Krystal, the office manager of Bedrooms and More, alerted us to a crime that happened in their parking garage on Friday, August 19th.
When watching the video, the vandals first appear after 53 seconds. This all occurred in afternoon at a little after 4pm on Friday, 8/19/16. The teens(?) spend about 10 minutes defacing the parking garage until they are scared off by a passerby. Who knows what else they would have done had they not been stopped? One of the teens then returns to take pictures of his “work”. It took hours to undo what only took minutes to “create”.
Im not sure if anyone would recognize these kids, but it would surely be nice if someone let them know that this was not a victimless crime.
Apparently the person who caught the vandals in the act didn’t approach Bedrooms and More to let them know what happened. The police were not called, but the folks at Bedrooms and More would love to hear from you if you recognize these kids.
I think the shorter-haired one is named Arya Stark.
(Note to all the humor-impaired peeps on Wallyhood: that’s a joke.)
That is totally inappropriate to publish the name of a minor on a public…what? No, I haven’t watched the series, why? Oh, seriously? Oh, umm…OK, never mind.
Aw, isn’t that sweet. The little darlings are expressing themselves through “art.”
“Who knows what else they would have done had they not been stopped?”
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I’d wager, very seriously, that they’d have… finished painting a tree. Maybe a maple or a gumtree.
That typed, they do of course need to make it right (apologize, and paint over it or pay for the costs to do so). But then, when they do, someone help them get business cards + teach them to ask for money and client input before they start painting. ;P
Little creeps. I hope someone recognizes them and alerts the authorities. Restitution would be a good lesson.
I was the guy who kicked them out. There were a bunch of apathetic civilians at the bus stop waiting, but they were either earphoned up or didn’t give a crap. When I walked by I first smelled the fumes and then heard the telltale “shhh” mixed with rattling sounds.
It’s not true that Bedrooms and More wasn’t alerted. I phoned the owner (no answer) and the store main line. The store guy said “thanks, we pretty much have to paint that garage over several days a week, we’ll do it tomorrow morning before opening,” and didn’t ask for any info about me or the perps.
The perps were about 14 years old, pimply, white anglo, longhair boy and a girl. In their defense, their reply to “what in the f*** is this [that you are doing in broad daylight in public]?” was, “some [self-adjudged artistically] good s***,” so one does have the feeling that rather than outright vandalism for its own sake, they were little proto-Banksies yet to hone the right skill set and were sort of re-using the vellum in the old masters’ tradition.
The boy was almost shaking in fright but they both tried to put a brave face on it. He started walking north up the block as I followed him out, but she went and sat down at the bus stop. A few seconds later, he realized that he, too, needed to catch the #26 bus home and went back to sit with his friend. It kind of took some of the piss and vinegar out of me to see how pathetic and goofy their little heist was.
As to why I didn’t do anything more proactive, I was ducking out to grab a six-pack before I had to get on a phone call of indeterminate length and stressfulness for my work, and I’m pretty sure I was wearing sandals and a cotton sweater. So, hardly in the condition or inclination for jiu-jitsu on the mean streets, although in retrospect they were harmless and it would have been trivial to bluff them into turning over their spray paint, but even then I’d be sitting there holding a bunch of stinky spray paint and dealing with delinquents who are inclined to leave, instead of commencing happy hour.
So, yeah, WTF kids, but more properly, WTF lazy “citizens” who were sitting there at the bus stop and/or walking by as this all happened. If you let people crap all over everything you will live in a crappy place. Try some directly communicated social opprobrium, it can work wonders!