Denver Bans Sharpies From City Buildings
We can understand increased security at government buildings during these challenging times.
We’ve gifted TSA agents with forgotten bottles of Christmas wine and jars of jelly. We’ve stripped off belts, necklaces and blinged-up sandals in order to enter the Denver City & County Building, and surrendered pocket knives and mean-looking bottle openers.
But while heading into the Wellington E. Webb Municipal Building last week, we discovered that another item had been added to the forbidden list: Sharpies.
Was the city worried that we might head into one of the elevators, take the cap off a permanent marker, inhale the fumes and go wild in a records office? Scrawl what we really thought of the parking referee’s refusal to void a ticket across the offending document? Get so irritated with the long wait for a building permit that we’d start taking down names?
Read more: http://www.westword.com/news/sharpies-banned-from-denver-municipal-building-9128979
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the city property are the primary cause for the ban.
Unfortunately, I see the same issue with the young kids in my apartment complex. While they are mostly using chalk, the kids get it ingrained into them that it is okay to draw and tag not only sidewalks, but the brick walls of buildings and every other piece of property available. I've even seen it on the washing machines and dryers in the community laundry room.
I blame most of it upon the parents who won't do anything to discipline the children and teach them that it is wrong to deface property that does not belong to them. I've become the "grumpy old man" of the apartment complex and I just turned 52. 