Don’t you hate it when crap does that to you?
Graffiti is a lot more common in Europe than in the US. Sometimes it will alarm our American visitors, leaving them wondering if they’ve wandered into a bad neighborhood. Nope, even the fancy ones have it.
(This last photo doesn’t highlight the subject very well, but if you look closely you’ll notice an ambulatory yellow-green penis on the left.)
Try my Amsterdam find from a few years ago:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/elmada/152009788/
It wasn't always like that. Graffiti started to become popular in Germany around the time that many US cities made an effort to clean up and prevent annoyance crimes. From my observations, I didn't start to see graffiti to any real level in Germany until around 1998. I think it's a shame and the Germans should make it a priority to enforce its verboten-ness.
Adam – nice one. But then I've come to expect such things from Amsterdam.
Perhaps the character Jonah was there from the Aussie series "Summer Heights High"
I have a great collage of Graffiti from a trip to Portugal. Regensburg has a new tagger who puts 'Hawaii' on everything. It's making want to pack up and go.
Duckie – Don't know that one. Off to google it…
Tammy – I suppose 'Hawaii' is a lot better than the 'fuckuall' which is showing up all over Munich.
Ok, now I'm on a mission to start noticing graffiti. I usually screen it out. Thanks! But I should be so lucky to find an ambulatory you-know-what. I don't dare hope.
I'm on a vacation & breather from blogging for a few weeks, but I scrolled down through my fav blogs & saw this entry. Hilarious! Not hilarious for the owners of the buildings, but a hilarious topic 😉 Your blog never fails to make me laugh!