Tbf that’s a decent use of tax money imo, and I’m the only one I know complaining about taxes being wasted.
I’m also an (ex) vandal, so I have some perspective I suppose. It’s likely that the tags on the side were done for normal tagging reasons, “I exist, everywhere you look in this city you’ll see my name, yadda yadda,” and they may have tagged the windows, but the real destruction of the windows was likely some very angsty teen who feels like they have no control of their life (and unlike the taggers) their anger makes them channel it into pure destruction rather than the “destruction” with the paint that creates art.
Personally, I love creative destruction, destroying something to create something new is always interesting to me, be it graffiti or an art installation made of old broken CRTs or something, but pure wanton destruction out of anger is a waste imo.
Dookieman12@piefed.social 4 months ago
Perhaps the vandals are sending a message they’d prefer their tax dollars be spent more productively?
I can’t help but feel there’s a ton of missing context here.
feetandballs@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Who makes that point with $16 a playground basketball?
grranibal@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
No, this was surely someone stealing the equipment. If someone just wanted to send a message they wouldn’t take the equipment
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Tbf that’s a decent use of tax money imo, and I’m the only one I know complaining about taxes being wasted.
I’m also an (ex) vandal, so I have some perspective I suppose. It’s likely that the tags on the side were done for normal tagging reasons, “I exist, everywhere you look in this city you’ll see my name, yadda yadda,” and they may have tagged the windows, but the real destruction of the windows was likely some very angsty teen who feels like they have no control of their life (and unlike the taggers) their anger makes them channel it into pure destruction rather than the “destruction” with the paint that creates art.
Personally, I love creative destruction, destroying something to create something new is always interesting to me, be it graffiti or an art installation made of old broken CRTs or something, but pure wanton destruction out of anger is a waste imo.