Hi Ed, I was just wondering why the graffiti at the bottom of West Street has not been removed or painted over yet ? surely it's only a ten minute job, our lovely town is usually graffiti free and I'm amazed it's been there so long. I'd do it myself but there's probably some stupid reason why it's still there.
Chesilbank
Dear Chesilbank – I take it you mean the picture of a badly drawn penis and the initials "CMT" it's hardly the work of Banksy is it? CMT apparently stands for "Criminally Minded Thugs" who are a local gang of juvenile delinquents, the penis graphic was added later by rival youths. I don't know why members of this gang who are known to the authorities were not made to scrub it off.
I have reported it to the WDDC Wipe-out graffiti removal project. (0815 7/1/09)
Readers are encouraged to send in alternative definitions for C.M.T. and possible punishments for claiming membership…
CMT : childish muppet trainee cancel my tomorrow can’t make t’grade call myself twerp
I note that there are two of these delightful graphics gracing our town walls now … and in a tasteful gray … maybe we could find someone to turn them into something creative and beautiful as no-one seems keen on getting rid of them …
Clueless Moronic Tw**s
thanks for your reply but what i can’t understand is why it needs “”reporting”” surely it bloody obvious ! why is’nt it removed straight away ? come on those in charge GET ON WITH IT.
If you nip into the tourist information and ask them… What’s the graffiti c*ck doing on the wall in West Street? They’ll tell you, “it’s a marker for a walk to Cerne Abbas called the [b]C[/b]erne [b]M[/b]illennium [b]T[/b]rail”, They also have a little map you can follow, it costs a pound, bargain.
What do you mean, “”badly drawn?
It’s a new webspeak way to write [url=http://cmt.org.uk/]CMT.ORG[/url]
Always the same old crap isn’t it eh? We’ve criminalised young people in Bridport for so long, that they have given up trying to achieve in life and feel it necessary to Criminalise themselves! Somewhere out there there is a highly amusing rap/hip-hop track that some members of CMT have recorded (but I can’t find it on youtube…) – so there you are…creative and criminally minded. Oh and, It’s not Graffiti. It’s tagging. The former requiring talent, the latter being a territorial marker.
what it is is an eyesore and it’s STILL THERE !!!!!! and worse of all it’s being added to.
Wasn’t Badly Drawn Penis a pop singer?
Theres another one behind the Post Office I think. I love graffiti when its done right, theres been some good things happening down the Skate Park lately. But if they have no artistic talent they should PUT THE PAINT CAN DOWN!!
Cocks On The Wall. The town’s walls’ are awash with cocks, The perpetrators should be locked in stocks, Thrown in cells with no keys to the locks, Their private parts cut off and put in a box.
How would you know (lilPete) if someone had artistic talent? This has to be one of the oldest unanswered questions of all time
OK granted that it’s no-ones place to judge the art of another but I’m pretty certain that public art is usually put to a committee, voted for, discussed, put to a public vote, discussed some more and sometimes even commissioned. This is not public art … pubic art yes … public art no. But I bet if someone went around town with a tin of paint and got rid of them they’d be arrested for defacing property…
Why doesn’t the shopkeeper clean it up?
Bet if the Council did paint it over, they’d use the minimum amount of paint, resulting in a penile silhouette.
what a dusty dreary world you speak of, where creativity is sanctioned by comittees…. Graffiti, is by its nature anarchy and is not subject to these constraints, if it angers you or pleases you it has done its job. (willow h)
creativity ?!?!? maybe it’s done it’s job but why hav’nt the council done their’s and got rid of it ? give it a bit longer and i’ll be creative myself.