May 12, 2008...12:37 pm
9-11 update
Grateful to James Barlow in the comments for flagging this story up from Trym Tales.
Police have arrested 7 local teenagers in connection with a spate of graffiti in the Westbury on Trym and Henleaze areas.
Their work seems to have been centred around the tag “9-11 inside job” which has appeared on walls, pavements and exchange boxes for public phones. The repair bill for their work runs into thousands of pounds.
The arrests followed a member of the public who saw the youths committing an act of vandalism and photographed them. The police then followed up the evidence and took action. A combination of cautions and final warnings have been given to the 7 and, so far, no further graffiti has appeared in the area.
Surprised there were seven of them at it, though it was pretty comprehensively sprayed everywhere for a while, and it wasn’t really a tag they were spraying, more of a statement, but still, may put an end to this bit of graf for a while. Can’t say as i’ll miss it to be honest…
4 Comments
May 12, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Free the 9-11 7 !
May 12, 2008 at 1:17 pm
If only they’d been claiming that the bombings of the 7th of July in London were a conspiracy, so we could have had ‘free the 7-7 7!’.
May 12, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Oh, I saw that news the other day, but they just said it was “teenage vandals”, so I figured really nothing worth paying attention to. Seven of them + it being the 9/11 inside job kiddies. That’s a bit of a shame, made me smile. Good thing they’re young, eh?
May 13, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Ahhh well. End of an era.
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