Taggers
Taggers
In cities all over the world, people have to deal with something that some people think of as art, and others just think that it is nothing more than vandalism. That is tagging. Tagging is spray painting on something. Taggers leave their trademark or tag. A tag can be words or designs that are distinct to a person or group. Some time people are actually paid by the city to spray paint parts of the city or parts of buildings. Sometimes, the taggers or graffiti artists go after trains. Many artists make their living by taking and publishing pictures of their work, although it is vandalism on somebody else’s property. At my high school, all of the seniors were charged with vandalism. For years it has always been tradition to paint class logs, or names of the girl that you like on the banks of the river. It has been done like this for years. Every year, at the end of the school year, around graduation time, is when this ritual takes place. All of the kids get together after the big game and partake in the action. Only this year someone got tired of it and notified the police. Now I know that the police have know this has been going on for years, and it had always been expected. As we were painting our spots on the riverbank, we saw the flashing lights of the cop cars. We ran down the riverside and eventually got away, but about thirty others were arrested and taken down to jail for vandalism. The parents protested this and all the kids were let go. The police department was made out to be bad guys in the newspaper and the police never arrested kids for this again.
