[Sorry i think i misunderstood the thread. I gave advice my bad.]
With the teenagers there is nothing you can do besides have someone there. Most teens (people) are cowards. Just having eyes on them will stop most misbehavior.
As for the old lady, she sounds like she needs someone to talk to her. She might just be a lonely old coot or mentality ill. Have you been able to talk to her at all? At the same time maybe she is a hag and is doing this because she hates the church. The only way to tell is to talk with her. Maybe she is perfectly possessed?
When I was in college I was in an "arts" area, also around mexican gangs and shit. Now I hate to say this because I sound like a "le reddit badass" but I am not an art faggot. We had one place that was popped up bedroom and kids would come to tag up where me and my GF tried to sleep.
I'm a HARD nigger. I once stepped out and sorted things. It's amazing how little force is needed and oddly they stopped tagging our building. I didn't really care about the tagging but I'm trying to fuck this girl and you're all around my windows.
To be fair I was lucky and dealt with the arty kids, 6v1 I had the heads up, I don't think the illegals would have chickened out.
either way after that they all stood up and clapped because that student was Albert Einstein. Or maybe I sucker punched a kid and they just chickened out.
Someone graffiti'd "suck my boner" in giant 5ft tall letters under an overpass in Houston somewhere I can't remember exactly where (and no it wasn't that famous graffiti bridge that has "BE SOMEONE" written on it) I thought it was hilarious...not "suck my dick", nor "suck my cock", but "suck my boner". Wonderful prose.
Growing up, someone spray painted a ball sack on the driveway leading to the small parking lot for the apartment building one block away from me. It stayed there for the longest time before abruptly disappearing. It was trifling enough that I think the most I'd make the culprit do is remove or paint over it.
In junior high, someone originally spray painted, "This school sucks" outside the 8th grade entrance on Devils Night only to have a change of heart in crossing out "sucks" and replacing it with "is cool." In response,t he school left more lights on around the property and I think they left more every single light in the building on the following year for devils night. Given it was likely a student or some teenager trying to be edgy, I'd find it most appropriate make the culprit pay for the damage or do some sort of cleanup detail at the school if they didn't have the money.
Kinda hard to prevent this silly kind of vandalism, and - more times than not - it's not worth giving someone a criminal record over unless it's a known troublemaker or repeat offender.
Yea, and it's not even political or social shit anymore. Just people drawing phalli, swastikas, or some other word they learned just this week to make parents call them naughty.
Not much here, the wall of one of the buildings of the former collective farm has a nice collection of scratched in slogans and symbols from the last 50 years. I like that nobody ever sprayed on it, it's all scratched and carved in.
One smaller funny one I saw last year was after they for some reason demolished a perfectly fine road to replace it and afterwards put one of those propagandy "this road was built using eu funds bla bla bla" signs there and in under 48 hours (I walked there before the sign was there, two days later I walk past and it's like this already) all the letters were peeled off, some rearranged and some scratches used to fill in absent letters, to call the prime minister a faggot.
This is why I think corporal punishment is essential to the justice system, especially for children. A harsh public caning would teach them not to vandalize anything again. How much vandalism is there in Singapore?
In fact I'd argue corporal punishment is less disruptive and harmful to them than sticking them in a cell or charging them with a crime that'll follow them. Take your beating and move on with your life.
I disagree. In Japan the culture doesn't emphasize that*: they emphasize shame over guilt and people behave themselves. Also over in Germany before endless Current Year and the migrant crisis, there was a lack of graffiti as well. Germany then was against beatings.
* Japan recently universally banned corporal punishment. IIRC it was already banned as a sentence, and banned in schools since 1947.
Anyway I live in a less leftist and less urban place. Saw graffiti once: it was soon painted over.
Yet when one is stuck in a more leftist and more urban place, graffiti may be a more common sight.
As for the old lady, she sounds like she needs someone to talk to her. She might just be a lonely old coot or mentality ill. Have you been able to talk to her at all? At the same time maybe she is a hag and is doing this because she hates the church. The only way to tell is to talk with her. Maybe she is perfectly possessed?
The old "ladies" problem is unrelated to the church, and the problem is that it's not just 1, there's many.
