Cheshire Karen

I overheard a chap on the train the other day say:
'Graffitti is a clear sign of sick soceity'

After that, it got me thinking how much graffitti there is in Brisbane. What shocked me is that there is a lot of graffitti on private property ie on somones gate, garage or side fence.

I could be mistaken but I really don't recall seeing this type of graffitti in and around where we lived in the UK and on my travels up and down the UK. Sure there was masses of graffitti but mostly in inner city areas, not much in the suburbs and then only in pretty public places such as parks etc.

Most of the teens, kids I have come into contact with or overheard have been way more pleasant than those in the UK, so I wonder whether these kids have an alter ego. Just who are these sick individuals?

asprilla

I think that kids all over the world between 5 and 25 like to paint on other people's things... I don't think that this means that they are sick in any way.

Personally I can't stand grafitti, I think it's pretty sad, a bit like trainspotting really.

Over here they are very precious about the inner city areas... I reckon they come down hard on kids who are caught spraypainting in the nice clean CBD. That's why you see the spraypaint on people's garden walls and garages instead...they aren't in a position to punish the kids.

renth

Believe me, if I caught them spraying my property they would be severely punished. Followed by me being severely punished by the police.

spartacus

Personally, see hardly any around where I live; none in the parks, shopping centres, bus stops, public toilets etc. See a huge amount along the train lines though; backs of buildings etc.

Agreed, kids on the whole are a lot more pleasant, apart from those with the little propellor thing on their caps, they're knobs, but that's probably just a personal thing.

Cheshire Karen

Just seems to have been a bit of a spurt recently around here, but interesting comment re: how proud aussies are of the city centre. Most people we speak to think its great to be near the city, suppose its the same back home but I'd prefer to live further out. Mind you I'm a suburban Manc. so that might explain a lot.

matt-and-jenny

I quite enjoy looking at the grafitti on my way into the city on the train. Not that I condone it. And I especially don't condone crap grafitti - that's just a waste of space
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Petals

I was on Eastlink yesterday and graffiti was on one of the walls and it looked awful. They risk their lives too where they paint.

It comes in waves around where I live none for ages then a lot of it and we are our lots stage at the moment. Best way to prevent them put a rose on your fence or wall.

Letterboxes are favourite here. We have lost ours twice in twenty years but we just stuck up a plastic bin no fun in destroying that. After a while we got a new one. No-one can see them do it as we are on large blocks and away from the road.

Problem is there is an age between 15 - 18 when there is no entertainment for kids not in sport or they have parents who don't care where they are and just hand over cash.

kez81

there alot of graffiti her in perth the little buggers also enjoy smashing school windows my daughters school get targeted every couple of weeks little shits its the world over though.

I remember writing my full name all over a busstop when i was younger my mum seen it sent me down with a bucket and sponge to clean it up embarrassing, worked though never did it again!!

sonlymewalter

You can hardly condone a whole society by the acts of a few.

Human nature means some humans do stupid things and grafitti is one of them.

SNH

We have some commissioned graffiti in Canberra.

And one of our idiotic Opposition politicians decided he would make a point about the 'failure of the Labor Party to deal with social issues'.

So he called the media and got them to come and film and photograph him scrubbing the graffiti away.

Of course he didn't bother to find out that it was a commissioned art work.

And now he is in trouble with the police for damaging public property.

Notts_bloke

I think graffitti can be great i.e. Banksy type stuff. Doesn't really harm any one, isn't particularly offensive.

Whereas tagging is just vandalism.

rabsody

We lived on one of those mock tudor style estates (white paint and beams on upper part of house) when i was a teen and my brother in his wisdom decided to "tag" in big spray painted letters on the side of next door's house ... on the white bit!

Not the most effective strategy for strengthening neighbourly relationships

Wol

The acid test of your attitude is whether you would be pleased to find your car grafittied overnight with artistic tags in permanent paints.

I wouldn't.

tictac

I've noticed a considerable increase of tagging in and around Brisbane over the past few months

I'd like to catch one of these pathetic wannabe gang members in the act but unfortunately, they only seem to operate during the night.

Hutch

There's some old rivalry between our town and a very similar one 15 minutes down the coast. The kid's from each town drive over, tag the surf club and skate parks in the respective towns and then go home. But that's about it.

I quite like this graffiti, which you can find in Bristol, UK.