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Found this on the Plain Dealer's site:

 

Two suburban graffiti "artists" will spend the next five years cleaning up the property damage they and others have inflicted on Cleveland.

 

A Cuyahoga County judge ordered XXXXXXXX of Seven Hills and XXXXXXXX of Wickliffe to perform 2,000 hours of community service each -- 400 hours per year.

 

Common Pleas Judge Judith Kilbane Koch also told the two that they will be responsible for reimbursing the cost of any property owner's cleanup of their "art."

 

 

 

 

 

But the novel part of the sentence is this: The taggers must perform that community service in conjunction with a new neighborhood-based "graffiti task force" whose existence the two vandals helped to spawn.

 

"Out of this, there's coming a whole lot of cohesion," Cleveland Councilman Jay Westbrook said after the morning sentencing. Five community-development corporations and a number of business leaders and city officials have formed the graffiti-fighting task force, whose leaders hope to expand it citywide, Westbrook and Assistant County Prosecutor Colleen Reali said. The task force will work not only to clean up the spray-paint scars but also to identify other taggers and prosecute them.

 

xxxxxxx, 19, and xxxxxxx, 20, apologized profusely to a crowd that jammed the courtroom. It was an about-face for xxxxxxx, who told police when he was arrested that he did it because "it's a run-down, ghetto city, so who cares."

 

The defendants portrayed themselves as bored, disaffected youths who viewed their marijuana-inspired spray-painting as art.

 

But the graffiti is "not only a property crime, but a crime against the community" because it conveys a sense of lawlessness and instills fear, Westbrook said.

 

Failure to abide could earn XXXXXXXX 5½ years in prison for felony vandalism and misdemeanor criminal damaging, and XXXXXXXXX six months in jail for criminal damaging. Police arrested them in May as they spray-painted on a Great Lakes Brewing Co. building in Ohio City.

 

"Tell your friends who are also tagging what will happen to them if they do that in this community, or any community," Koch told the duo.

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from that site

 

 

''whats the appropriate punishment for graffiti painters?''

 

on guy said-

"They should be made to hand-paint the dividing lines on Interstate 71 during rush hour." - Middleburg Heights dudes got a grudge lol

 

this one is fuckin funny

"Strap the little cowards naked to a lamppost in Public Square and spray-paint their genitals bright yellow." - Glenville

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