Had a little encounter at my shop.

[V4Vendetta]

My brother & I were at the shop Saturday doing a little work. My brother went outside for some fresh air. While he was outside he heard a noise at the back of the building. He walked back there & saw some white guy around 5'10" tall wearing a dark blue jacket with the hood on spray painting our building.

The guy saw my brother watching him & bolted through the woods towards the trailer park next door to us. My brother not being stupid, chose not to follow him when he read the graffiti. The guy had wrote in white spray paint "Blood Life" "In memory of Shawn" & "BLOODS".

When we returned to the shop on Monday to find that someone painted over it but the writing was still easily visible.

What should we do? I already asked my brother for a better discription & he couldn't give me one.

[markj]

Re paint the wall and forget it. Might want to chain up a mean dog behind the shop worked for us years ago.

We had kids roll the junk tires down the hill, like 30 of them. The dog worked.

[jfrey123]

Dummy camera out back with a sign that the area is under video survellience?

[Slopemeno]

The best antidote for graffiti is to immediatly paint over it. I lived in Alameda CA for a while and the city had an anti-graffiti task force that would come around and paint over any that was reported, and it seemed to keep it to the bare minimum.

Some security lights and a CCTV recording on a vcr probaly wouldnt hurt though.

[Kennedy124]

Mark you have serious problems. You would chain up an innocent animal behind a store all day just to use him has a deterrent.

Coward.

[Prophet]

Just mount a .50 cal on the top back of the store. Set ya a little dummy on it I surly doubt anyone is going to mess with your store.

[Wildalaska]

You would chain up an innocent animal behind a store all day just to use him has a deterrent.

What is this a PETA Board?

Coward.

Nice. :barf:

WildhelpmodshelpAlaska

[tony pasley]

Do not use a dummy camera because you are impling security and open yourself up to a lawsuit if anything happens behind your shop.

[KingofAttendance]

If he was writing something like "in memory of..." then I wouldn't worry about it too much, that was his way of paying respects to his fallen comrades and etc, no harm meant, its just a shame they cant do it somewhere else lol.

[ConcealCarryNY]

Mark you have serious problems. You would chain up an innocent animal behind a store all day just to use him has a deterrent.

Coward.

Way to have a positive contribution to the thread.

As for the OP's question I would say paint over it and call it a day. If it continues contact local PD and try to get guidance.

[meanoldman]

One of the weird laws in Texas is that you can shoot a tagger-but it has to be at night.

[Capt. Charlie]

Coward.

Way to have a positive contribution to the thread.

Agreed.

Closed.

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