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1   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2020 Oct 8, 7:56pm  

There are plenty of speech that gets prosecuted in CA. Can’t speak up against left wing groups according to media.
2   Misc   2020 Oct 8, 7:59pm  

Political signs on private property
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the display of political and other types of signs on residential property is a unique, important, and protected means of communication, and towns cannot restrict the display of such signs. The decision has not been overturned.

https://www.bestofsigns.com/blog/a-guide-to-political-yard-signs/

You can report it to the FBI as a form of voter suppression, I'm sure they will be right on the case.
3   SunnyvaleCA   2020 Oct 8, 8:06pm  

Maybe Trump supporters can cause some sort of Streisand Effect™ with this.
4   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2020 Oct 8, 8:11pm  

Guarantee it that no one in CA has balls to sue. Sadly most Republicans here too have no balls.
5   Patrick   2020 Oct 8, 8:25pm  

I didn't think that sign was real until now.

Well done by somebody. I bet it will be back.
6   Automan Empire   2020 Oct 8, 9:03pm  

Cool and it had its moment in the sun. Erecting signs visible to highways has been strictly regulated by federal/state agreements for the last 50+ years under the Highway Beautification Act. It was causing an actual traffic hazard with drivers distracted in both directions. Also, no question they were not properly anchored, if they blew onto the highway and killed someone it would be a liability to Caltrans. Christo's umbrellas in the Tejon Pass are an example of this actually happening and those WERE well anchored. I remember a car dealership 25 years ago set up a really cool sky laser show way better than traditional searchlights, which took much permitting and coordination with agencies from the CDRH, FAA, and local fire department. It was quickly shut down by the CHP because it was a traffic hazard along MILES of freeway. There are many reasons and precedents for this action.

Trying to make this an Anti-Trump story is just, shall we say, sad and pathetic.
7   Ceffer   2020 Oct 8, 9:09pm  

Misc says
You can report it to the FBI as a form of voter suppression, I'm sure they will be right on the case.

You mean right after they round you up for plotting to kidnap Newsom?
8   Misc   2020 Oct 8, 9:38pm  

They won't even let a constitutionally protected political sign stay up, and we're supposed to trust these clowns with ballots?
9   Hircus   2020 Oct 8, 10:56pm  

They said it was reported at like 7am and was down around 11am I think. That's some record fucking time for CA govt to do anything.

lol, I bet caltrans got so many calls from angry NPCs giving them all kinds of potential excuses they can say for why they had to take it down. Maybe even a call from gruesome himself, whining.
10   clambo   2020 Oct 9, 8:55am  

It’s now very clear, the people often support Trump, while the government is against the people.

“What’s orange and sleeps 7?” A CALTRANS truck.

I hope they rebuild the sign on a mountaintop so they have a very hard time removing it.

I bet the landowner hates the idea that his property tax helps pay the rich pensions of the assholes who objected to his sign and removed it.
11   Zak   2020 Oct 9, 9:31am  

I just had an amazing idea after seeing the story about this sign right after a story about homeless tents in LA... Just go spray paint "TRUMP" in giant letters on all the homeless tents, and they will be down in 4 hours!
12   Shaman   2020 Oct 9, 10:29am  

Zak says
I just had an amazing idea after seeing the story about this sign right after a story about homeless tents in LA... Just go spray paint "TRUMP" in giant letters on all the homeless tents, and they will be down in 4 hours!




Hahahah! Awesome! Paint Trump on anything you want gone!

Even better: pay tagger kids to spray paint Trump all over the place!
13   Ceffer   2020 Oct 9, 12:10pm  

Automan Empire says
Erecting signs visible to highways has been strictly regulated by federal/state agreements for the last 50+ years under the Highway Beautification Act.


It would be nice if they could make the highways look a bit more first world again by removing the spray paint graffiti as fast as they removed this private property political statement. The spreading graffiti with the ghetto air drops makes the whole world look like some depressing shithole favela full of scum bags.
14   Automan Empire   2020 Oct 9, 3:24pm  

IDK about Caltrans properties but most municipalities are VERY quick to cover graffiti. I had to go to the Compton courthouse recently to deal with a ticket, on some things there the paint is literally over an inch thick and alligatoring in places. My suburb has a dedicated graffiti truck; the guy works full time taking pictures of tags and graffiti then painting them over with an effort to make it look nice, not an obvious patch job. The DA collects these photos and they maintain a database and prosecute and compel restitution when they identify individual taggers.
15   Ceffer   2020 Oct 9, 3:40pm  

Automan Empire says
The DA collects these photos and they maintain a database and prosecute and compel restitution when they identify individual taggers.




