Graffiti again
Okay, so maybe I have an obsession.
But it was refreshing to see in the Monroe Schmooz that I'm not the only one bent out of shape about grafffiti. Ken Wickenheiser and Brian Beneteau were gnashing about it and I sympathize with them.
How's this for an idea -- the Main Street/DDA/downtown business network and others throw down a little cash and put up a $1,500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction. Then, get a conviction and make the perp a graffiti cleaner for six months. You could have a rotating crew of chumps supplied by their greedy little stoolie friends.
What member of council will run with this one?
But it was refreshing to see in the Monroe Schmooz that I'm not the only one bent out of shape about grafffiti. Ken Wickenheiser and Brian Beneteau were gnashing about it and I sympathize with them.
How's this for an idea -- the Main Street/DDA/downtown business network and others throw down a little cash and put up a $1,500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction. Then, get a conviction and make the perp a graffiti cleaner for six months. You could have a rotating crew of chumps supplied by their greedy little stoolie friends.
What member of council will run with this one?
posted by The Observer at 6/26/2007 02:00:00 PM
13 Comments:
The graffiti artist who painted "zink" on my building as well as other buildings has been caught. On the same night that he painted mine, he also painted Mental Health and Broadway Market, and from what I am told, was apprehended near Broadway Market with a can of spray paint and a black marker. I believe that this was a 20 or 21 year old who either lives on, or used to live on Zink Rd.
I like your idea about a reward, and in fact I contacted Mr. Bennett from the Monroe News, before knowing of this offender being apprehended, and was going to include a reward of my own if Mr. Bennett would run a story. We found out the next morning that he had been caught, but Mr. Bennett still ran the story. Hopefully he will follow up on the story, when the police actually charge the graffiti artist, and print the fines and restitution that this person receives. If nothing else, perhaps it will act as a deterrent in preventing other acts of vandalism.
I like the idea of letting kids who may get a ticket for riding their skateboards on the sidewalks
serve their time with community service. The same should not be true with a person who is 20 or 21 years old, and blatantly violates the law as well as someone's property. He should get fines and penalties as the judge sees fit to hand out. Although standing watch over this person while he cleans his artwork may not be a bad idea, as long as I get to control the taser.
Glad they caught him. Now, could they please work on the "residents" in the apartments above the old Ray's Music (new store; Urban Interiors(I think)) who continue to drag furniture out onto the sidewalk, drink and get loud. (Idea; if you want a balcony or deck - rent an apartment that has one).
Great response Mr. Beneteau - confirms the fact that my initial thoughts were wrong. You are much more reasonable than I believed. Too bad the six year olds with access to mummies computer will pounce on the taser comment. Ah, well, they seemed to be able to take a joke when others are telling it.
Back to the agenda at hand - could we also do something about the urine smell in some of the alley's (leading to the river walk, east of Jones). I know were are a rural / urban community but just because we have John Deere's going down Monroe Street does not mean that Monroe should smell like a farm.
Good on catching the spray paint vandal. I do hope Adam Bennett starts reporting issues in a timely manner that touch the general welfare. He is in the habit of dragging items of essential concern out for four or more days in order to have “news”.
Contrary to what was stated on the previous series of posts, I have always considered John Iacoangeli a friend. Compora had her moment in the Sun closing a papermill just before Christmas and securing free mad money for herself and her neighbors using a lawsuit to obtain money that appears to be obtained without working for it. Likewise, I do not consider any mayor causing the fixed base operator to cease lawful use of the Custer airport in spite of doing so lawfully. When businesses leave town they all seem to echo “you can’t fight city hall”.
I thought several citizens spoke up nicely as the stars of the last council meeting for explaining why oversight was needed to reign in Compora and especially Floraday on buying of buildings. Compora and Floraday appear to this writer to convey less intelligence as a team than either on can individually. The issue is sickeningly transparent when Compora tries to beg for more time so the Floradays to figure out what they do not understand about “we do not trust you”.
Urinal issue: Perhaps a large plastic funnel with several naphtha cakes could be placed in the alley. A plastic tube could be run to the river.
Cut the crap Smith we all know you post anonymously then answer your own posts. You are a raving lunatic.
You are infected Brother. Toxic.
Oh yeah, I'd be proud to have you as a father. Bet your council buddies are proud as hell of you too! Watch them slowly fade away well before election day.
Why? Because you are poison!
Good Old Liability Dave.
Anonymous -
Toxic? Poison? Infected? What? There are four comments (including yours). One from Mr. Beneteau, one from me (alacajun) and one from an anonymous. So, as I am sure David Smith is not Brian Beneteau and Smith is not alacajun (an I know he isn't) then your supposition is that Smith is the Observer and then answering himself as anonymous.
For this to be true (I don't believe it is) then your argument is that you continue to read a blog written by a "infected Brother. Toxic. You are a raving lunatic. Because you are poison!
