Someone is going to have to explain tagging to me.
It’s a euphenism for spray-paint graffiti, trying to make them sound like it’s art of some sort. The way someone who does graffiti paints his name at the end of his work (like an artist would sign their painting) is referred to as his ‘tag’, hence the term ‘tagging’. Granted, occasionally people who are really good at it are paid to do installations on canvases, or hired to paint a mural on someone’s building, or tag a West Side Story set so it looks more authentic than it would if all the nerdy kids who built the set attempted to do it themselves, but by and large, ‘tagging’= vandalism.
It's the destructive 'marking' of boundaries for a certain group of punks. I used to help paint it out for the City of LA (Volunteer group)on many occasions. Taggers are relentless in their pursuit of nothingness. They are vandals.
Where were the parents of this teen at 2am?