Pittsburgh, PA

This past Monday, Pittsburgh’s graffiti task force set up a panel discussion on what to do about the increasing annoyance of graffiti in the South Side area. The task force is getting more attention after they arrested MFONE a couple of months ago, whom because of their arrest, is facing up to $500,000 worth of damages. They, as well as other Pittsburghers, feel that his arrest will set a precedent for graffiti artists that are caught and will help to deter the crime in the first place.

Yeah right.

I don’t really want to get into why I used to wish these kinds of arrests happened more often, but I will say that my opinion has changed. As soon as I stopped being the girlfriend of one, I started to see it as less of a problem; at least in my life. I didn’t have to worry about him getting arrested or hurt anymore and no one was personally tagging my property, so no worries for me.

Now, I can see how it effects other people…mostly residents who are sick of having their property destroyed. However, my problem isn’t with all of the graffiti artists, it’s just with the really crappy ones. The good ones add something to a building or a sign or whatever; the bad ones make everything look worse than it already is. Yuck.

Now I’m not advocating doing this at all, because of course I like to stay out of jail, but I thought this was a good idea for some:

Go to Design Crack’s website for more details on what to do with the report card.

If you want to check out the original article that inspired this post, go to the Trib’s website here.

graffiti, South Side, Pittsburgh, report card, art, street art