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Given ready access to fresh cement…
05/06/2009 4:15 PM by John M
When I was a semi-wayward youth, we would have written a capital A and then drawn a circle around it. Is this the ghetto version of that, or does it really mean something?
fricken devil huggers
Possibly it’s a gang sign…? I don’t know who or what’s active in Fairmount.
It’s a Masonic conspiracy! AAAAH!!!!!
It’s the five pointed star symbol of the Bloods. Note B-L-O-O-D written clockwise around the points.
The photo below was taken last spring from the back of a vacant house across the street from the graffiti above. The question stands – is this real gang shit, or the teen on the corner playing a being bad?
Pretty sure that is referencing an alliance between the Bloods and “OBZ” or Oriental Boyz (an all Asian Blood affiliated gang out of L.A.) The third line with the arrow indicates B’s Up (or Bloods Up) for life. This is definitely strange for our area. Not that I’m trying to profile or anything, but have you ever noticed any youths of Asian decent around Fairmount?
Only the Wan Jin Lou delivery guy on the scooter.
This is why we get overlooked for new neighborhood upgrades because it gets defaced and destroyed before anyone can enjoy it. Thanks “homies”!
Do tough gang guys really write “4 life” on things? I thought that was 13-year-old girlspeak. I’m on Team Teen-on-the-Corner-Playing-a-Bad.
Bloods? Oriental Boyz? Aw, man, you guys are weak. Southside’s graffiti is so much more badass than Church Hill’s….
Aw, my picture didn’t show up.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3614/3508991994_84b6d00558.jpg?v=0
That’s niiiiiice… I was expecting some Blackwell shit.
I got this in Carver over the summer:
When I was about 8 years old (yes, I am using my relative youth as an excuse) the sidewalk in front of my house was replaced. I immediately went outside and wrote my name about twenty times in the drying concrete. Later that day I felt bad because I did not leave a lot of room for other kids to write their names. A few years later when I was a teenager I was even more embarrassed when my dates saw the sidewalk. I think the sidewalk has been replaced by now- I hope.
Today, I think anyone in college or university who blatantly puts up graffiti in the community should be kicked out of school. I do believe there is an age when you should be held accountable for your actions and I do believe that higher education demands higher standards. Evidently, jail time is not enough of a deterrent.
Anyway, more takes on graffiti:
http://www.oregonhill.net/2009/05/02/small-business-vandalized/
http://www.oregonhill.net/2009/05/03/graffiti-on-everyones-property/
Regardless of your stance on graffiti-urban art form v. tacky vandalism, truth is truth…and MC Hammer is No. 1
I disagree Guilty Mom…Elvis is No. 1.
Oh Zeb…Has anyone ever called Elvis 2 legit 2 quit?
Our son works in local law enforcement and has explained to us that there actually IS a rising issue with gangs in VA. Currently Hells Angels are setting up shop in Hopewell and Bloods are moving out to Midlothian trying to get in with the young rich “wannabes” to take advantage of mommy and daddies money.
As I understand it, VA “could” have received SUBSTANTIAL funding for gang related activity had the previous Chief simply mentioned the word gang in one of his presentations but he refused to so we didn’t get the aid.
Ah well….but, really gang activity in VA is on the rise.
Actually it should go 2 inDebt 2 Quit but everyone likes McHammer
YEA U FUCKING CRACKA WE ACTIVE IN CHURCH HILL BLOOD GANG B’S UP ALL FUCKING DAY YALL WHITE PEOPLE NEED TO STAY DA FUCK OUT OF CHURCH HILL SNITCHIN ON MOTHERFUCKER SHIT
lame attempt at satire.
and racist!
More importantly, did they use historically accurate materials in creating the graffiti? Was the paint color approved by CAR?