I hate graffiti. 

 

I can can remember not so long ago when there was virtually none of it in Bangkok except for a few political slogans and some rather cool cartoon-like pieces. Now it's all over the place. Our area of Lad Phrao seems to be particularly bad, with the ugly "tags" on pretty much every surface now, all appeared in a matter of months.

 

Authorities in the West recognise that the low-level crime of graffiti tagging signals a breakdown of law and order and leads to increased crime in general. In my home city of London they have had great success with council "hit squads" to get rid of it immediately.

 

Here in Thailand as there was never much law and order in the first place it signals the end of the traditional respect of younger people for elders and their property.

 

The government need to do something about this if they are serious about their public order policy rather than trying to get rid of street traders. What happened to the anti-litter campaign which used to be run in schools? Surely this type of vandalism is far worse than litter.

Graffity tells a lot about who lives in the neighbourhood and who controls it. I don't think the police has time to chase them, you know they are always vely vely busy.

 

Maybe one day the owner of the building sees them making a graffity on it, hopefully he will try to stop them and he might even have the law on his side. After all this is Thailand, if you see a thieve stealing your property you are even allowed to kick his butt.

 

But as a farang you better not get involved. Lad Phrao seems to become a bad neighbourhood following the news last months. 

If you really can't stand it you can always move to a moobaan, i've never seen them there.

What happened in  Lad Phrao last month?

17 hours ago, doremifasol said:

What happened in  Lad Phrao last month?

 

I was also wondering...

Switzerland. One of the cleanest countries in the world also has some very tasteful street art, or as others might call it graffiti.