Good Old Liability Dave." yet continue to spew obvious hate. With that said I think your post says more about you than Mr. Smith. Please, if you have nothing constructive to add - try and add nothing.
alacajun,
well said. Actually this could be an informative forum if both of these respondants would get their own blog and just go at each other without the rest of us having to read. It seems obvious that neither of these people are intellectual enough to just ignore posts that they do not like. I guess they figure that since they fought in court, they can fight everywhere, except in person due to the mutual restraining orders. Continue with the good postings, and ignore the bad. Maybe they will eventually go away.
As to the graffiti painter being caught, I applaud the person or persons who caught them. This person should be tied to a tree in the downtown and everyone who passes should get a turn at spraypainting him. Plus he should have to clean up all of the graffiti in town, whether it be his work or someone elses.
You need help Smith.
You must be eaten up with vile. You obviously have no life other than this blog or the MEN one.
Buddy, you're one pitiful soul.
I think most posters to this blog wish to see it conducted with decency and in good order. I keep my comments concerning opinions of people on www.historicmonroe.org. If you read it at all carefully, you can see my opinion is that John Iacoangeli is considered to be a personal friend and a decent mayor. Jeff Green was owed an apology and it was made in the same public forum where the criticism was made. Compora is considered a bad example and possibly incapable of doing her own notes for her council rants so someone else may be doing her prompting for her. Perhaps she should be provided a teleprompter so Floraday or other of that spend and waste clique with no council oversight can type her notes in real time. Janet from the Book Nook set the matter in correct perspective. DVD recordings of the meeting are available at a nominal (actual) cost if you wish copies of that meeting in case your relitivers don’t believe could live in such a screwed up town.
Likewise, you will find that I do not consider the Lanham family to be ignorant hillbillies. They may be slow learners because the city attorney read them the appropriate statutes in a public meeting where photographic arts were used by the writer. The Lanham’s doubted that this statute could possibly be true, so at great personal expense on my witnesses time, the County of Monroe, and my attorney’s fees, Judge Costello explained it all in turn to each them. They do not understand that a “consent decree” is typically a tool used by the court through the party’s attorneys to define a relationship’s bounds. It is often used for relationships what many of us would recognized as living in sin or shacked up where division of property held in common needed to be arrived at.
Compora’s attorney proposed setting aside the PPO immediately and substituting a mutual equal restraining order that would run until after the election, that is end of year. The Lampton’s have not been able to grasp what the condition “free to editorialize about each other” or words to that effect mean.
Let me say that I get along with nearly everyone in this world. I am not apt to agree with the Floradays or Compora if they insist on more splash pond improvements on land the city does not own or acquiring more dilapidated buildings without council approval.
Sure I admire Al Cappuccilli for his ability to run a good meeting in spite of people who are failing to get a trump card dealt their way trying to throw crap in the ice cream. If anyone has any issues with me, they are free to contact me and I will try to relieve your concerns. I suspect this is not possible with those people who roll little balls of their own crap and throw them for others to tread upon. So much for anon and his/her crap.
David Alkire Smith
Is someone namely Smith cutting and pasting inflammatory postings of the past onto this current thread? I've read these before.
Wouldn't doubt that Smith is doing it just to create more unrest on this thread, or maybe the pitiful man can't stand that no one replies to his rants. Either way he makes no sense.
Maybe the moron is just getting lazy, or loosing creativity.
It baffles me as to why Smith gets accussed of posting as Anonymous when he is one of the few that will sign his name.
Maybe you should look at your own character before you accuse others of wrong doing. You may be accussed of slander or libel.....
Anyone go to the meeting last night? I couldn't make it, but I'm curious as to what the tone of the meeting was. I read the account in the paper, but Adam gets stuff wrong alot, so I don't trust their version.
Pray tell me how anonymous postings differ from graffiti?
David Alkire Smith
An update on graffiti:
We have a new artist on the loose. This one must be a rival artist to Zink. I know this because he or she actually painted over the "Zink" on my Vine St. building, and also painted two very large areas on the back of the Monroe Lock and Safe building. It must have happened over the last day or two. The Monroe L&S buildings has since been repaired (painted over)
Hopefully this person will also get caught soon before causing more damage.
My taser comment on my earlier post was a joke, although when your property gets hit you actually feel like inflicting a slight jolt of electricity through someones little brain. I guess the actual punishment should be having the offender go back out during daylight hours when everyone can see him and repair the damage. What he should paint is a large sign which he could have to put next to him while he performs his punishment. What should that sign read? Any suggestions? I'm thinking something like "I'M A VANDAL" or "LOOK, I'M A CRIMINAL" but maybe someone else has a better idea.
I am a fan of the taser treatment - honestly, I am. But, giving way to "PC" I think these miscreants should be forced to provide "art work" to the City and property owners by "fixing" the damage they caused. Community service should be set at the amount of time it takes them to fix the problem.
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