{"id":155095,"date":"2024-03-31T10:05:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T14:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=155095"},"modified":"2024-03-31T09:43:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T13:43:47","slug":"man-102-constantly-victimized-by-graffiti-city-goes-after-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=155095","title":{"rendered":"Man, 102, constantly victimized by graffiti, city goes after him"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A 102-year-old man paints over graffiti on his fence. This is not the first time. (FOX 2 Detroit\/@FOX2News)\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Painting of another kind… A 102-year-old man has lived in his home for 80 years. His fence appears to have become a favorite graffiti location. Every time he paints over the graffiti, it does not remain free of “urban art” for long. People paint new graffiti on his wall, resulting in the city holding him accountable for removing it. Fines over $1,000 await him if he does not remove the graffiti. He is wheelchair bound, so his 70-year-old son has taken up the paint over jobs.<\/p>\n

From The Daily Caller:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier in March, Silva was told by the City of Oakland that he needed to paint over the graffiti by March 19 or the city would levy a $1,100 fine, with another potential $1,277 for each failed re-inspection, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n

“It was so absurd, it’s like a joke,” Silva’s daughter-in-law Elena said. “If you drive around the city and see the graffiti everywhere, it’s just I don’t know what to say.”<\/p>\n

Silva told KTVU that he was a contractor in his earlier days before being confined to a wheelchair and that it was easy to paint over it himself, KTVU reported.<\/p>\n

“Just had a roller and a paintbrush and just painted it,” he said, noting that he’ll be 103 in two months and that has “slowed it up a bit.”<\/p>\n

Currently, Silva’s 70-year-old son does the painting, but he said, “It’s hard to keep up with it because as soon as we get it painted, it’s gonna be graffiti on it again, and it won’t last.”<\/p>\n

Silva Jr. said that the family owns a commercial property that has been broken into three times in the last year and that each time he has called 911, KTVU reported.<\/p>\n

“And I’m put on hold every time. So it’s hard to understand where our tax dollars are going. They can’t answer 911, but they can come out and hassle you about a fence?” Silva Jr. said, adding, “I would hate to think that there [are] other hundred-year-old people that are being harassed like this.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Daily Caller has additional information here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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