Graffiti

I am so tired of seeing graffiti all over Hollywood, and the culture of it amazes me. My interpretation is that it is used as a status symbol, and various sub-cultures are constantly trying to one-up each other with creative and brazen displays of superiority. One of the most recent examples is the abandoned Shell station at the corner of Cahuenga and Franklin. A fence with a green tarp was errected around the property, and the windows were carefully boarded up. Overnight, the entire building had literally been spray painted from top to bottom with gang symbols and the tarp was cut down to reveal their accomplishment. Now everyone has to stare at it everytime they are at the stop light. Very clever. I have also seen gang symbols spray pained on roof tops all over Hollywood, most noteably the huge defacing of the Bally's dome roof, and all along sidewalks, murals, anything you can think of. On one occasion I even saw a fat, ugly latino girl stop on the Walk of Fame and write her name on one of the stars with a paint marker, as everyone kept walking by. Now I am seeing graffiti carved into the leaves of plants even. Don't these people have anything better to do than to deface everything in sight? The city has tried to crack down on it. Spray paint is required to be kept behind a caged fence and an IDis required to purchase it. But that does no good. There's nothing I can do about it either. Hopefully after all the high income housing and hotels are built over the next 5 years those kinds of people won't be able to afford to live in Hollywood. It should be interesting to see how and if Hollywood can get rid of the people who have no respect for public and private property.