So, this morning I was on a walk with the kids when we saw a lady on the main street of our neighborhood scrubbing her fence. Apparently last night a 13ish yr old boy tagged her fence and her neighbors fence. She was irate! Swearing that WHEN this "punk" gets caught, he will be going to jail for all of the damage he has done. Now, in my mind I thought....really, must we use our tax dollars to pay for yet ANOTHER punk kid to be in juvy just because his parents have no desire to know where he is or what he is doing? Instead let's find a better punishment.
I am seriously contemplating printing up this flier and putting it on everyone's door in our neighborhood.
To the Disrespectful Taggers and his Ignorant Parents:
It seems as though your child's artistic ability has been ignored and over looked. While you, the parent, are doing who knows what, your child has decided to take his "art" to the streets. This would not bother the general public as much if it was done in a tactful manner such as in an art studio, for charity, etc. Since it seems as though your child has no concern for the amount of money a new fence costs or the amount of time and labor it takes to repaint, scrub, or pressure wash a fence, I have come up with a sensible conclusion to this matter.
First and foremost, we the neighbors who live in this neighborhood will now be on the look out for YOUR child. WHEN (not if, but when) your child is caught we will of course make sure to have this issue documented. At that point, we will then take matters into our own hands. There will be no "juvy" time for your teen (or tween), instead you will be able to watch as we destroy YOUR fence, house, grass, or whatever else your child has managed to damage while on his "tagging episode." Then, both you and your teen will be supervised in cleaning not only the damage to your residence BUT also the damage to everyone's house, fence, etc that is from the hands of your child. If it wasn't your child who tagged a particular fence, that's okay, they can still clean it.
Let this be a lesson to those out there....if it's not your property then LEAVE IT ALONE!
It seems as though your child's artistic ability has been ignored and over looked. While you, the parent, are doing who knows what, your child has decided to take his "art" to the streets. This would not bother the general public as much if it was done in a tactful manner such as in an art studio, for charity, etc. Since it seems as though your child has no concern for the amount of money a new fence costs or the amount of time and labor it takes to repaint, scrub, or pressure wash a fence, I have come up with a sensible conclusion to this matter.
First and foremost, we the neighbors who live in this neighborhood will now be on the look out for YOUR child. WHEN (not if, but when) your child is caught we will of course make sure to have this issue documented. At that point, we will then take matters into our own hands. There will be no "juvy" time for your teen (or tween), instead you will be able to watch as we destroy YOUR fence, house, grass, or whatever else your child has managed to damage while on his "tagging episode." Then, both you and your teen will be supervised in cleaning not only the damage to your residence BUT also the damage to everyone's house, fence, etc that is from the hands of your child. If it wasn't your child who tagged a particular fence, that's okay, they can still clean it.
Let this be a lesson to those out there....if it's not your property then LEAVE IT ALONE!
What do you think? Too harsh? I mean it's got to be better than the slap on the hand the cops seem to do with the taggers these days.
Life is Good, God is Great.
2 comments:
the problem is, most of the taggers are probably not from your neighborhood so you will just provoke your neighbors further.
Love it! - lol about the title though.. I thought it was going to be about tagging pictures on Facebook! Shows how outta touch with reality I am!
About the situation - its something I would do! That probably means you shouldn't do it though... I tend to lose all tact sometimes.
Do you guys have a housing committee or what ever its called? see again out of touch with reality-
See if they could do something about it or you could try to set up a neighborhood watch group in your neighborhood to stop people from doing this...
personally I would find the kid and tag his face with a permanent sharpie .... LOSER right on his forehead... but again... if I think its a good idea - you probably shouldn't do it.
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