Those graffiti areas visible from the public streets get reported to the city and it gets cleaned up within two business days. However, the areas along the walk ways that can't be seen from the street gets very bad - and the city won't clean it up.
This particular vast amount of graffiti was full of anatomical pictures (I am sure you can guess which body parts it consisted of) and offensive language and could be seen from a neighboring community. That community is gated and therefore the streets are not considered public and the city won't touch it. We, as a community, still had to be responsible to clean it up. The graffiti covered the back walls of eight homes and down the cement walls of the wash.
We discussed the issue at an HOA Board meeting. We decided we needed to put out a call to the community to assist in cleaning it. It was just word of mouth, but only the organizer, my husband and one other guy showed up to help to clean it up. I asked Josh if we could make it a family affair - I would love my kids to be involved in helping keep their community clean. Josh quickly reminded me what the graffiti consisted of and we decided it would be best if Josh was the only person that went.
Here are a few pictures of the three guys cleaning up the mess.
My stud man in his "painting clothes."
He wears these with every painting project he is involved with.
I just LOVE this man!!!
He wears these with every painting project he is involved with.
I just LOVE this man!!!
Ted (doesn't actually live in our community any more, but rents out his house to his daughter and her family. He did not want his grandchildren to see the offensive stuff and offered to come help - How cool is that???)
Ted with my hunk of a husband in the background.
Ted with Bob - the organizer of the clean up.
Great job gentlemen. We appreciate you assisting with keeping our community clean and beautiful. Now if we could just do something about the homeowners with weeds. *SIGH* That is another post by itself...
3 comments:
GOOD JOB! IT'S TOO BAD PEOPLE CANT PITCH IN TOGETHER AND MAKE IT A QUICK AND EASY FIX....THE MORE THAT HELP, THE FASTER IT IS AND EASIER TO GET PEOPLE TO BE WILLING TO HELP AGAIN. BUT IT IS STILL A TEACHING MOMENT.
that is awesome. and so sad that kids are that lame. what a good example to your kids to have both parents so involved in the community!
I understand completely about the graffiti. There has been more than one occasion where Matthew was the only one covering up the tags our neighborhood was/is getting. Now, the walls around our neighborhood are been destroyed, too. Big gaping holes in the walls, and one whole side was completely destoyed. It is visible to the public, and no one in our HOA has done anything about it for months. I wonder if the city would do something? Who do you contact?
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