals liable for civil damages of up to $25,000 for each offense.

Read More: Montclair City Council approves graffiti ordinance

The organisers of a spoof British art competition claim they have caught the guerrilla artist Banksy trying to out-spoof them.

The judges of the annual Turnip Prize were far from impressed by a professional-looking entry they suspect came from the secretive Bristol graffiti artist. Under the strict entry criteria for the pastiche competition the artists must have spent as little time on their work as possible.

Suspicion has mounted about the identity of the artist since the artwork was dumped outside the New Inn pub in Somerset. The pub has been running its own annual art prize as an antidote to the “pretentious” Turner Prize since 1999.

The anonymous entry bears all the sardonic hallmarks of Banksy, the anonymous street artist whose work now sells to wealthy collectors for hundreds of thousands of pounds.

The painting shows a stencilled Mona Lisa firing a turnip from a bazooka. The rocket-launched vegetable is shown flying over a seaside pier below the word ‘Banksea’.

Read More: Banksy ‘caught red-handed’ in art prank

In what looks to be the only company profiting from southern California vandals, Graffiti Tracker has yet another contract in southern California. The city of Montclair, CA has spent some dough on graffiti abatement.

The City Council unanimously approved a one-year contract on Monday with a company that will study, analyze and help police reduce graffiti in the city.

The city hired Graffiti Tracker Inc. to supply police with GPS monitors to identify tagging in specific areas of the city.

Police Chief Chester Thompson said the GPS markers will help police direct enforcement toward areas where graffiti has increased or where gang rivalries are found.

“Graffiti is getting out of hand and getting costly,” said Councilwoman Carolyn Raft at Monday night’s meeting.

The council also approved spending $100,000 from a state grant to buy additional police equipment.

The expenditure from State Supplemental Law Enforcement Services Funds provides 12 mobile video recorders, a forensic evidence recovery tool and a mapping tool for the department.

Read More: Montclair approves graffiti tracking

HAHAHA! Oh man. If you read anything from me today let it be this!!

So, to sum it up. These kids at a graphic arts technical school are trying to beat an official Guinness World Record titled “Longest Graffiti Scroll”. You can get information about it here.
Anyways, I wonder if they know about SABER’s Unofficial World Record for the World’s Largest Graffiti Piece, measuring a staggering 250′ x 55′ (nearly the size of a football field) and took 125 gallons of latex roller paint to complete. Even though SABER’s piece isn’t in the Guinness World Records it definitely should be mentioned when talking about largest graffiti anything!

In closing, I propose that SABER’s masterpiece be nominated for what it deserves!

Bergen County Technical High School students will continue trying today to break the Guinness world record for the longest graffiti scroll.

The graphic design students from the school’s Paramus campus began spray-painting messages and quotes about safe teenage driving Thursday on paper scrolls. Their goal is to paint the graffiti on at least 2,000 feet of the paper.

A selection of messages has been chosen, including “Trustworthiness — No Drinking and Driving” and “Did you know that car accidents are the leading cause of deaths in our age bracket?”

But by day’s end, the students were still a bit short, reaching 1,500 feet, said teacher Karen Waller.

Disappointment set in when the 18 students thought they’d failed to beat the 1,858-foot-long record set in June by Procter & Gamble Balkans in Bucharest, Romania, she said.

Waller researched the Guinness rules, though, and determined “there’s nothing that says we can’t do it over the course of two days.”

Read More: Graffiti artists go for world record

You know. If you dig enough around the net you can find him. Not that hard at all. Or maybe I’m just good at tracking info down on the net. Either way here’s the story.

Hip British graffiti artist Bansky, whose true identity has long remained a mystery, was thrust into the spotlight Wednesday after the publication of a snatched picture allegedly of him at work.

A man believed to be Banksy, whose works sell for tens of thousands of pounds around the world, was caught on camera working on a new picture in an east London street, according to The Times.

His latest work depicts a huge sunflower, formed by diverting the double yellow parking lines from a street gutter across a pavement up onto the side of a house, flanked by a picture of a paint-roller wielding artist.

But the artist himself was believed to have been caught at work for the first time, by a passerby who took a picture on his mobile phone camera, the daily said.

“We never confirm or deny whether any image shows Banksy,” a spokesman for the artist told The Times, which printed the photo of a black-haired man in jeans a camouflage jacket, with a pollution-protecting mask on his head.

Read More: Wall of secrecy: elusive graffiti artist uncovered?

I remember finding some videos on YouTube a while back showing this one crazy guy who slides out of the windows while the train is moving and jumps on top and screws around, graffin all the while. I think it was in the Dirty Handz videos. Crazy stuff, I’ll post them if I can find them again. I’m pretty sure this isn’t the guy, but could be related somehow. Anyways, on with the news.

THIS is Perth’s teenage train-surfing graffiti vandal in action.

The boy’s nine-month tagging spree came to an end in July when he was charged with numerous trespass and vandalism offences.

He cannot be identified because he was a juvenile at the time the offences were committed.

But in court yesterday, he admitted to scrawling graffiti on trains and other railway property.

Security video shows the boy clinging to the back of a train while he tags the window.

The teenager was fined more than $6000, which included a $5000 contribution toward cleaning graffiti from the trains and property he had vandalised.

His sentencing coincided with an unrelated police operation which targeted graffiti vandals who were allegedly planning to tag trains and City of Perth property in Halloween damage spree.

Acting on information, Police Rail Unit officers and Perth police arrested 20 people during the two day crackdown across the metropolitan rail network, codenamed Operation Trackside 59.

Read More: Perth’s teenage train-surfing graffiti vandal