Recognize this guy?

@mikedylan2001 I suppose it's futile to try and shame the shameless but nothing ventured nothing gained. Thanks for this...and reminding us that we either call these guys out or this unacceptable behavior simply becomes the norm.

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-@mikedylan2001

I don't know that I would care that much about one tagger, except I've been seeing this anything goes attitude on social media from so many travelers passing through this country.

So seeing him as a representative of that ilk, I wish him nothing but the worst in his travels and Vietnam experience.

@mikedylan2001 I suppose it's futile to try and shame the shameless but nothing ventured nothing gained. Thanks for this...and reminding us that we either call these guys out or this unacceptable behavior simply becomes the norm.
-@redislandar

If identified, it will be more than shame the perp will experience. Guaranteed.

Old people call it vandalism. Owners of shops call it vandalism. Police do nothing, just an annoyance to them. Millennials and genx regard it as "street art", and beautiful, and laud hero artists. It has been mainstreamed as "graffiti", Italian word sounds so chic, like Michaelangelo. Galleries sell Basquiat. Started in the 70s by miscreants, hippies. Communities fund murals.

Tag, tagging, tagger words were invented, maybe in the 90s. "The purpose of tags is for an artist to have their tags recognized by other artists [taggers] in their locale." -wikipedia Tag.

Same same gangs and hoods.

Relates to "scent marking". A dog peeing on a building. So sez me because I'm old.

"Police do nothing.  .  . " No kidding. A Vietnamese woman, not in Ho Chi Minh City, told me that the police are useless. They can hardly be bothered to investigate, she said, "even a murder."

I was "successfully" targeted by a pickpocket in HCMC. At the time I was staying at a five-star hotel and the hotel sent me with two Vietnamese speakers, in a hotel-owned vehicle, to the police station to make a report, as advised by my consulate and the hotel management.

After some back-and-forth with the officer there, I found out that the police would only take my report if I agreed to say that I "lost" my wallet. My translator, from the hotel staff, whose English was totally fluent, said that the police didn't want a report saying I'd been pickpocketed because it would go into their "statistics" showing a higher rate of crime in their precinct. And that would appear on their performance reviews negatively.

I declined to make a report, stating that I only wanted to make a truthful report, not a false one, and left the station. So, no report; statistics remain safely anodyne.

@Lennerd It requires motivation - Lunch Money or Orders from the government.

@mitsmaak Lunch money. Yeah. *Chuckles.*