Nice Yoda!

Also liking AHC’s.
I think you might just have inspired me to give one a go. :weee:

according to BTP 90% of graffiti artists get busted because they put the same tags/pieces they done on trains on their own bedroom walls :you_crazy

a mate of mine who had a bit more brain (hadn’t been killed off by xylene fumes) would use a quickly disposable piece of wood for this purpose.

I really like it 🙂

a mates wall, i tend not to do them in public. i live in a village, so graff kinda doesnt work. and can come back to bite you in the ass as everyone knows everyone

90% graffitti artists i know get busted because they dont run fast enough iv never know anyone to get caught by having the peice son there walls and iv known alot of graffiti artists who have got arrested

This was a couple of years ago and outside the capital (in fact its only recently they bothered busting graffiti artists in London, BTP also work more closely with councils and Defra and did first start with a clampdown on the London boroughs so clearly any writers left have to be a bit more clued up

Also as Tek Offensive pointed out in less populated areas (or even suburbs just outside London) graf can stick out like a sore thumb… and middle england types are quick to call the feds (and olds have cameraphones as well these days..)

in some boroughs there is a anonymous text thing where any pics of graf can be sent to the councils.

I think the writers are gonna have to run even faster these days – some of the train companies just spent loads on new branding (and TBH that silver colour on national express does looks like a nice background for a piece)

there is a big clampdown though round here as I’m always seeing BTP around my estate and its a fair distance away from trackside, what they are doing is photographing any pieces they see and matching the styles up with stuff on trains.

Incidentally I worked at Defra a few years ago (in a different department) read the clampdown in one of our staff magazines and there was definitely at least one former writer who was advising the feds and councils on what to look out for and how to match up techniques/styles etc..

there has definatly been a big clampdown round here i keep bumping into people who are actually facin court from it, 2 good friends of mine have to keep there hands well and truly clean for the next 20 months after they didnt run fast enough, and all b ecause tey like to make things look pretty

or they run too fast in the wrong direction, hit the 630 volt lines and end up like Dave from the EDF sign – but dave is a stick man and is indestructible, they aren’t.. :hopeless:

i don’t mean to be smug .. but i am constantly telling people this .. so i have to say it .. it’s the ampage that kills you ..not the voltage …:love:

true, but 400-800 volts is a particularly nasty voltage as there are just enough volts to drive a fatal current through the body due to its resistance..

most people who slip on something like a railway track are going to reach out with their hands to try and rebalance themselves – there is a very good chance they may touch the live rail with one hand and one of the earthed rails with the other, plus DC causes muscle contractions which can make the victim lock on to the live conductor (also causing secondary injury via burns)

I think one of the writers in Barking was killed this way a few years back..

yeah with certain voltages ..for them to be used … the ampage will be leathel/v dangerose due to the resistance needed for them to be used in the way needed …. and yeah dc if nasty stuff if you touch it … there was some dude who jumped over the fence of a rail way line some where within news paper coverage distance from me …. i think he was running from the police for some reason .. graf is a posibility … he landed on the over head wires tho .. they are in the 100’s of thou volts (i should know it exactly as i used to work on the railways .. but have forgoten it as i was only in my training when i left) but they are AC … he got projected off of them on contact … and survived .. :weee: