19 year old gets 8 year sentence for graffiti

How many chances do you give a guy to get straight???Do you know what kind of trouble this guy has been in?? The guy was on probaion already

i agree with you maby if this kid had a place to express him self you konw, well they say there's no justice in courts olny the law

you must not own a home that has been tagged.

You sentence him to buy the paint and repaint your house, then give him 6 months in jail and 900 hours community service, simple as that.

There are literally murders that don't spend 8 years in prison nowadays! Literally. This punishment doesn't fit the crime.

If his tagging led the murder or rape of someone then 8 years might be alright, but yeah, no. You're wrong.

Why don't you let them paint on your house or your car if you have one or the other??

@bailey78 You have completely missed the point of what lifestudentno83 is trying to say ... And @lifestudentno83 I totally agree.

Im sorry, but i dont really agree there. I mean, i dont know what kind of graffiti he did, but graffiti is an art, and this is bull.

So I can't use spray paint around the house anymore..?

At the same time you could argue that we should stop selling wall paint, sharpies, pens, stickers, or anything else that's already used as vandalism.

If your method of solving vandalism is to cut access to the products. Than to stop arson we should also stop selling lighters, matches, gas, hair products, or anything that can start a fire.

Exactly my point! Not everyone who uses spray paint goes around committing repeated offenses & felonies. What's ridiculous is that there are plenty of legalized graffiti places where graffers can go now to practice their craft if tagging a wall is a must! But if it isn't, then doing it in the privacy of a studio or in your home, on your own property should not warrant the extremist stance of "ban all spray paint".

you must not own a home. Or you would not Think disrespecting someone else's Property was no big deal. When you own something that gets vandelized then let me know how you feel

I don't see how having taxpayers pay to cloth, feed, and house the kid is justice. It would have been much better to make the kid pay those whose property he vandalized back. Maybe even have him repaint their property.

Again, victims, and the taxpayers get the shaft!

I hear you but 8yrs is way too much! Wasn't like he killed anybody

vandalism is destroying something for no reason.
this isn't vandalism.

city governments should stop charging businesses to have murals on their buildings. then this "vandalsim" would be a job market.

A good start? This kid is getting locked for 8 years for graffiti. Maybe a few months or a nice fine, but not 8 years in jail. You may not like graffiti, but it's not worth the harsh punishment for such a minor crime. Make him go and paint over all his shit (and others). Not only will it be punishment, but he will be pissed he's erasing his name.

Sorry, I thought you were saying 8 years was a good start.

Kiss off slappy, aint no such thing as 'private property' or property at all for that matter. Just piss off. If I somehow knew you and where you lived I'd tag your entire house and anything else you deemed yours.

Yeah, it was purposely hypothetical ape brain. Art and mere tagging of a name should not, in a reasonable and evolved society, be a crime. Who the fuck in their right minds would think 8 years in a self-destructive system such as the prison system can ever be an effective treatment for the overt behavior of the "criminal" in question? You can't be polarized so completely that your dislike of street punks can overcome your rationalization of irrationality. Think about it. As for believing you own what you possess, wait till you die.

Thargor19, I agree that 8 years sounds over the top but neither you or I area aware of all the facts. Maybe 3 years would have been more appropriate if he has a long history of VANDALIZING PRIVET PROPERTY.

Yes I said VANDALIZING PRIVET PROPERTY. Can you expand on your theory claiming there is no such thing as privet property?

Are you an anarchist?

Oh ya, almost forgot. A prison sentence is not "treatment" is punishment.

btw one male, my original comment was directed at bailey. but since you seem to have either been too drunk or coked out to have not flipped out i guess your point is made. and to hawk, im not defined by any one philosophy or policy rather an aggregate of many different ideas.

Thargor19, whether you feel there should be "privet property" in this world or not means nothing.

The idea that this self entitled d-bag did not do anything wrong is a joke. You and him are part of our society. People can try and live outside society or be a part of it. If you choose to try and live outside it you are still bound by societies laws.

So all the big talk about "there is no such thing as privet property" is exactly that.

Privet: a Eurasian deciduous shrub (Ligustrum vulgare) of the olive family with semievergreen leaves and small white flowers that is widely used for hedges; broadly : any of various shrubs of the same genus

yeah there's "privet" property, but this guy didn't tag any.

haha dumbfuck