"Unknown Guy"- You're being "Kudoed!"

VANDALS STRIKE THE HISTORIC GARFIELD STREET COURTS!!
 

Here's the story, in case you've not been to the Historic Courts this first week of 2006: Just recently- Late Monday, January 1st, in fact, miscreants with no respect and nothing better to do "tagged" the walls of the Historic Courts with graffiti. Just that evening, on the way to the Courts from Hollywood Boulevard, I noticed someone had tagged the Jersey barriers on the ramp to A1A- and I wondered aloud why was it our Courts hadn't been tagged yet. I guess it's just one of those things one doesn't speak aloud because Tuesday daylight found ugly scrawls and spray-bombings all over our walls. Tuesday evening, when I showed up, most of it was still there- but to some unknown (to me) guys' credit, he'd  already started laying the first coat on the graffiti. I commented in the Guest Book about it (thinking that it was the City) and even added a comment in another Email to the them regarding the lights- and promised to post yet another group of pics of our courts in their newly defaced state. 

So Wednesday, when I showed up with my trusty digital cam and tripod to take the pics- what greeted me was a FRESHLY PAINTED C Court wall and paint covering up all the graffiti on the walls and other surfaces. Ok, so the wall of the garage needs one more coat to fully cover the tags- but, C'mon, people... He'd done a GREAT JOB and QUICKLY!!   My hat's off to ya, man- watch out for the glare off my head!

Thank You, unknown guy. You deserve all the credit we can all give you- and a beer or two, even!  Below are thumbnails of pics that were going to be of graffiti-covered walls... Instead, at least one sports a fresh new coat of paint! Way to go, DPW & Parks & Rec- you got upstaged! Would you have reacted so quickly? Click on a thumbnail to view the full-size pic, hit your back button or backspace key to return to this page.

As an afterthought.... by posting pic of their "tags," I'd have given those graffiti-spraying vandals' more exposure. They'd just have loved that! Hey, losers.... why not just put up a web page??

"A" Court graffiti- GONE! Thanks, Unknown Guy! You're a hero, in MY book!  "C" Court. You gotta like that fresh coat of paint on that wall!!  It was IN da CAN! NICE JOB, UNKNOWN GUY! I APPLAUD YOU!!  

I guess it's too hard to write a blog- so they "tagged" our garage wall, the losers!  What's left on the garage wall... Just let me catch the *#&*... I'll drop a dime on them SO fast!  This is a Historic Place: respect it, preserve it, protect it! Nuff Said!