MORE GANG GRAFFITI IN MESA DEL MAR AND MESA NORTH THIS MORNING
There was more large gang graffiti in Mesa del Mar near where Katrina Foley and her pals had a group hug and a flower planting kumbaya meeting last month.
Apparently, it was a hugadelicious event and everyone smiled a lot and felt really, really swell about how they had made such a big difference. Then, they jumped back in their Yugos--before it got dark in the slum--and headed back to their homes to eat tofu cooked by their domestic partners.
But darn golly, it appears the gangs apparently weren't dissuaded from putting their markers all over the place by the flowers. In fact, it appears to us that there may be even more gang members in that neighborhood than before. Of course, they may not be gang members. They may just be fashion models wearing the latest street fashions.
The CM PRESS wouldn't be surprised to see some gang (or fashion model) violence--maybe some more drive by shootings--either in Mesa del Mar or Mesa North within the next week or so.
There was also large gang graffiti on a fence in the Fillmore slum directly across the street from Paularino School this morning.
If you saw anyone putting up the graffiti in these locations and want a reward for going to the trouble of reporting them, you might want to give it a second thought.
As reported in # 215, the City seems to want to stiff a citizen who reported graffiti in progress even though the cops were able to make an arrest.
Why is the City balking at paying a reward? Something about the tipster not meeting some sort of criteria that no one seems to be able to articulate and which no one seems to want to put in writing.
Since no one in City government has said what this "criteria" actually is, we're left to speculate.
So, if you want to report graffiti in progress, try this:
Stand on your left leg (if it's Monday, Wednesday and Friday, but on your right leg if it's Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and on both legs if it's Sunday) touch your left ear with your right hand and whistle the Star Spangled Banner while dialing the police on your cell phone.
Then, go over and tackle the graffiti criminals, hog tie them with some handy rope that you should be carrying, throw the graffiti criminals in the trunk of your car and drive them to the police station.
Then, you might get the reward.
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