Posted on 07/25/2022 6:23:30 PM PDT by grundle
A business owner expressed his frustration over the repeated graffiti vandalism of his San Francisco restaurant after receiving a violation notice from the city to clean up or be fined.
Viet Nguyen, owner of the soon-to-open Gao Viet Kitchen in the Inner Sunset, told NBC Bay Area that he is tired of his restaurant being targeted by vandals and repeatedly having to paint over the graffiti.
The latest tagging of his restaurant also came with a violation notice from the San Francisco Department of Public Works last week. The notice instructed Nguyen to clean up the graffiti in 30 days or face a $362 fine.
“The graffiti, it costs me a lot of money because every tag, I’ve got to go paint that thing. I don’t actually expect it to stop, but the most frustrating thing is, I keep on getting tagged by the city, but what can I do?” Nguyen told ABC7 News. “I clean it up, I board it up, or whatever I need to do and it comes back.”
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Punish the innocent, reward the guilty.
It’s the Democratic-Communist way.
Bet they do nothing to the vandals.
Death to Taggers!
To add to that....city creates the problem and enables the problem to continue.
This guy seems to be one of the good people who have yet to realize that we live in a postmodern America.
His expectation of reasonableness will be met with severe and relentless punishment.
Seriously, when did we start tolerating graffiti? It’s the sign of a decaying civilization.
My buddy watched a city employee spray paint the cracks on his sidewalk and put a fix-it tag on his door. To fix it he needed a permit. $100.
Then the cities began painting the roads themselves with this graffiti, and they prosecuted people who tried to clean it up.
-PJ
His first mistake was moving to San Francisco.
His second mistake was opening a business there.
Enjoy you liberal vote outcome good and hard. “please sir, may I have another?”
He should be glad they don’t fine him for the crap on the sidewalks
Sure bet, especially if they *are* the vandals.
Spray and ticket.
Literally a case of rinse and repeat.
Paging Jethro Bodine’s replacement! Start enforcing the vandalism laws already!
Tell the City it’s Modern Art and ask the City to underwrite the Art Project!
Which is why we need it. It's not about the graffiti, it's about the tolerance of it. It's a clear warning to anyone coming into an area that the place is overrun with intellectually stunted individuals and the city will not do anything to change it. Politicians lie about the health of a city in fear of the bond ratings dropping further but graffiti doesn't lie.
Graffiti is one of the indicators of decay that is often present farther out from the core problem areas, especially on bridges and overpasses as one approaches the no-go zone. The more you see, the closer you're getting.
The other indicators of decay require actually entering the no-go zone.
-bars on windows
-roll-down gates for storefronts
-an absence of stores that are part of a larger chain (auto parts stores and fast food restaurants excluded)
-cars missing hubcaps
-cars with different color body panels
-weeds growing at curbs
-empty lots, especially with garbage dumped in them
-garbage on the streets
-empty store fronts
-an inordinate number of liquor stores, nail salons, and bodegas
-numerous individuals drinking from liquor or beer bottles in a bag
-a pervasive smell of marijuana, especially cheap skunk weed
-missing or damaged parking meters
-dwellings missing outer storm doors
-broken windows
-cars double parked for hours
-etc.
When thinking about this sort of problem, I’ve wondered what would happen if walls were “pre-tagged” with a tag-like nonsense pattern. Something like “gray snow” on a TV screen or a weird, colorfuld urban camo pattern that doesn’t readily repeat.
Someone comes along and really tags it with gang signs or graffiti.
Rather than repainting the whole wall or carefully covering the offending tag with matching paint, just paint over parts of it with swatches of color in the urban camo pattern. Just enough to make it illegible. Broken up. Unrecognizable.
Then the offending tag itself becomes part of “background noise” of the urban camoflauge.
Don’t clean it off, wash it off, paint over it totally. The idea is break up the tags with less effort than it takes to put them up.
Western civilization should now brace for impact...
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