Spraying... Does it even mean a frikking shit?

[Eccho]

Hi guys.

Me and my dad (and his wife) are trying to sell the house, and we had a round tour yesterday. Now, they have been on vacation since a week ago, and Im home by myself. But today when I went out, I discovered that some stupid idiots have painted on over port/garage/garden door/door/w/e. Im definitly sure that they knew about the round-tour, but what I want to ask is: Does the spraying actually mean something? Or is it just some plain in the ass shit for us to remove..?

I took a photografy. If they even could have made it look nice, but this is just stupid and ugly.

Thanks
Eccho

 

[~Void~]

Meh, just paint over it.

It looks like random tool stuff, like I can read 420.

 

[Squiggy]

The 420 on the right side might be some crewname - the rest just gives me an s, somewhere a t and much decoration D:

 

[Eccho]

mm, and that thing on the upper left, a stick figure? The problem is as well, that usually these kind of painting claims a territory and challenges others to come there >.> And I cant find the right paint to get rid of it.

 

[~Void~]

The 420 on the right side might be some crewname - the rest just gives me an s, somewhere a t and much decoration D:

No, it's 420. It's a pothead thing.

 

[Eccho]

A pothead?

 

[Steel_Stallion]

420 as in 4/20, April 20th, Marijuana Recognition Day or some shit... yeah, its a pothead thing.

I think it says "420 Friendly", meaning legalize weed.

 

[busterkomo]

420 = 4/20 (April 20th). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)

Edit: Steel_Snake beat me to it.

 

[Eccho]

:O good idea... tho, I dont see any friendly. But what do I know, it could be coded in some way blergh?

Edit: Omg f'ck?

 

[NoAmmoSrry]

Bro it just says 420 love with guys name. Nuttin to worry about.

 

[-Berz-]

Damn bastards! :<

 

[Eccho]

I guess so, but we dont want it nevertheless when we are trying to sell the house:7

 

[Latecat]

Thats some annoying sh*t <.<

 

[Elenai]

...This is where getting a vicious/bark dog is a good idea...

 

[Eccho]

hm yes... anywho I painted it over now... Ill have to paint again tomorrow sadly to cover it up.

 

[-Berz-]

Don't worry, they'll come again tonight and spray it all over again xP

So if you have a dog, it would be good to leave it there.

 

[Eccho]

Sadly we dont have a dog. And last time they didnt come and spray it over. I really hope they were high so that they dont remember it.

 

[NoAmmoSrry]

ur never high when your tagging, u need to be sober to run away from the cops and shit

 

[Eccho]

blerh, well lets just hope they dont show up again

 

[NoAmmoSrry]

they probably wont, you never tag the same area within a 2 week span, its a commen sense rule. So you got about 2 weeks to get a doggie

 

[Eccho]

Thats great Since its not really common we get that spraying, Ill hope its another 6 months

 

[~Void~]

ur never high when your tagging, u need to be sober to run away from the cops and shit

Or... you tag when there are no cops around... like a sensible person. The only people you're going to have to run away from when tagging are random people who walk by, or the building owner.

 

[NoAmmoSrry]

Or... you tag when there are no cops around... like a sensible person. The only people you're going to have to run away from when tagging are random people who walk by, or the building owner.

ive had ppl come out with shotguns to chase ppl off from tagging houses in new york, u never ever get high, or drunk or anything and always wear running shoes

 

[Direfury]

Some wads decided to tag our motorhome a few weeks back. I caught 'em doing it again during the weekend after.

Quite obviously, they've been avoiding my property.

...And my dog.

 

[~Void~]

ive had ppl come out with shotguns to chase ppl off from tagging houses in new york, u never ever get high, or drunk or anything and always wear running shoes

Yeah, but you don't get cops chasing after them unless they're stupid enough to tag when cops are around.

 

[NoAmmoSrry]

well depends where you live, some times you gotta take chances to tag, i noe in new york cops were always on the streets but you still be tagin em wals

 

[Direfury]

There's a special method some people use when breaking the law, right infront of the cops.

Get two friends, give one a camera, and force the other one to piss the cop off.

 

[Eccho]

ive had ppl come out with shotguns to chase ppl off from tagging houses in new york, u never ever get high, or drunk or anything and always wear running shoes

People seldom have shotguns at hand in Sweden. US law and Swedish law is totally different.
And yeah, its not that common here.

 

[V.I]

420's internationally renowned in the underground scene as being related to Cannabis. Some say that 420 originated from a police code that announces marijuana use is taking place. Yet another story is that a group of guys in the 1970's made 4:20 their official meeting time to smoke marijuana after school.

