Offroad-Express

Fcuking little pricks had a tagging spree in Rolleston last night.

Started in town by countdown and the kiddies playcentre. then made its way through the streets and finished up in Beaumont drive.

Houses ,fences and cars tagged with pink builders markout paint (dazzle paint). Nice new brick houses tagged (only the light coloured ones though), The wooden fences sporadically along the roads (seems they were picky about which ones as not every one got an 'artistic rendition of their ideas' and likewise with the parked cars, only some got redecorated.

The usual comments about F' the police and then a pile of car comments about toyotas, datsuns and a few name tags.

The wife and I spent about an hour trying to scrub the carp off in the rain, but I'll have to use a waterblaster when its not too wet (scared of getting an electric tickle). Got some of it off but might have to paint the fence to seal it up as it was just natural wood slowly going grey.

If I catch up with "Badboy", RAT$ and their mates it might not be pretty.

Little ##### messing with my hard earned property. Taken a long time to get to where we are, a lot of hard work and going without to be able to live here. If I wanted crappy fences and tagging I'd have stayed in Auckland.

Oh yeah and the cops didnt seem to give a shite.

thats rat shit,not so much you can do to prevent it either.
hopefully some one catches them in the act

Heath wrote: If I wanted crappy fences and tagging I'd have stayed in Auckland.

It doesn't seem as big a problem as it used to be Heath, ever since that guy got caught in the act and stabbed to death by the home owner it's died of a bit. Got a couple of mates in Manurewa and there's hardly a tag to be seen there these days (on private property anyway)

Anyone know what will take dazzle paint off? water blaster wont touch it.

Neighbour suggested a citrus based cleaner as it worked on his place but he couldnt remember the name (old container filled from somewhere).

Heath

Don't know if it'll help ya but we use meths or turps to take off paint pen on car parts from scrappies.

Unpainted wooden pine fence. So I'm picking any thinners will make it wick into the wood and it will be permanent.

once its nice and dry give it a good sand with an orbital sander or the likes, like you said thinners may stain it, it does wear off eventually, if its the same marker paint we use on logs in the bush it eventually fades off, but sanding is your best bet

does your council offer a graffiti removal service? usually they just spray some stuff on

if its acrylic look for a product called simple green, its what i use to strip paint off models, may work may not.

Or contact Mainland Paints on Selwyn street, they know their stuff and can recommend stuff to deal with the tagging AND products that will seal against further tagging - that will make it easier to remove if it happens again.

Heath wrote:Oh yeah and the cops didnt seem to give a shite.

heath thats because they cant make any monies from it,and they mite have to get out and do some work.

Go out and spray something like the home phone numbers of the local constabulary all over the top of it. problem solved

couple of years ago i remember reading about how a guy wired up a portable electric fence(which runs of a car battery) to his seat, he stitched up wire through the seat cover. that could be an interesting idea...although there is a risk of fire

ive heard of alarms that when you drive away or come to a stop you have to press a hidden button, otherwise the car cuts out in a minute, this is good for those times when you get carjacked, let the guys have the car, then walk 1km down the road and pick it up again after it stops.

if you find the criminals, buy them a one way ticket to Papua new guinea, lets see how tough they are there walking down a road at night....you wont last long

anyone got recommendations for car alarms in chch?> think i might get my truck down, last time i used pauls car audio, they were pretty good i thought.