Entries Tagged as 'vandalism'
Shawna in Toronto spotted this note during a visit to her grandparents’ condo in Miami. The only remaining evidence of “despicable vandalism,” she says, was a bit of scratched paint. Making “those that have the most to gain”…the painting contractors?
related: be informed, homeland security will be
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Tags: elevator · excessive underlining · miami · vandalism
Exhibit a) The “urban” example, from the Silver Lake neighborhood of L.A…
Exhibit b) The equally ineffectual suburban cousin of exhibit a, from “a quiet, small community in San Diego where the residents are basically all over 50.”
related: bleak house
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Tags: california · garbage · graffiti · los angeles · questionable logic · san diego
i mean, really…messages like this are just chum for bored teenagers, no?
writes marc from chicago: “i saw this in a small town off route 26 in nebraska. as soon as i finished snapping photos of the signs, the woman who ran the drive-thru came out and demanded to know what i was doing. once she [...]
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Tags: restaurant · retail hell · stealing · vandalism
sarah from san fran was taking a little stroll in berkeley, california last december when she saw a house that clearly belonged to the “more is more” school of holiday decorating.
you know the type: “giant candy canes, red bows, lights, even one of those life-sized plastic snow globes that blows confetti snow all around inside [...]
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Tags: guilt trip · holiday spirit · moms & dads · stealing · vandalism
PES picked this note out of an apartment building in newark, nj in 2004 because he loved the third paragraph, which is oh-so-amazing. add in the peculiar diction and the glorious redundancy of it all, and you’ve got one fucking delicious note.
p.s. for more deliciousness, be sure to check out the stop-motion shorts at eatpes.com.
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Tags: CAPS LOCK · exclamation-point happy! · garbage · gloriously redundant · graffiti · jersey · landlord · loitering · newark · not-so-veiled threats · questionable logic · shameless meme-mongering · smoking
those troublemakers requesting more crazy apartment notes can thank our anonymous submitter, a GM at a property management firm in springfield, missouri for today’s masterpiece. “one of our resident managers delivered this letter to 115 units at her property, then e-mailed me a copy because she was REALLY proud of it,” our submitter writes. “i [...]
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Tags: TLDR · cleaning · dogs · exclamation-point happy! · garbage · irregular capitalization · itemized list · landlord · missouri · more like crazy · music · noise · not-so-veiled threats · parking · rhetorical question · smoking · spelling and grammar police · vandalism
“random people seem to have a lot of fun vandalizing portland’s many bus stops,” says kathryn. “several of the stops i use frequently have had their schedules removed, which is oh- so-helpful. the other day when i went to the stop in front of my office to go home, i noticed this little note. they [...]
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Tags: die bitch die · portland · rhetorical question · vandalism
one of our regular trouble makers, boggywoggy (a.k.a. val in oregon) took some time off from the comments section this weekend to go fishing, and decided to grab a quick bite at waldport, oregon’s, er, finest, the flounder inn. val spotted this note on one of the restroom stalls.
adds val, “i thought about putting [...]
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Tags: bathroom · graffiti · im-speak · more aggressive than passive · not-so-veiled threats · oregon · spelling and grammar police
explains sarah in new york city: “one lab in the building where i work has covered the walls outside their lab with candid photos of the lab members. over time, some of these photos got some ‘modifications’ from passers-by, such as a mustache or horns here or there. mature, I know. today, i [...]
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Tags: excessive underlining · graffiti · more aggressive than passive · new york · nonsensical spacing · not-so-veiled threats · office · signed with love · spelling and grammar police