In
county court today, seventeen members of a graffiti removal team were
charged with destroying and defacing public property. Seen to be
armed with metal-scraper-tipped poles, the individuals were witnessed
poking at and otherwise leaving large and prominent scratches upon
dozens of utility and traffic-signal poles throughout the greater Los
Angeles area (LA). In their defense, the accused stated that they had
been hired to remove accumulations of stickers, wheat-paste posters,
and other street art, and that the scratches were merely a byproduct
of their lawful efforts. Judge Geisternand, presiding, allowed as
evidence tapes from cameras operated by the city's Department of
Transportation (LADoT) that had filmed inadvertently at least eight
of the seventeen individuals using paint-brush-tipped broom-sticks to
paint a great number of poles with layer upon layer of a light-gray
paint so thoroughly underwhelming as to cause passing drivers to fall
asleep at the wheel. Pictures of the damage perpetrated by these
Artwork Desecration Teams can be found at the LADoT's own website,
under subsection Lunacy, by clicking the tab entitled Oh My What Have
We Done.
When
asked about the reasons why LA chooses to defile indiscriminately its
very own precious and irretrievable works of art, the honorable K. D.
Geisternand stated from among the darker recesses of her chambers:
“How these people are allowed to deface and to destroy this city's
street art; how they are paid to thoroughly scratch up previously
untouched metal telephone poles; how they are sent out, in broad
fucking daylight, to unceremoniously paint over some of the finest
graffiti the world has ever seen; these things I do not understand.”
The seventeen were released with a severe warning, but Judge
Geisternand docked the graffiti removal teams' organizer, a company
owned by the company formerly known as Halliburton, a surliberty of
ten whorphans, and sentenced its executive officers to life without
joy.
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