From 1010WINS:A 27-year-old woman accused of tagging her way through Europe with her boyfriend has been charged with writing graffiti on subway cars in New York.
Danielle Bremner has been charged with second- and third-degree criminal mischief. If convicted, she faces up to seven years in prison.
Queens prosecutors say she spray-painted her tags "Erin" or "Dani" on at least six subway cars, causing more than $6,000 in damage. Authorities say a search of her home turned up more than 450 spray cans as well as other materials used to tag. Her attorney had no comment.
Authorities say Bremner and her boyfriend wrote graffiti on train cars across Europe last summer, including in London, Paris and Madrid.
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Europe has long had a serious graffiti problem. It's kind of disorienting to see a clean orderly subway station in Germany and a spattered train arrive.
The Thais have no such problems on the trains as they are already covered with advertising.
My snooty French relatives used to be critical of Americans for not "taking care of the street art" they felt is was wrong to allow the plastered subways to get dirty and obscure the "people's art'.
I am not kidding, this was a common opinion over there. I heard it several times myself.
So much for European aesthetic sense.
They were not so anxious to welcome some of the ghetto snipes...I mean artists from here.
The most horrifying sight I ever saw was English-language graffiti on a wall in Prague.
I was being taken on a tour by a local guide and I was so embarrassed that I said, "I hope Americans were not responsible for this."
It is not okay to be "an Ugly American" and destroy other people's art and culture. If some idiot from another country does this to us, they need to go to jail too.
It's not just the graffiti, but the utter contempt show to others.
She is almost 28 yrs old,get a life. mommy & daddy have money...make them pay for the damage and throw her in jail.And let's find out where she lives so i can paint my "art" on her home and car(s)!
My snooty French relatives used to be critical of Americans for not "taking care of the street art" they felt is was wrong to allow the plastered subways to get dirty and obscure the "people's art'.I am not kidding, this was a common opinion over there.
?? Not sure part of society your French relatives are from, my own hate this crap and certainly want no part of it. Don't lump your S*** head relatives with the general population of France - which is far from admiriring anything that destroys property etc.
Deliberate, destruction of private property deserves a response of deliberate prosecution till sentenced to long jail time served, monetary retitution and personally scrubbing/removing/cleaning one's own paint.
A lot of young kids these days think the world revolves around them, and everything in it is for their amusement.
Lock 'em up!
Welcome to Riker's, white people!
Now we'll see just how much you folks appreciate "street" culture!
You mean "shtreet kultcha".
"Don't lump your S*** head relatives with the general population of France"
Well, "Anonymous" is probably not worth responding to..but if you were just a little more well-read and worldly you might have remembered that this attitude was shared amongst the social-artistic "elite" in most of Europe during graffiti's heyday in the 70s-80s.
Even today, graffiti, rap and rap's ugly clothing styles are seen as a voice of the "oppressed" -often mean as a swipe against capitalism and the West.
Sorry, all of this seems to have eluded you.
Graffiti vandalism is not limited to thug teens.
The story is that the cops arrested a well dressed bank executive vandalizing building walls with graffiti.
They let him keep the fat magic marker in his pocket while in his jail cell.
Several hours later, the cops found that this executive had vandalized the entire cell.
Just goes to show that bank executives have been vandalizing property for quite a few years now.
In any event, this woman and her lover need to be locked up for a very long time. But, this is Queens, and DA Brown couldn't care less. He let the accused rapist off with a sissy, mumbled apology. Throwing cases is Brown's specialty.
Taxpayer said... "The story is that the cops arrested a well dressed bank executive vandalizing building walls with graffiti"
"In any event, this woman and her lover need to be locked up for a very long time."
- Iam unaware of the details here but, it costs upwards of $50.000/yr to imprison someone here in NYS.. What you suggest is neither cost effective nor fiscally responsible.
Why should we as taxpayers pay for this.
The proper penalty here would be to hire a professional maintenance company to clean the affected area and require the guilty ones to pay, or face lien on their salary.
Don't worry about them getting off easily, these union maint cos will make it plenty expensive.
One of my neighbors knew a man who was victimized by vandals every night. One day he waited until 2:00 am, caught the punk involved and spray-painted his face.
The punk's father had the nerve to confront the homeowner about spray painting his kid's face. The homeowner threatened to kill Dad and *Beep* Mom. That was the end of it.
but if you were just a little more well-read and worldly you might have remembered that this attitude was shared amongst the social-artistic "elite" in most of Europe during graffiti's heyday in the 70s-80s.
Social-artistic elite - sound like your a baiting worse than liberal socialist, probably more communist and make statements such as offering your wife to homeless men so that you are so impressive to your small circle of rich misfits. - F**K Y** ASS-H***
"Social-artistic elite - sound like your a baiting worse than liberal socialist"
I am being -sarcastic-. You don't even get that?
My point then, and now, is the these individuals and their social circle were unaware of the problems that graffiti represented. Later-on as immigration and pop culture has brought this phenomenon to their societies, they are less critical of us, at least they seem to be.
Archie wasn't much for reading comprehension either.
Ha, ha, ha...
maybe that's really Don Pete "junior" Vallone's tag!
Lino, I like your suggestion for a start. Unfortunately destroyed property isn't all we face from these little hoodlums.
The infamous Father's Day fire in Astoria was started when a graffiti vandal used gas to make his "art" more difficult to remove. This ignited a pilot light in a flammables-laden hardware store.
Result? Three deaths, 60 injuries, two firemen successfully treated in intensive care (probably permanently disabled.) The little punk's family later tried to sue because he was injured by his own gasoline.
Having witnessed that and having been permanently damaged by the poisonous smoke (I live around the corner) I will never see graffiti as a minor thing. Vallone may be grandstanding on this issue, but he is absolutely right to take it on.
What you read in the paper is a point of view slanted by the cops...how else do you think the press gets this info? They say things they have not proven and you all rush to a lynching. She is an adult and will suffer the punishment A COURT - not you - decides. Leave her parents alone...who says they have money? the cops? even so, why are they responsible...because you want retribution? I wish you had some real problems so you would see that this, while illegal, is certainly not worth the anger some of you display
You are right everyone is entitled to their day in court, however; not every angry homeowner waits for the court to settle the case.
I know of at least one 18-year old boy now in his grave because he insisted on his "constitutional right" to egg a neighbor's house.
The neighbor disagreed and shot him dead. Then there is the case of the prolific grafitti vandal "Sane Smith" who fell to his death while spray painting a bridge.
Lastly, the young culprit in the Astoria Father's day fire who burned himself while instigating the greatest 1-day toll of injury and death by fire in New York history pre-911.
If parents won't teach their children to avoid vandalism because of financial consequences, then they should inform their children of these cautionary tales and ask them how much they would like to be crippled, dead, or burned.
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