Nice try, but, you mean, like, almost never. Ergonomically, a DA would need huge full time staff to keep up with graffiti alone, and would have to shift resources to do so. The amounts they would collect in fines from dirtbags and youth, compared the resources to process graffiti artists would amount to a negative cash flow and a serious burden on the courts, while other more pressing matters lost resources. You can tell simply because the graffitors are largely uninhibited by any notion of apprehension or punishment.

Shit, in California, the operative progressive mandate is all catch and release now, if they even bother to catch, for anything less than personal mayhem and murder. Plus, no community should even have to hire a 'dedicated graffiti truck', another tax sucking entity.
Yeah, but they are Johnny On The Spot for Trump sign on private property.
16   Automan Empire   2020 Oct 9, 3:46pm  

I've sat in court waiting as the DA and public defender went back and forth on the damages to public art done by a dour looking teenager. They had a thick dossier on his tags. While it may be hard to collect a cash judgement in a lump sum from such defendants, it dogs them for years and provides a disincentive to wrecking public things. The wheels of justice grind slowly but it's not true to say "nothing" is being done or happens to taggers. Plus, graffiti isn't going to blow across traffic lanes and smash through a windshield or cause a chain reaction crash unlike the Trump sign. Poor comparison, scrapes the bottom of the debate barrel on this topic.
17   Ceffer   2020 Oct 9, 3:55pm  

A sample of one blatant tagger isn't particularly convincing, nor is the purely 'hypothetical' damage of a sign on private property. You could also claim a political sign in yard should be removed because wind could cause it to impale neighborhood children. The use of selective 'hypothetical' damage is the same as selective justice, and is just as corrupt.
18   RWSGFY   2020 Oct 9, 3:57pm  

Zak says
I just had an amazing idea after seeing the story about this sign right after a story about homeless tents in LA... Just go spray paint "TRUMP" in giant letters on all the homeless tents, and they will be down in 4 hours!


Genius!
19   Ceffer   2020 Oct 9, 4:05pm  

FuckCCP89 says
I just had an amazing idea after seeing the story about this sign right after a story about homeless tents in LA... Just go spray paint "TRUMP" in giant letters on all the homeless tents, and they will be down in 4 hours!

This won't work. The community 'graffiti truck' will just come by and paint them over.
20   Patrick   2023 Feb 13, 5:03pm  

In Canada:


21   richwicks   2023 Feb 13, 5:52pm  

Ceffer says

Nice try, but, you mean, like, almost never. Ergonomically, a DA would need huge full time staff to keep up with graffiti alone, and would have to shift resources to do so. The amounts they would collect in fines from dirtbags and youth, compared the resources to process graffiti artists would amount to a negative cash flow and a serious burden on the courts,


Depends on where you live.

I'm in Sunnyvale. When graffiti shows up here, it's immediately removed. This is because graffiti invites more graffiti, so if it's immediately removed, there's less to deal with.

There was a tag on a Subway store, it lasted a day. The people that did it, smashed the window of the Subway, it was fixed the next day. There's zero tolerance for it. When taggers realize that what they do won't stay up for long, and that whatever they make will be immediately removed, and also, if they persist, they WILL BE CAUGHT, they give up.

Plenty of graffiti along the canals though. Nobody cares about that.
22   Misc   2023 Feb 14, 11:30pm  

In Arizona taggers permanently lose their privilege of ever having a driver's license.

It has done wonders.
23   HeadSet   2023 Feb 15, 6:14am  

Misc says

In Arizona taggers permanently lose their privilege of ever having a driver's license.

It has done wonders.

Even if the tagger is an illegal?
24   Misc   2023 Feb 16, 10:03am  

Yes, even for illegals.

Illegals can get driver's licenses in AZ, as they can in most states, but they tag...they never get one.

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