I would think we, as a society, are sick of the graffiti that is put on walls and buildings and also on the train carriages that were stopped at Otford, but what’s happened to the ‘‘name and shame’’?
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These individuals go to the courts and are given good behaviour bonds or even community service orders, (which, it was stated a year or so ago, many fail to do or complete these orders) but if they are going to be named and shamed, it should be like this: ‘‘Joe Blogs, charged with graffiti attack at Wollongong, given a community service order, will be cleaning walls on the northern wall of the IPAC all day starting at 9am.’’
This is more of a name and shame and people would casually walk past and see who this perpetrator is and recognise him in further incidents, and this may deter his aim in defacing someone else’s property. Who knows, we have to try. In passing, who would dare stop a train, let alone stop one to graffiti it, just unbelievable.
