There is a retard making graffiti in my area and I'm tired of seen it. I called the city services and they are useless, they only cleaned a couple of them and did a piss ass job. No one does anything and I'm tired, I want to do something good, but I don't want to damage the buildings. The motherfucker painted bricks, marble, plastic, stone and basically most materials you can think off and you can't treat them the same way.Also if you know some way I could catch him and give him a scare. I think he goes graffiti around night-morning because I hear loud music around that time but I'm not sure and I want to catch him red handed.
>>2988348Collect some feral dogs (with food) and keep them fed so they hang around the area.
>>2988352I don't live in a third world country (yet) but I'm seeing the degradation in my neighborhood and I want to fight back. My question was more about tips and tricks for removing graffiti, what materials do I need, etc.
>>2988354>what materials do I needThe internets is saying "World's Best Graffiti Remover" and "Elephant Snot" depending on the surface type, followed by a pressure washer. Apply the solvent a few times over a 15 minute period before washing it.
>>2988348Get some cheap light-gray latex paint and a big paint brush. Latex is water based and so won't harm anything. Every 15 minutes you spend paints over 2 hours of his graffiti. He'll get tired of this and move on.
Removing spray paint from rough masonry surfaces like concrete, brick, stucco, etc. is damn near impossible. And trying to remove it from a painted surface is just going to fuck the paint and require repainting. So in the end, it's way easier and faster to just paint over graffiti than to try and remove it.
>>2988348In the next few days, I'm going to pull off a major heist (Remember SABER in Los Angeles? lol). Nobody can stop me.
>>2988348fresh paint.
>>2988379>SABERhis finest work lol
>>2988348>I called the city services and they are uselessBear in mind that the cops/city may just be collecting "evidence" until it reaches a certain $ threshold, and then they can charge them with felony instead of a misdemeanour.Even if you decide to resolve it yourself, keep pestering the city with photographs so they gradually pile up more and more evidence.
I'm glad for your advice, but honestly I was expecting someone here with experience dealing with graffiti. I don't want to paint over it I want to try to remove it, I've seen videos on YouTube where they remove paintings even on bricks, but dunno if that's false advertisement or if there are different kinds of graffiti and not all works with it.
at least put up a security camera if it keeps happening.
>>2988348put cameras, get the little shit ang give him a good beatingif the graffiti issue continues, repeat the beating partit's called prevention
>>2988492Snare the bastard and enslave/sell it. It's probably an 'undocumented' so nobody will even notice.
>>2988348Waaay back when I lived in a Los Angeles burb, some kids started tagging an electrical box on the corner. Repainting the box just gave them a blank canvas to do it again.I knew an artist at the time so we took a different approach and just added pink sparkles and hearts to the existing tags, plus 'trans rights' and a little rainbow. Stayed like that for a few days, then "someone" splashed gray paint over the whole thing. City finally repainted & it stayed unmarked for a few months.
>>2988348Bro, why are you ready to die on this hill and get confrontational over someone else's property in a society that doesn't give a fuck? Your morals are right but sooner or later you will have to accept that these morals are to be applied to your closest people, not society in general. You can either paint your own stuff on the dude's graffiti to troll him, cover it like>>2988360said and win the war of attrition, or like, physically hurt the guy. Reporting him to the police is useless, you'd have to record him doing the deed plus capture his face/features/car plates to prove it was him. You might never get the chance to get all that without spending too much effort or time on it. So effective solutions are to either stop caring or become a bigger menace than the guy.
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>>2988534I want to still try. I want to still clean it. Again, I'm asking for tricks and materials and advice to clean graffiti from different surfaces. The only one that even tried to write the bare minimum was>>2988356Me planting cameras and giving a beating to the dude making graffiti is another story.
>>2988543Do you even own a pressure washer?
>>2988543Anti-graffiti coating would make future removal much easier.
>>2988546Yes>>2988560What's that
>>2988543Okay, my best advice would be to try chlorinated rubber thinner. It's used to clean paint brushes and I used it to remove my own graffiti off the wall but it didn't come off perfect mainly because the surface was very coarse and it would shred anything I would wipe the wall with. Your wall is like that also, probably, so you'd need to buy a pressure washer or apply solvent first and then use pressure washer (wear some protective gear in that case because you can get splashed with solvent)
>>2988543>excuse after excusewell, you can always whine about it on 4chan i guess
>>2988360This. Took four tag and paint over cycles before the asshole that was tagging our building to move on somewhere else. Once he stopped, we color matched the wall to restore it to it's normal state but during the "war", we used cheap white paint from a five gallon drum.
>>2988348We had a guy who was tagging his moniker "Eager" all over eveything. People said, "What do?"My suggestion: just add "supports Trump in 2028"
>>2988585You should've just changed it to NEager.
>>2988348Impressive that (so many) decades later, still no one knows any better than scrapping grafittis off walls.It was probably in the fucking 90s, if not earlier that french KF Siceront came up with an anti-grafitti coating (both gloss and matt finishes), with which you can just rinse grafittis right off.
>>2988560>FutureHoly fucking kek>>2988630
>>2988630>Fucking niggerworld...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-graffiti_coating
>>2988630>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-graffiti_coatingCouldn't you just coat the surface with silicone lubricant spray? That shit will make paint fish-eye like crazy...
Is there a graffiti remover with time release? Asking for public appropriated artwork such as anthropomorphs dancing with children, obese blind melon men, and other thought crimes.
>>2988682Chalk
>>2988348Start graffiting over his tag with some remark on his style, or append something slandering to it.If he has a tag start posting flyers with "ATTENTION [photo of the tag] is a registered pedophile, if you see this graffiti on your street your children might be in danger, don't let them hang around unattended".Hire a graffiti artist and make him cover the tags with some nice graffiti artwork.Stop caring.So many options.
>>2988712>append something slandering to it.A simple "IS GAY" after the tag might do the trick nicely.
