Hello,
I am looking for some ideas here for graffiti to put on the back fence of my property. Mostly interested in quotes, and I will probably put the first amendment up there. Here is my situation:
August 17 - I buy a house that has some graffiti on the back fence. There is a picture of a firecracker, and two instances of "425", which is the area code here. I don't care about the graffiti and don't plan on removing it.
November 2 - I receive a letter from the city of Renton requesting that I remove the graffiti by November 17, saying that the quick removal of graffiti deters further graffiti. I do not mind future graffiti, and if it is anything of substance I would actually welcome it. I decide to take no action.
November 28 - I receive a letter from the City of Renton saying that they will "allow [me] 10 days from the date of this letter to remove all graffiti from [my] property. After December 8, 2007, an on site inspection will be conducted. If the property is not in compliance at this time you will be issued a criminal citation without further contact from this department." This letter kind of ticks me off. I absolutely think that tagging someone's property without their permission is a bad thing, but I do not understand why a property owner would get in trouble for allowing graffiti on their own property. This is not cool by me. So I have decided that rather than remove the graffiti, I would like to put some more up. I would probably like substantial quotes by respectable people, but I was also considering "F*** censorship" (without the asterisks). So I ask you what quotes you would consider appropriate to the situation. By the way, the graffiti is in a very low visibility place. It's a dirt road that only has access to the rears of a few houses, and is closed off on one end. The only people who would ever use it would be the few residents who live along it, and I doubt very many of them would use it because it is full of pot holes and doesn't provide any sort of convenience.