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Thread ID: 89734	2008-05-10 04:49:00	Tagger gets own medicine	Nomad (952)	PC World Chat

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667906	2008-05-10 04:49:00	I saw this on the frontpage of the newspaper: Instead I would of threw my kneee at his face. At one of our properties, we had to put in a roller door in front of the shop's window cos they broke, someone just cracked the shop's window right in the middle - so we put in a metal roller door and replaced the glass and other than that .. we have tagging on the roller door and around the shop on the walls. Now when they walk past they smash the roller door with their hands or their beer bottles. Come out at night and there are smashed beer bottle on the floor and the corner phone booth that glass cabinet is like freq smashed up. We had it painted by the council's people, but still 2 weeks after tagging came back.... A drunken tagger got a taste of his own medicine when a bar manager nabbed him and defaced him with a marker pen in front of 100 cheering patrons. Quentin McKelvey, 21, an orchard worker of Hastings, was caught on camera scribbling on a wall at Havelock North's Turks Bar soon after 2am on April 18. After confirming it was McKelvey, who was still drinking in the pub, manager Dion Cooper tried reasoning with him. "I said, `Mate, you've got a bit of cleaning to do,' and gave him a spray bottle and a cloth. I was just going to make him clean it and let him go, but he started swearing at me and refusing to do it." So, seeing the thick green paint pen in McKelvey's back pocket, Mr Cooper ripped it out, grabbed McKelvey by his hair and began drawing over his face. "I asked him, `How do you like that, mate? How do you like being drawn on?' I put a bit on his clothes, said, `Oh sorry, mate, I've just wrecked your clothes, like you wrecked my wall, how did you like it?"' He then tossed McKelvey into the garden bar, and threw the pen at him. "There were about 80 to 100 people cheering. I did most of the drawing on him inside, then a bit more on the back ramp. He had to walk through a crowd covered in green ink. "This guy is 21. He should know better. It's such a pain in the arse. I can see why people rob banks; there's something to gain. "But I mean, what pleasure would you get out of writing on people's walls? I think it's a mental problem more than anything," Mr Cooper said. McKelvey has not been charged for tagging the bar, but earlier this month he appeared before Judge Tony Adeane in Hastings District Court for sentencing on two charges of intentional damage and one of drink driving. On April 18 he tagged a railway control box and a grandstand before being caught driving in Hastings with a breath alcohol level of 617mcg. The legal limit is 400mcg. He was sentenced to 150 hours' community work and nine months' supervision, disqualified from driving for six months, and given a final warning. "You get caught tagging again and you'll get jail time," said Judge Adeane, who has recently sent two other taggers to prison. McKelvey said yesterday that he was drunk when he tagged the bar and did not remember much about that night: "I know it's really irresponsible and I've learnt my lesson now." The experience of appearing before Judge Adeane - and facing the possibility of prison - had scared him straight, he said. "I haven't done it since and I won't do it again." Oops .. can a mod put it in the other forum. :thanks	Nomad (952)
667907	2008-05-10 04:53:00	About time these S&^%$# got something done to them	gary67 (56)
667908	2008-05-10 05:37:00	What a great story! deserved more than that. Pity it's only one tagger.:mad:	Roscoe (6288)
667909	2008-05-10 06:55:00	Nice, I'd love to congratulate the bar manager myself!	qazwsxokmijn (102)
667910	2008-05-10 07:04:00	And the bar manager will get prosecuted and the tagger will keep offending. No way has he learnt a lesson.	beeswax34 (63)
667911	2008-05-11 09:06:00	Bet it was imensely satisfying	jermsie (6820)
667912	2008-05-11 09:47:00	There was a case in the Tauranga region a year or so ago, where the residents caught a some taggers, gathered around them and made them clean it off. They also called the local newspaper, who sent a reporter around to record the situation. Gave most people a warm fuzzy and a good laugh.	Marnie (4574)
667913	2008-05-11 09:48:00	Ha ha ha. What about the jaffa that stabbed one to death. ha ha ha. Wait, that's not funny. :eek:	Metla (12)
667914	2008-05-11 21:53:00	And the bar manager will get prosecuted and the tagger will keep offending. No way has he learnt a lesson. Hopefully not. We have Judge Tony Adeane here in HB. He has a low tolerance rate for stupid drunks and taggers. Long may he stay here dispensing JUSTICE Ken	kenj (9738)
667915	2008-05-11 22:01:00	The tagger got what he deserved. I hope if the bar owner gets ANY punishment whatsoever, there will be a massive public outcry about it, he did the right thing. He was sensible about it, he wasn't violent, and he gave the guy a chance. The tagger brought it upon himself. That is not being a vigilante, like the cops seem to try and make out in these situations.	wratterus (105)
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