Banksy art streetsign stolen.

[mackem 26,258]

Valued at £250,000 apparently,Banksy himself had only authenticated it as his an hour previously.

 

[DIDO.1 22,628]

Modern Britain....a shite piece of tat street art with a massive price tag.....a pavement ape has it away in minutes.....no use putting it on crime watch cos they all look alike . 

What the fck is happening in this country

Edited December 22, 2023 by DIDO.1

[mackem 26,258]

12 minutes ago, DIDO.1 said:

Modern Britain....a shite piece of tat street art with a massive price tag.....a pavement ape has it away in minutes.....no use putting it on crime watch cos they all look alike . 

What the fck is happening in this country

Wondering if it was a genuine theft or a stunt like his Shredder.

[Bakerboy 4,670]

Publicity stunt I reckon

[kanny 20,456]

London onlookers watched as man removed Banksy art

WWW.BBC.COM

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Banksy, believed to have been born in Yate, included three drones on a stop sign in his...

 

[kanny 20,456]

Is there crime any worse than the defacing and vandalism of the stop sign by Banksy  

[mackem 26,258]

3 minutes ago, Bakerboy said:

Publicity stunt I reckon

Could be,remember his piece at auction that destroyed itself?

the guy who held the bike while the other bloke nicked the sign said the theft had zilch to do with him,he was just there as a bystander.

[mackem 26,258]

1 minute ago, kanny said:

Is there crime any worse than the defacing and vandalism of the stop sign by Banksy  

Street art if your famous vandalism if your not.

[tatsblisters 9,478]

On 22/12/2023 at 21:50, mackem said:

Street art if your famous vandalism if your not.

Can never get my head around why youths do that tagging just pure vandalism imo usually on shop shutters and such like that just make rundown area's look bigger shit hole's than they already are.

[mackem 26,258]

24 minutes ago, tatsblisters said:

Can never get my head around why youths do that tagging just pure vandalism imo usually on shop shutters and such like that just make rundown area's look bigger shit hole's than they already are.

It’s not always youths Tats,I have a friend who has a paint shop,sells sprays,I sit in there sometimes having a cup of tea and the customers coming in can be anyone from a 12 year old kid with his mum in tow to pay for his paint to a 50+ year old professional,a lot of the customers are in their 30’s and 40’s it’s a strange culture,I never understood it till I mixed with those involved.I know a graffer who specialises in trains who bought a thermal for nocturnal track missions,he has access keys and tracky uniform,there’s always people who take it to the next level.I was in an LA train station earlier this year,a few lads came in mingling with passengers and started tagging everything from one end of the platform to the other no one bothered them.

[DIDO.1 22,628]

41 minutes ago, tatsblisters said:

Can never get my head around why youths do that tagging just pure vandalism imo usually on shop shutters and such like that just make rundown area's look bigger shit hole's than they already are.

Pavement apes and young white kids trying to act like pavement apes cos society says it's cool. 

[tatsblisters 9,478]

1 minute ago, mackem said:

It’s not always youths Tats,I have a friend who has a paint shop,sells sprays,I sit in there sometimes having a cup of tea and the customers coming in can be anyone from a 12 year old kid with his mum in tow to pay for his paint to a 50+ year old professional,a lot of the customers are in their 30’s and 40’s it’s a strange culture,I never understood it till I mixed with those involved.I know a graffer who specialises in trains who bought a thermal for nocturnal track missions,he has access keys and tracky uniform,there’s always people who take it to the next level.I was in an LA train station earlier this year,a few lads came in mingling with passengers and started tagging everything from one end of the platform to the other no one bothered them.

Dont get me wrong mate proper street art looks great its the numptys who seem to spray a couple of letters on any standing object they come across.

[mackem 26,258]

1 minute ago, tatsblisters said:

Dont get me wrong mate proper street art looks great its the numptys who seem to spray a couple of letters on any standing object they come across.

Some of the graffers I have met get commissions to do street art on hoardings etc,one even went to the Middle East on a paid paint job.

[chartpolski 23,215]

I wouldn’t mind a copy of that or his other drone painting for my man cave; 

Doubtless some entrepreneur will start producing them !

Cheers.

[waltjnr 6,627]

2 hours ago, mackem said:

Some of the graffers I have met get commissions to do street art on hoardings etc,one even went to the Middle East on a paid paint job.

Mack ,I'm guessing you'll know what I'm on about ,some abandoned town/village in Belgium? Heavily graffed, but not silly tags ,some good art !?