Tagging

With your donation, you get a brick to tag!

Looks like the word “caught” but they realized they missed the “a” and put it above. An homage to where they were arrested?

An attempt to cover up what someone scribbled on their wall.

The Sotel gang’s tags are pretty noticeable now in my neighborhood, scary! There’s been walls that had the tag painted over and now have been tagged again! “S13” shows up on gas pumps, signs, benches, walls, you name it, they tag it.

Seriously, what is wrong with the “kids” today? Why must they tag every little thing? Do they think that their rivals are looking that low to the ground … and would they care? Or are they doing it to see how long it would take the owners to see it and paint over it? I just don’t get it.

Another set of initials that I have no idea what they stand for. When we were younger we put them in cement … in our own backyards. But I like the ring to Nezber. I might name my next pet Nezber.

Hopefully the ones intended for this message can read and understand it because I certainly don’t.

There has been construction going on for some time on this building near my house. During that time, as usual, they put up a wall to block the dust and noise and uglyness during this time This is just fodder for taggers. Well, they just couldn’t leave nature alone and tagged it too.

I must say this was the most colorful use of graffiti I’ve seen on the side of this section of the freeway. It was there for a couple of weeks and I managed to take some pictures before it was removed.

How appropriate for the tagger to let us know what we already feel. Stop tagging!!

Even the dog isn’t a deterrence to the taggers.

I’ve been spending time just looking down for evidence and it’s even found in the most inconspicuous places.

Telephone pole conduit is a popular tagging spot too.

Is it a message that “zombies” are coming?
Another inconspicuous place.

Wow! Someone must be mad at the person in the house this is in front of or perhaps this random corner was used to let out some aggression.

Can’t make out what this is saying. What is the point of tagging if one cannot read it. If you know, you know!

I don’t know what the letters represent but they’ve been there for years.

These covers are very popular. Are these names or messages?

Someone is loved! Painted in-front of a bus stop on Pico Boulevard.

ZOC it like it’s hot!

A favorite spot to put a name or message.

Sotel is the local gang. I didn’t think they were around anymore but I see them tagging new things every day.

When I saw this paint splatter on the street, I immediately thought of Kanji characters. I don’t know Kanji but a long time ago, there was a website that helped you narrow down the characters until you found the one you were looking for. Some day I’ll try to figure out this character.

I quite often see tagging on the man hole covers as I’m walking my dog.

The very next day after taking this picture, the wall was painted white again. Two days later when I went by, it was tagged again by Sotel.

Public phones are rare these days since the majority of the people have cell phones. That leaves the old phones targets for vandalism.

Boy! This is the most markings I’ve ever seen by city personnel on the street. I have no idea what this is telling them but I worry what they are going to do because this is a busy street. If they plan to rip this street up, the traffic in this area is going to be horrendous!

One of the few happy sentiments. When I was taking this picture, a guy walked by me and said he just took a picture of the same thing the day before. Must be a popular tag.

This business just can’t catch a break. They tagged every sign on this business.

Tagging on windows is not often seen. This one, you actually do not see it very much unless you are at the right angle. A message to a rival that it’s about to get serious?

What an image to see as you step out the back door of your house. Are there children living there? This is why kids are afraid of clowns.

An alien life form left us a message. What can it mean?

I see this truck whenever I go to the gas station in this area. It’s a good idea to let them tag the truck instead of the brick wall, which would be hard to remove paint from.

The word on the left reminds me of one of my favorite comic characters – Satchel from Get Fuzzy.

At least they didn’t tag the entire mirror so it becomes useless.