Why Is Graffiti Illegal?

[bdcjacko]

Don't paint on my wall, that is why it is illegal.

 

[CosmoK]

...because 91.9% of graffiti is tagging (tags) and 99.9% of those are sprayed on private or state owned property.

Got someone to "brighten up" one of the walls in the kindergarten I worked in before going back to uni. 'Twas really a work of art, and the kids loved it.

 

[HerbertTheHamster]

because most of it is just tags which look like fucking shit

if i came and poured brown paint all over your furniture you'd probably be pissed

 

[liquidsolid]

I personally love seeing graffiti, I live only an hour from New York City and NYC has some of the most artistic tags in the world.

It's reason for being illegal has most likely been stated already, but it basically comes down to the issue of private property.

 

[Valdus]

If it's artistic and done with permission I see no problem with it. It's illegal however because most of it is juevnille ("LOL u Sux 8===D") and done without permission.

 

[teisjm]

Obviously, people don't want random retards with little to no artistic skill sparying shit over their buildings.

But i would be wondering why not, if someone skilled went to city hall with a portfolio of his/her work and asked for permission, to paint some booring grey walls with something cool, that wouldn't be offensive, and was told no.

Then again, if some guy is allowed to do it, there'll be tons of retards who won't be able to understand why he can paint on the wall, but they can't smear their crappy tags all over the palce...

I actually thin more legal tag-walls would help reduce unwanted grafitti problems to some extend.