It took vandals one day to deface SF's new $3.5 million parks

[Heywood J]

150. Back in the day, we used to call that kind of thing "anti-social".

It's not "awesome", cool, or edgy to unilaterally decide how a public space will be used without consideration of the larger public, whether you're a New York cop who decides those people have no right to be in a park or a punk who decides to be a "big man" by burning down a children's playground, stealing the xylophone, or sprinkling broken beer bottles around the slides under cover of darkness. That could be your kid or someone in your family who doesn't get to make use of a park or common area because of people who think they're "awesome", and it's our taxes that pay to put the park back together.

If you feel like you want to put up real art and not some lazy tag, then go to your next community or neighborhood council meeting and bring up the idea. Pitch a few themes, suggestions and locations to the rest of the public before you slap down your next manifesto. Bring in your ideas for something that would look really good, provoke a positive spirit, and discourage others from tagging on top of it. Oh, wait - that would involve really thinking outside the box and challenging the status quo of doing nothing or being mindlessly destructive, something a self-described "iconoclast" should know all about.