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I happened to get a "before" shot, just a couple weeks ago







today











for those keeping score, that's, "poverty-despair / faith-based-wealth = me smoking"

Weirdest graffiti sighting of the month: Saw some today at the intersection of Warson and Old Warson. Civic Progress in da hood, yo!

TGE-ATW wrote:The south wall of the Roberts Orpheum got hit hard. They spray painted all over the stucco and some on the limestone where the facade returns. I'm thinking castration is in order. Its easy to get spray paint off of stucco right?

If I were the Roberts Bros and I had been contributing funding to help pay for the army of CID guides we have riding around doing nothing, I'd be kinda pissed that someone had sufficient time to create the elaborate, but wholy undecipherable graffiti around the outside of my building. The same could be said of the cops and the Roberts Bros own security staff. I thought we had a sufficiently vibrant and bustling neighborhood to prevent this sort of thing... It would have taken them some serious amounts of time to paint that crap.



Rant switch off... I'm still hoping it was done in chalk and will wash away during the next rain.

The Central Scrutinizer wrote:My guys from my country club were out there tagging over the weekend.



Word.

Was it Bornwell, Marriedwell and Van Hoogstratten again? I swear, those punks are begging for another beatdown.



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Seriously, the Orpheum would have taken a long time, and the perps would have been extremely visible. I am sure it happened late at night when the CID guys were at home, tucked away in their snug little pork barrel beds. I just find this sh*t so frustrating when it is on the facade of a beautiful building. The Facade for *****'s sake!

How much damage do you think the graffiti will cost? A couple hundred thousand dollars and the possible permanent loss of some of the marble/cornice work?

^ No way. I don't think it's multiple 100's of thousands . . . . they will need to use a non-corrosive chemical and a light abrasive. If that fails you go at it a little harder and then re-coat the terra cotta. It's not pretty, but this isn't the first time something like this has been hit with graffiti and not the first time it will be restored.

We should fire half of the CID guys and hire snipers armed with traquilizer darts. Or sh*t, we probably wouldn't have to hire them, I'd volunteer. Can you imagine how much fun it would be to pop one of these guys, stuff him in a sack, and leave the bag on the steps of the police station? Maybe we could even put a raccoon or a possum in the sack with them, just to make it more interesting.

TGE-ATW wrote:We should fire half of the CID guys and hire snipers armed with traquilizer darts. Or sh*t, we probably wouldn't have to hire them, I'd volunteer. Can you imagine how much fun it would be to pop one of these guys, stuff him in a sack, and leave the bag on the steps of the police station? Maybe we could even put a raccoon or a possum in the sack with them, just to make it more interesting.

Where do we sign up? Can we fire more than half of the CID guides? I am almost positive I have provided more assistance to out of towners than any CID guide. (Mostly answering questions like, "Uh, what do you DO here? There are like no stores or movie theaters or anything!")



Seriously, I know this had to have been done in the wee hours of the night... when it was quiet enough to hear multiple spray cans from more than a block away.



Is anyone able to decipher the no doubt socially conscious message contained in the offending graffiiti?

DeBaliviere wrote:

The Central Scrutinizer wrote:My guys from my country club were out there tagging over the weekend.



Word.

Was it Bornwell, Marriedwell and Van Hoogstratten again? I swear, those punks are begging for another beatdown.

At the recent Backstoppers dinner, Fred Hanser joked that he wasn't sure if he was a Bornwell or a Marriedwell.

did a quick search and found some ED BOXX matches

dont have time to post pics so here is the link to flicker



http://flickr.com/search/?q=ed%20boxx&w=51252573%40N00



seems like some nice upstanding folks from EAST ST LOUIS, would be my guess.



BTW also some good photos of other interesting STL pics

^ Hopefully the police will show this cretin "no foregiveness".

I found him, and in Missouri. Just ignore the fact that he's been dead for forty years.

http://www.members.aol.com/debbieoverto ... html#BODY3

Ed Boxx has also tagged one of the legs of the McArthur Bridge at Broadway. I hate vandals.



my 1000th post!

brickandmortar wrote:I hate vandals.

Me too. Especially Ed Boxx.

brickandmortar wrote: I hate vandals.

Vandals I can handle. It's those damn Ostrogoths I can't stand.

I don't have a problem with the bridge graffiti, I'm not a fan of the orpheum graffiti however. There are plenty of things in St. Louis that you can perform your art/message on without messing up an historical landmark.

Vandals I can handle. It's those damn Ostrogoths I can't stand.