"The Art of Graffitti Writing"

[simon]

Only just found this thread.... Been in hospital and computer broke...

Ceejache you are 100% CORRECT........................................... .......

How many YOB'S are going to go to college to LEARN an art?????????????????

So it is NOT going to increase yobbish behaviour......YEH........

Karate/martial arts is a good example I have known a few people who at the time of going to learn a martial art may have fought in the street.......... After learning the ART of fighting would never fight in the street..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They did not need to they had the inner calm of confidence and did not need to prove anything....

A problem solved not created.... Knowledge is a VERY powerful thing..

You can have some karma when it lets me

[Creweboy]

Its took me a long time to read the whole thread on here and I would just like to add my point of view.

Lets face it no one wants to see mindless graffitti spread all over town. End of. I think every post on this thread agrees with that. What I would like to see is, like Ceejache, is a designated area where 'kids' can do this. Look at the skate park on St James' Square, every drove past there recently. I honestly think that has been one of the best things HBC has done with its money, and god knows this doesn't happen too often. The skate park hs solved the problem of Skaters hanging out around the town hall and town centre being a nuisance. As often graffitti and skating seem to go hand in hand, that park has become a sort of grafitti centre, and mostly it is contained to inside the walls away from view.

I totally agree with Ceejache, HBC should set out similar 'areas' and if I may be so bold to name it, please dont laugh, 'an urban gallery'......

Lets face it, vandalism and crime is born largely out of boredom...give the kids something to do and somewhere to do it.