[taxcontrol]

IOW, private property owner uses his property the way he wants.

[Enchante]

moral: don’t create your art on someone else’s property, unless you don’t care to have any control over its fate.

[RegulatorCountry]

The locals in Calais are mostly sick of the camps and the crap that comes with them. Banksy is passé now besides, and was crap when it was hot anyway. Good on the property owner for painting it over, he was under no obligation to maintain the dated splatterings of trendoid trash.

[JayGalt]

I wouldn’t want that mural on my building no matter what someone said it was worth.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

[heterosupremacist]

[Rurudyne]

Ways to REALLY freshen the wall: repaint the Mural as Deadpool and ponies from MLP. The raft as a giant Chimichanga.

[Teflonic]

He was foolish not to cut it out and sell it. The removal operation and repairs would offer the highest profit margin he’d ever come across.

[dfwgator]

Needs to be done with all graffiti. And taggers should be shot.

[SpaceBar]

Third world literature for illiterates.

[a fool in paradise]

The anti-statue people are going to throw a monkeypoo fit that this was not preserved.

[Oatka]

Read the book Wreck of the Medusa: The Tragic Story of the Death Raft, and learn how the French maxed out the phrase "Sauve qui Peut" (Those who can ,save themselves).