Boston Police report arresting a Brighton man on charges he was busy spraying his tags on "public poles, signs and hydrants," in the area of Arlington and Hobart streets until he was confronted by people who told him to knock it off:
The suspect, once approached by witnesses and passersby began verbally assaulting them and gave them the middle finger. As witnesses continued to admonish the suspect for his activities, he eventually became physically assaultive and aimed spray paint in the direction of the witnesses which in turn lead to a physical encounter leading to the suspect being restrained.
Adam M. Brandon, 30, of Brighton, was charged with malicious destruction of property.
Innocent, etc.
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A 30-year old belligerent
By PeterGriffith5
Tue, 05/10/2011 - 6:25pm
A 30-year old belligerent
vandalspray paint artist?Kudos to those Neighbors
By joehp
Tue, 05/10/2011 - 6:26pm
Way to stick together and protect your neighborhood!
By the way: this was a thirty year old man?!? Spray painting mailboxes and poles? That's sad...
My thought exactly...
By Sally
Tue, 05/10/2011 - 7:23pm
30? Dude...time to put away the spray paint ( and probably the skate board and the skinny jeans) and get a grown-up life.
30 and still spray painting?
By NotWhitey
Tue, 05/10/2011 - 9:24pm
30 and still spray painting? Chronic wanker - guaranteed.
Not to mention..
By Sarcastic Sam
Wed, 05/11/2011 - 11:40am
also time to move out of Mommy's basement.
How is this destruction of
By anon
Tue, 05/10/2011 - 9:09pm
How is this destruction of property?... Are the hydrant, or the mailbox or the pole no longer working?
Just because he didn't broke
By RhoninFire
Tue, 05/10/2011 - 11:21pm
Just because he didn't broke them, it doesn't mean that the man's spraypainting isn't hurting aesthetics. Do you like seeing grafitti on those things?
Be sure to remember that
By Kaz
Wed, 05/11/2011 - 9:07am
When I spray paint your car with a big phallus on the hood.
Does the man being 30 years
By RhoninFire
Tue, 05/10/2011 - 11:25pm
Does the man being 30 years old or 15 years old really mean anything. Neither ages should they go around and do this.
*One exception, unless the graffiti is actually cool or some form of intellgent rebellion. Most in the US is just "This is why we can't have nice things."
Yes, it does.
By whyaduck
Wed, 05/11/2011 - 6:48am
By the time one is 30, you should really know better.:)
Tired of graffiti on my street too
By anon
Tue, 05/10/2011 - 11:40pm
There is constantly new graffiti on my street in downtown Boston. We (members of the neighborhood) paint over it, and it shows up again. Never ending cycle.
Why can't we start cutting off fingers of the jerks who do this? If not cut them off, and least break them. Something to get the point across.
One joint of a finger for
By NotWhitey
Wed, 05/11/2011 - 1:18am
One joint of a finger for each offense. And start with the responsible index finger. The good news is you wouldn't have to do it very often - the others would learn very quickly.
use a different tactic
By Atwater Flinch
Wed, 05/11/2011 - 7:49am
Instead, have DPW workers go to a place that the offender loves, say, his own home, and let them loose with spray cans.
I've always thought that graffiti is all about ego. They never care about anyone else.
I liked the action suggested
By Eighthman
Wed, 05/11/2011 - 12:10pm
I liked the action suggested by a Saturday Night Live bit many years ago (I guess when Guliani was host): City workers would go around and spraypaint "sucks" next to every tag.
Medieval jokes
By Dan Farnkoff
Wed, 05/11/2011 - 9:13am
Let's boil tax evaders in oil! Draw-and-quarter people who leave barrels in parking spots after a snowstorm! Why can't we? I don't get it!!!!
These things were funny the first hundred million times.
Persistence is key
By Kaz
Wed, 05/11/2011 - 9:21am
You pretty much have to be as persistent and consistent as possible in covering it up. If they put it up that morning, cover it up by evening, every day you see it. They want attention, you have to deny them what they want and they'll move on to easier places to tag that they won't have to fight you over. But if you only cover it up a week or two later...or if you let it go one day but not the next, they'll come back and respray. You might even get a feeling for when they're doing it and might be able to get police to cruise by a few times over that period of the day to possibly catch them in the act depending on how involved the tagging was.
Who writes the BPD headlines?
By The Beer Guy
Wed, 05/11/2011 - 7:57am
"Tag! You're under arrest!" is fantastic.
BTW I came in here to pile on about the dude being 30. WTF? Maybe he's developmentally disabled?
Also, this:
As witnesses continued to admonish the suspect for his activities, he eventually became physically assaultive and aimed spray paint in the direction of the witnesses which in turn lead to a physical encounter leading to the suspect being restrained.
Yeah, definitely developmentally disabled. Delayed at the very least.
The ICA, one of our city's
By anon
Wed, 05/11/2011 - 9:51am
The ICA, one of our city's premier cultural institutions, had an exhibition of Shepard Fairey graffiti about two years ago.... and drew large crowds. Maybe UHUBsters are just not hipsters....
I wonder
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 05/11/2011 - 9:55am
Did he turn into a giant pathetic douchebag on his own? Or were his parents enablers, like ones I've met who "excuse" everything their fully adult child does with a "well, he's just not ready to behave" and "his brain isn't wired for good behavior yet ... so we can't expect anything", etc.
I'm hoping it was the former, because there are too many of the latter around for society to support.
buddy, time to grow up!
By anon
Wed, 05/11/2011 - 8:08am
This guy has the maturity of a five yr. old -- maybe his mommy should buy him crayons and a coloring book.
hmmm
By Anon²
Wed, 05/11/2011 - 12:48pm
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