David Orchard dedicated years to reporting vandals, trespassers, and car thieves. He assisted police with 23 successful prosecutions relating to the unmanned station but he has now been banned from contacting British Transport Police, over claims he called them 50 times in three months. Read the rest of the article here.

Read the article in Time magazine, featuring the guys from GRL (Graffiti Research Lab).

Serge Toussaint, a Miami-based, Haitian muralist, has been forced to paint over a part of one of his murals that depicts Martin Luther King, Jr. and Barack Obama because of insufficient permits. Except Toussaint was commissioned to paint the mural.

The Miami Herald reports that Toussaint was paid $3,000 by a city organization to paint the concrete poles of an I-95 underpass, employing the city’s motif of blues skies and clouds. However, he also painted a mural depicting Martin Luther King Jr and Barack Obama on the highway wall. Instead of appreciating the extra effort Toussaint made, this created quite a controversy. Elaine Black, president of the Liberty City Community Revitalization Trust, said, “We did not pay Serge to do that…He decided to put that one up.”

Two weeks after the mural was painted, an anonymous caller notified the Florida Department of Transportation, which ordered Toussaint to paint over Obama. Toussant reluctantly obeyed, but the FDOT also said that the picture of King might need to be removed as well, because it does not fit the original permit description.

“It was the most hurtful thing in my life,” Toussaint says, recalling taking a can of white acrylic to his Obama. “I cry. I cry. My wife tells me it’s okay, but it hurts me that they made me paint it off.”

The artist used white primer to cover Obama, and new callers have now accused him of “whitewashing” the presidential candidate. Read More here.

Vandals who bragged about their graffiti sprees on the internet have been captured by police in a series of early-morning raids. Officers seized more than 50 aerosol cans, canvasses and several computers in four swoops at houses in Peterborough and Norwich, in a crackdown on gangs who deface railway bridges, underpasses, homes and businesses with their ugly scrawls.

Detectives were hot on their trail after discovering a portfolio of photos showing their tags stretching from Orton to Stanground on the myspace website.

Read this rest of the article here.

Awhile back we had made a post “ TKO Stripper on the run“. Graffiti artist Candy Srichandr, in the graffiti crew TKO was on the run for shooting up a rival graffiti crew art show.

In the middle on the night on February 8, 2008, cops say Candy Srichandr was nabbed in Long Beach, Calif. Investigators were tracking her journey with the assistance of your leads, and they knew for sure she was hiding out in St. Louis and parts of Colorado.

It wasn’t until an anonymous tipster contacted a U.S. Marshal in Los Angeles to tell him that Srichandr may be hiding out at a residence in Long Beach. Our investigator and his team headed out to the location — but not expecting to find Srichandr.

They honestly thought she was still in Colorado. To their surprise, she was inside the residence, arrested her immediately, and shipped her off to the Van Nuys station in the San Fernando Valley. She’s locked behind bars, and awaiting her hearing with a judge.

The rest of the story can be found on the America’s Most Wanted site.

This is a video from the news about the city of Toronto trying to build legal graffiti art. The video also helps people understand that graffiti isn’t always gang related, the majority of the time its just art work. The video features a lot of graffiti from around Toronto.

This is really gross!

Centava Dozier, a 21 year old female from Houston, TX got a very unexpected surprise after waking up from a nap aboard an American Airlines flight.

Dozier was on a flight from DFW International airport to Los Angeles, CA, to visit some family and friends. When the flight took off, she was sitting on an unoccupied row on the plane and decided to get some rest.

When she woke up, she found a sticky substance in her hair along with a man masturbating in the seat right next to her!

To read the rest of the news article click here.

This is a little to funny. This is from The Beacon Journal on Sunday September 21, 2003. The article read:

“A 38-year-old Cole Avenue man reported that his home was invaded on Sept. 9. The man said that he was sitting home alone masterbating and watching a pornographic movie when a man came down into the basement, holding a gun, and started to videotape him. The man said that before he left, the intruder fed his dog some mushrooms and the dog died.”

This is a video of the Seventh Letter graffiti art show “Will Rise” on CNN news.

Four months ago, Denver became the first major metropolitan city in the nation to install anti-graffiti cams to try to cut down on the amount of graffiti. The only thing is after four months of them being used, there hasn’t been a single arrest. Read more about the article here.