Anyway, I think spraying can, and does, have some meaning (see: Banksy) however, the majority just use spraypaint to apply stupid things to the wall, like they've done to your house.

I know someone in my area who has started writing 'guerrilla poetry' around the town I live in, and that's pretty cool.

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

People seldom have shotguns at hand in Sweden. US law and Swedish law is totally different.
And yeah, its not that common here.

baseball bat... with barbed wire

 

[Warhunter]

I would grab the nearest weapon, even if it was a BB Gun or just a softair Gun. And put up traps, wires and things. Then I would sit at a window on second floor or something, and shoot at 'em when they come. If they come back again! then, you just do like this. You put many metal wires in your garden, and at places they may walk. And, before you go to bed, you just connect a car battery to the wires or something. >

If that's not enought, then you just buy a weapon license and buys a real Gun.

I haven't tested it, but it should work.
I think..

 

[TheDivineBoss]

(Ugh, not this again)

You can see spraying in two ways:
1 - Art.
2 - Vandalism.

During Culture classes there was a big Elenai-like discussion about it. Just don't do it here.

It's just (sloppy) art or vandalism, depending on your point of view..

 

[HFR]

It can one of those 2 things, but the "artistic" spraying isn't just random numbers and letters. That's vandalism, for sure.

 

[Eccho]

I would grab the nearest weapon, even if it was a BB Gun or just a softair Gun. And put up traps, wires and things. Then I would sit at a window on second floor or something, and shoot at 'em when they come. If they come back again! then, you just do like this. You put many metal wires in your garden, and at places they may walk. And, before you go to bed, you just connect a car battery to the wires or something. >

If that's not enought, then you just buy a weapon license and buys a real Gun.

I haven't tested it, but it should work.
I think..

xD my pieceful town is not a frikking warzone you know

 

[HFR]

Really, my town has, like 100,000 people and my wall has those things too, but they are

- Bigger
- Green
- Has immoral words

 

[Coolty44]

Its probably just some random spray painters. I'd check the attic.

When 420 came around, some old lady screamed in the middle of my french class and woke me up. Turns out some stoners were in her attic.

Everything exept 420 seems to be random giberish crap that you often see enmass in big citys. If it happens again, it might be becuase of you moving. Anybody that you know dis-like you that does weed?

 

[Eccho]

Haha, no I have no irl enemies Your most likely true that they saw we were having a round tour and decided to make someting *fun* out of it.

 

[HFR]

You're lucky, because usually vandals here spray the houses at night, even with someone living in it, like my house.

 

[Warhunter]

xD my pieceful town is not a frikking warzone you know

Who knows? It may turn out to one at any moment. And that's a effective way to hold 'em off your house.

 

[Eccho]

Lund is not a warzone. The only thing which has happend around here are that demonstrations are protesting against the "abandoned houses they are infesting, but the politics purges the houses instead"

 

[Warhunter]

Why not blow 'em and build a new better house?

 

[V.I]

I hate to point out the obvious in this situation, but you really wouldn't grab the nearest weapon and go up against 5+ 'gang members' at all, really, would you? I mean, they're 'pumped up gang thungs', and you're someone who spends more time on the computer than he does outdoors.

No offence intended, but you can surely see what I mean.

 

[Eccho]

I am? At least I got my health still.

To think of it, they dont even know what I look like Problem solved anyway, we sold the house And Im moving to a student corridor in two months

 

[Warhunter]

I hate to point out the obvious in this situation, but you really wouldn't grab the nearest weapon and go up against 5+ 'gang members' at all, really, would you? I mean, they're 'pumped up gang thungs', and you're someone who spends more time on the computer than he does outdoors.

No offence intended, but you can surely see what I mean.

Traps?

 

[dansaDisco]

I am? At least I got my health still.

To think of it, they dont even know what I look like Problem solved anyway, we sold the house And Im moving to a student corridor in two months

Lol, you're Swedish? I never knew that :E

or well.. Lund.. You're technically Danish

Anyway, sorry about your door

That's one of the pluses of living in an apartment, nobody really cares if your front wall is tagged because it really ain't your wall.

 

[Eccho]

It really is our wall. We built it ;O And, it's where you go in, to get to the door on the yard to the in the house.

Technically Danish? Nah, but I'd accept historically

 

[dansaDisco]

It really is our wall. We built it ;O And, it's where you go in, to get to the door on the yard to the in the house.

^^
Well, it's better that they tag your wall than your car though, but yeah

Technically Danish? Nah, but I'd accept historically

*gets a shovel*