Passenger

Public Transport's worse vandals....school kids and grafiti artists!

i'm not sure. what's the difference between this and advertising billboards, placards (commercial tags) that are in our faces all the time? fine, fair enough they are abusing public space but so are advertisers who force us to look at ads we don't necessarily want to see every single day. is tagging not voicing the question, "what gives them the right over us?"

@ Sam Buk:

I don't know if I agree with you. First, advertisers pay for their publicity, what the people who manage public sapce do with that money is a different busines, but if they use it for maintenance and safety, then I don't have anything against it. The graffiti, as much as I take my kicks from looking at it and as much as it tells me about who uses public transport (and in a way informs me about parts of our society), most of it is just nonsense, I think we would all have to gain it was more intelligent and informed, if it would be provocative and would touch sensitive aspects of our society. As I see it now it's just someone releasing their frustrations or showing off without any real consequence on our daily lives, besides a certain momentary distraction... which is not so different from the first graffitis made during the Roman Empire, more than 20 centuries ago, have we evolved that little since then?

Do you think that writing "I love cock" (or any of the other tags for that matter) makes any statement against obtrusive publicity? I don't think most of these so called graffiti "artists" try to fight any fires...