How many of these clowns are there out there?
John Burman
The Hamilton Spectator
(Oct 9, 2008)
Hamilton police have scored another daylight graffiti arrest, bagging a 14-year-old in the act after a city employee spotted him tagging equipment in a park.
But, while police were explaining details of the Tuesday afternoon Waterdown arrest, John Dalziel was on the phone yesterday morning telling them taggers were targeting cops downtown.
Dalziel walked out of his home at Victoria Avenue North at King William Street yesterday and found a graffiti sign about one metre high by six metres long on his wall telling police in no uncertain terms what the "artist" thinks of them.
The sign, it seems, was painted on Dalziel's basement wall and faces King William Street, which police use a lot while coming and going from the central police station.
"It's beyond me why people (paint things) like this," Dalziel said, adding he's seen nothing like it in his 10 years in the house.
"We'll just have to get it painted or something."
The arrest in Waterdown is the latest in a series of graffiti busts where paint or markers have been seized.
Police spokesperson Sergeant Marty Schulenberg said a city employee was driving by Memorial Park in Waterdown about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday and saw a youth spray painting park equipment with the tags Train and Jesc.
He called police. Arriving officers caught the youth in the act. The youth was charged with mischief under $5,000 and released to his parents on a promise to appear in court.
This was the fifth graffiti arrest for mischief in the Hamilton area in the past four weeks.
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