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Lock up the ID students

By Glen Taylor - March 2, 2008

in Object Culture

The city of Santa Ana recently dropped this diagram as part of a campaign to educate folks on how to spot if their child could be a 'tagger'. What happens when you swap Your child with ID student:

* ~~Your child~~ The ID student frequently wears baggy pants or carries a large backpack. These are used to carry cans of spray-paint, various colors and types of magic markers, etching tools, slap tags and cameras to take photos of their taggings. The clothes and backpack may be paint stained.

* ~~Your child~~ The ID student has large quantities of magic markers in various colors, types and sizes, spray-paint cans, shoe polish containers, or dot markers used to mark bingo cards.

* ~~Your child~~ The ID student has or carries tools used for etching glass or mirror surfaces such as spark plug porcelain, drill bits, screwdrivers with a sharpened tip, small rocks, or any other type of sharp instrument.

*~~Your child~~ The ID student stays out late at night or has taken to sneaking out of the house.

* ~~Your child~~ The ID student frequently has paint or marker residue on their fingertips.

* ~~Your child~~ The ID student has or carries a black artist notebook that contains tagging or drawings. These books are called "bibles" or "piece books."

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Albert

16 years ago

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Teen artists look like this, too.
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phil

16 years ago

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As much as I admire street art my home has also been the site of rather unfortunate gang tagging. Our garage door faces the front of an urban high school and it presents an irresistible canvas for gang tags. And, of course, I'm required to cover (or remove) the tags within 7 days or face a fine. I don't think the average urbanite can discern between street art and thoughtless graffiti. And all I have is MY opinion.

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Dude

16 years ago

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Hah. But try to get either your ID student or young tagger to do something productive and paint his/her parents' house? Fuhgetabout it.

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alexander Miranda

16 years ago

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I guess the city of santa ana does not want to encourage art in a positive way.......just lock em up!!!
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