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This just seems like vandalism. If the original billboards truly are "illegal" (which I'm skeptical of), it is a matter for the city government, not a bunch of

• ivankirigin 17y ago
  I wouldn't call painting over temporary plywood walls covered in movie Ads vandalism.
  • tc 17y ago
    If a stranger (carefully) picked the lock to your home, then proceeded to vacuum-clean your carpets, mop your floors, and wash your windows, would you not call that breaking and entering? (I'm assuming here that the original advertisements were placed with the permission of the property owners. Otherwise the placing of the initial advertisements was vandalism, as is replacing them with something else.)
    • warfangle 17y ago
      Most of these temporary plywood walls, when they initially go up, are covered in stenciled signs saying "post no bills." Week or two later, and they're covered in these cheap poster ads.
      • dan_the_welder 17y ago
        Well I flyer for my business and we typically put a single flyer in several locations, sticking to billboards or phone poles. Whats really gross is when an ad agency uses a "street team" to carpet bomb every available surface. I also provide a bulletin board for public use in my establishment. I regularly have to remove the posters of people who put up ten or more and cover up other peoples flyers. I also remove the flyers that people put on my front windows, the bathroom mirrors and even tabletops. So really I see this issue as exactly the same as managing a message board. Encourage good content and delete spam or your board becomes a ghetto with a lousy signal to noise ratio. As far as the artists go, whether they are better or worse than the ads is a subjective decision. If anything they are at least creating a dialogue which is worth something.
  • Radix 17y ago
    If the owners of the temporary plywood walls recieved any money, I would. But, I don't live in a city. If warfangle is right then I guess not.
• teej 17y ago
  > If the original billboards truly are "illegal" They are. It's called "flyposting". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyposting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyposting
  • neilc 17y ago
    Flyposting is by definition illegal ("Flyposting is the act of placing advertising posters or flyers in illegal places"), but that doesn't answer the question about whether these particular ad billboards are illegal. The question is whether the original billboards were placed with the permission of the property owners.
    • paulgb 17y ago
      Permission from the property owner isn't enough; you need a permit to post advertisements (except in certain circumstances, IIRC). It is possible that the artists checked for permits before declaring the posters illegal. There are some people who actively work to get illegal billboards removed: http://illegalbillboards.org/ http://illegalbillboards.org/ http://illegalsigns.ca/ http://illegalsigns.ca/