Taggers in pink while cleaning up their workForcing taggers to wear pink vests as punishment reduces tagging, says Eastern Suburbs Community Constable Theo Gommans. But councillor Iona Pannett said the scheme was akin to Nazi Germany's persecution of gay men during World War II and would reinforce prejudice against gay and lesbian people.
Pink Vests for Taggers Divisive
The Wellington community police constable who is making taggers wear pink vests as punishment has prompted alarm from the youth group OUT THERE.
“Wearing pink tagger vests draws on homophobic fears of wearing pink, and the whole concept of embarrassing young people rather than strengthening them is appalling.” said Nathan Brown, National Coordinator of OUT THERE, a youth development organisation for non-heterosexual and transgender youth.
UPDATE
Stuff: Anti-tagging crusader-cop Theo Gommans nominates himself for Intellect of the Year 2008: Gommans said the culprit did not fit the usual tagger's profile. "I put money on the idiot who has done this is not a tagger. Taggers do it for their own fame; this guy is just a clown who wanted to be a smartarse."
Y'think? Cos, like, "Vest Wanted" is an awesome tag, tru dat 4 realz.
The perverse irony is that the culprit is surely now more famous than any tagger would ever hope to become.
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Today Stuff reports that The Man has noticed the pink graffiti around Newtown.
An 'idiot' who scrawled "Vest Wanted" in fluoro-pink paint on Newtown buildings could have the request granted if collared for the crime.
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[Community Constable Theo] Gommans said the culprit did not fit the usual tagger's profile.
"I put money on the idiot who has done this is not a tagger. Taggers do it for their own fame; this guy is just a clown who wanted to be a smartarse."
Whoa, they're profiling taggers now - like the FBI and the "Silence of the Lambs" and all that. I like to imagine the anti-graffiti squad retracing the steps of taggers, trying to get into their minds.
I ask myself who are the real taggers? Spraycan wielding narcisists who leave spidery text everywhere or developers who leave eye-gouging 'buildings' everywhere? The Briscoes building on Taranaki trumps all the tagging in the lower Wellington region combined - how you can construct such a low-rent piece of shit then paint it in loud primary colours and not be put in the stocks and have smelly refuse thrown at you is beyond me.
no. 0003: Not to mention the horrible grey paint that anti-tagging crews use to paint over.
Not all concrete is grey, and it's even worse when non-grey surfaces get painted grey. Ugh.
But, yeah, that Briscoes building could do with a pink vest.
yay for fluro and well the need for a real reaction. clowns cant run the country because its The Scrooges who seem to run the country (or think they control human nature and free expression) remember a public is not a term. ... its all private..
Tagging creates jobs and is good for the economy.
Not only do taggers spend money on paint and supplies, it gives people jobs to paint over it (who buy their paint from local dealers), cops to chase them, courts to charge them and journalists jobs to write about them.
Without these artists, New Zealands economy would forego numerous transactions having echoing effects throughout local communities. What if someone in your family made a living from an industy that benefits from taggers?
Support New Zealands economy and share your art with your local community
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