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Austrailians Arrested for Spraypainting Subway Cars
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Stan Rogers



Joined: 20 Aug 2010

PostPosted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 9:58 pm    Post subject: Austrailians Arrested for Spraypainting Subway Cars Reply with quote

http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=3001984&cloc=joongangdaily|home|top
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Qonny



Joined: 28 Oct 2014

PostPosted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 10:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Another graffiti artist conjectured, “It is likely that foreigners who used to practice graffiti art are working as English teachers during the day and painting at night.”


Cheers mate.
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mr_thehorse



Joined: 27 Aug 2013

PostPosted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 10:23 pm    Post subject: Re: Austrailians Arrested for Spraypainting Subway Cars Reply with quote

Stan Rogers wrote:
http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=3001984&cloc=joongangdaily|home|top


“And we discovered that most of them are from Australia or Canada based on the style of graffiti paintings.”

Is the style really that distinct to be able to identify them as from Australia or Canada?
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Stan Rogers



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 10:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So what will be the consequences of this? Will they get put on a travel watch list now by their respective countries?
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jazzmaster



Joined: 30 Sep 2013

PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 12:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Idiots. Hope any future perpetrators get caught and punished.
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Yaya



Joined: 25 Feb 2003
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 12:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The article said nothing about any arrests.
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jvalmer



Joined: 06 Jun 2003

PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 3:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yaya wrote:
The article said nothing about any arrests.

I highly doubt there will be arrests, unless the perpetrators literally fall into their laps. And even if that happened, they'd let them go after a few rounds of shared soju.

Probably not a top priority, it's not like they hurt anyone, just an annoyance. Not worth it getting them onto interpol's most wanted list.
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Paddycakes



Joined: 05 May 2003
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 5:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Can't be Canadians involved... if there were the subway cars would be covered in a bunch of gay Canadian flags...
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cj1976



Joined: 26 Oct 2005

PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 5:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2015/03/singapore-cane-germans-graffiti-train-150305074250201.html

Singapore ain't having any of that.
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Joe Boxer



Joined: 25 Dec 2007
Location: Bundang, South Korea

PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 6:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Paddycakes wrote:
Can't be Canadians involved... if there were the subway cars would be covered in a bunch of gay Canadian flags...

Lol!
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Steelrails



Joined: 12 Mar 2009
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 3:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just don't get graffiti of a used space. An old abandoned factory or wall or something, whatever. But to graffiti something that is in use and someone else's property? What kind of mindset thinks that's okay? No concept of respect for other people's property.

I'm sure they'd be down if someone spray painted a swastika all over their house. Why is it okay for them to do it to others, but wrong for others to do it to them?
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Smithington



Joined: 14 Dec 2011

PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 3:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Steelrails wrote:
I just don't get graffiti of a used space. An old abandoned factory or wall or something, whatever. But to graffiti something that is in use and someone else's property? What kind of mindset thinks that's okay? No concept of respect for other people's property.

I'm sure they'd be down if someone spray painted a swastika all over their house. Why is it okay for them to do it to others, but wrong for others to do it to them?


I couldn't agree more. I just don't know how they figure it's Canadians and Australians. I have a slight suspicion that they might be gyopos trying to introduce this aspect of Western "culture" to Korea. Anyway, lock them up whoever they are.
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Qonny



Joined: 28 Oct 2014

PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 4:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

They obviously have some clue, or think they do, as to identify exactly who these guys were:

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It was only after they flew back to their home country on Feb. 7 that the police identified the four Australians with security camera footage. They matched their faces on security footage from the airport and then checked immigration records.

The four men were found to have spent 10 days in Korea - dedicating at least three of those nights to spraypainting Seoul subway cars.


They know the exact dates of arriving and departing. Maybe they cross referenced cameras or something esle. Regardless, they have left the country. They aren't going to be arrested.
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jazzmaster



Joined: 30 Sep 2013

PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 5:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If they have their names and can prove they did it then I reckon they should ask for financial compensation.

And I'm all for the German graffiti idiots being caned in Singapore. I hope the public embarrassment will stop them doing something so stupid in the future.
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rainman3277



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 5:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Paddycakes wrote:
Can't be Canadians involved... if there were the subway cars would be covered in a bunch of gay Canadian flags...


lol, and it couldn't be American. It'd be spelled incorrectly.
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