They don't care & are greedy, so they tear apart any flowers in the city in order to have them for themsleves, in their shitty living room where they'll rot away.
It's not only me the one that noticed, an old coworker told me about the day when beautiful flowers were put in like a plaza, and they lasted very shortly because of them.
They're like hens pecking at the flowers and removing them with no care in the world, about the same amount of sentience as well.
I live in a relatively small rural town and the megabrains in the council decided to build a paved walking bridge over a river floodplain because the decrepit boomers that infest this place found the stairs up the ravine slope too hard to walk up. Now it's become a putrid dumping ground; as of yesterday there's a sofa, car batteries, a stolen e-scooter, a ton of paint, and a bunch of vape pens. I've seen who does it; it's split almost exactly 50/50 between geriatric boomer slugs who refuse to dispose of anything properly and bored broccoli haired wiggers from the high school.
Parks & Rec is one guy, some shitskin, who does literally nothing so it's up to very brave good samaritans to wade into the mud flat to remove anything. It's wildly dangerous; I've measured it and the mud pan is about 25 feet deep, filled with air pockets and if you shift the wrong way you'll get sucked in hard and fast. God knows what awful shit is sitting at the bottom of that thing.
I've considered lobbying to get some kind of net installed around the bridge to stem it but the town council is literally all related and they're too busy funneling tax money to their cousins four provinces over to spend a penny of their hundred million+ embezzlement hoard. I know damn well it wouldn't amount to anything.
When I was a wee lad I lived near a monument to a Kiwi-favourite White Devil, which as far as I'm aware gets routinely vandalised in, let's say, dramatic ways. That sort of thing makes for an amusing, if old enough to retire, debate, which is prolly (and hopefully) beyond the scope of this fine thread.
Destruction and overall uncivilised behaviour against anything to do with public transport in particular makes me blind with rage.
Being a hypocritical artfag, tags on trains (the outside of wagons that is) and the like is fine by me. Anything other than that, big or small, no matter the motivation or lack thereof, makes me want to club the shit out of the culprit with my lacrosse stick like the most turbo-autistic vigilante ever.
In reality though, I don't fancy getting stabbed over a defaced network map and a couple shattered glass panels, so I'll just let Bogdan and Ayoub carry on chucking beer bottles at the info screens while I have my small dick fantasy where I'm some sort of Kick Ass of the metro station, like the scrawny bitch boy I am.
And now that I've gotten that out of my system, let me tell you a wee story from Argentina that was recently brought to my attention. Meet Gaturro:
This is an Argie comic strip whose author has been accused of plagiarising Garfield, Calvin & Hobbes, and several others without any shame, and acting like a massive dick when called out.
Now, there's this thing in Buenos Aires city centre called the Paseo de la Historieta ('Comic Strip Walk', more or less) which features statues of iconic Argie comic strip characters scattered about a few blocks. Of course, everyone's favourite arse-faced cat was featured too, his statue quickly becoming a magnet for vandalism as a way to vicariously "punish" his creator's lack of artistic integrity and lolcowish behaviour.
In response to the continuous defacing of his creation, Gaturro's author got this random girl to pose next to the wrecked statue and posted a bizarre story basically claiming she had made a perilous weeks-long journey from the confines of the Patagonia, on every means of transportation ever known to man, just to get to this wee Buenos Aires junction and have her picture taken with Gaturro. When she safely made it there and saw the absolute state of Argentine Nathfield here, she quickly jumped from the back of the elephant that had carried her on the last leg of her trek, and broke into tears:
Shortly afterwards, the city council decided to replace the statue with a new one, equipped with "new vandalism-proof technology". Naturally, Gaturro's creator took to Twitter to brag with his usual panache, pretty much saying "haters btfo" and plainly stating the exact day and time in which the new statue would be installed, bringing much joy to basically anyone in Buenos Aires with an internet connection.
The thing lasted about an hour before it was covered in cocks, and about a weekend before the city council had to retire it again:
Funnily enough, everyone though the flimsy yellow panels that surrounded it were the much touted vandalism-proof technology, and left them intact.
Apparently you can find 3D models of the statue (complete with anti-vandalism fence if you so desire) so you can print and vandalise your own:
