Can someone please explain all the graffiti in San Antonio? (tax, legal)

[yosoyway]

Originally Posted by scuba steve

Good call! We need more people like that. My only question is how he managed to take both of them on by himself without any of them running away.

This guy is big dude. He used to be in the Marines. But he said the punks were more scared than anything. They kept apologizing saying, "We're sorry sir." I don't think they were expecting to get caught.

[Dube665]

Where are all the public graffiti parks at in this city. Other cities have them. We have dog parks and lame skate parks. Why are there not any places for people to do legal graffiti at?

[rd2007]

it's about time people turned the tables on the bad guys. They're basically the rejects of society and it's not like anyone would really miss them or anything. If the parents cared, they'd know where they were at night. So yeah, I'm thinking a couple headlines of another tagger sniped in the middle of the night and police not really caring to do anything about it (is it really a problem?) would get their attention.

[sapphire]

Originally Posted by Dube665

Where are all the public graffiti parks at in this city. Other cities have them. We have dog parks and lame skate parks. Why are there not any places for people to do legal graffiti at?

I doubt these punks would use them. They are like dogs marking their territory. Instead of raising their leg they are squirting out of a spray can.

[rd2007]

nice comparison sapph. We should start calling them paint pissers from now on

[SnappyBob]

Yep, tagging is a territorial thing. If your seeing tagging in AR it's not because the bad boys down the street are coming in late at night a tagging everything up. It just means that AR now has it's own taggers.

[yosoyway]

Nope, it's coming from other areas. If you live around there, you know where it's coming from.

[primenumber]

Originally Posted by TexasWeatherman

The 78227 zip code includes the stretch of 410 from 151 to 90. According to data on city-data.com, the average household income in 2005 was 33,537. 10.3% of residents had 1999 incomes less than half the poverty level. Estimated average house/condo value in 2005 was 64523.

Compare these numbers to numbers from 78253, which includes Alamo Ranch. The average 2005 average household income was 67,162, twice the income in 78227. 1.1% of residents had incomes less than half the poverty level, a tenth the rate in 78227. Estimated house/condo value in 05 was 150066.

Thuggery have very fast cars with big exhaust pipes. The five minute drive from 78227 to 78253 is not much of an obstacle for them. They can easily pay for the gas with a few stolen rims.

Note that I am NOT bashing Alamo Ranch. It's on my list of potential places to move to. Just don't think of it as an enclave completely isolated from SA's problems.

I know the area/zip code you are speaking about. This area is inside 410. But make no mistake, this neighborhood is some 7 plus miles from Alamo Ranch.

That is a far cry from your "Alamo Ranch is not very far from a lot of very poor neighborhoods" declaration.

It it neither close nor is it "a lot."

Also, what is thuggery? It's not a person.

As for people who are thugs, they are not assigned a specific look nor a type of car. Maybe it's me, but give me a break.

[primenumber]

Originally Posted by rd2007

it's about time people turned the tables on the bad guys. They're basically the rejects of society and it's not like anyone would really miss them or anything. If the parents cared, they'd know where they were at night. So yeah, I'm thinking a couple headlines of another tagger sniped in the middle of the night and police not really caring to do anything about it (is it really a problem?) would get their attention.

Oh gosh. I figured your sniper comment at the top of page 3 was a sort of joke. But now I can see you were serious and were gauging people's responses to such an asinine suggestion.

To you, taking a persons life is a fair punishment for spray painting graffiti? Seriously?

You think these people won't be missed? Why, because they're selfish enough to buy spray paint and use it to vandalize? What an awful way of thinking. Most times, I'd say 8 out of 10 times it's a teenager with nothing better to do or a group effort comprised of 3 or 4 teenagers with nothing better to do.

Also, don't give me that "if parent's cared" speech. These aren't baby turtles in a water tank. Kids lie, yes, even to their own parents. Billy tells his parents he's going to Jack's to play basketball or the XBox but they're not. Heck, kids now have the skills to go out a window or out the door undetected. I don't think such trickery was around 30 years ago...

A parent who doesn't care, is a parent who knows what's going on and does nothing about it. You have no idea who these parents are and how they raise their children. If you have children, for all anyone knows, one of them could be tagging.

You have no idea. But let's say hypothetically that one of your children is a tagger. Are you telling me you don't care where they're at. Are you telling me he or she wouldn't be missed? Are you fine with "Tagger Sniped by Neighborhood Patrol" on the newspaper?

What will you propose next? Chop off the hands of kids who steal candy from neighborhood stores?

[rd2007]

FYI, not that it's any of your business, my kids are both adults and they didn't fall for the gang thing or the graffiti thing. They both have firm grasps on what is wrong and right and that's probably why they turned out so good. Saying a parent can't do anything is an excuse and people are sick of them. I doubt you could find 5 people on this board that would mind seeing a tagger permanently tagged. Most of us in this country are sick of paying for protection from pieces of garbage that are complete failures and don't belong anymore. They aren't producing anything and are instead draining resources. Good riddance to them and good riddance to those that make excuses for them I say..