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Wednesday, August 3, 2011 www.metronews.ca News worth sharing.
Graffiti vandals strike Police were not dispatched to respond to a string of tags along Academy Road
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Store owners and homeowners alike were shocked to come back from the long weekend to find a large strip of Academy Road had been vandalized with hundreds of tags. Homes, storefronts, walls, fences, garages, news boxes and even sidewalk flower pots were among the targets in a spree that happened either Thursday night or over the long weekend and stretched from Renfrew Street to Montrose Street. “I was lucky it’s on paint,” said Leather Patch owner Merv Chyz. “The ones across the street are on stone.” Chyz is among several tagging victims in the area who said he didn’t want to bother calling police and will be cleaning the graffiti himself. One resident living near Academy Road said she once owned a business on the strip of shops. Her home of 37 years was also sprayed with tags this weekend. “It’s so frustrating,” she said, declining to give her name for fear of being targeted. “I know they pick up these kids, but personally I think
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Katarina Lee, an employee at European Shoe Shop, says the graffiti comes and goes on Academy Road.
they should have to paint over it themselves. “These are really good businesses, and it makes the neighbourhood look shabby.” Francis Lobreau, staff member
at European Shoe Shop, said he contacted the store’s owner about the three tags on the building’s bright red walls. “No sooner than they clean it, then it’s back again,” said Lobreau.
“It seems to be a losing battle.” Academy BIZ chair Jenny Tasker said this is the first major graffiti incident she’s heard of this year, adding she started getting requests for cleanup crews Friday morning.
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