Graffiti

[Tuesday Wildchild]

Hi all I live 5minutes from the the route and walk along a part of it at least once a day but this last week I have noticed marker pen graffiti on two route markers.

 

[Tuesday Wildchild]

 

[SYates]

Yeah, I remember a case like that from way back. I was a hospitalera in O Cebreiro then and the Guardia Civil turned up looking for a pilgrim that had signed each way marker with his real name ...
Buen Camino, SY

 

[Tuesday Wildchild]

Yeah, I remember a case like that from way back. I was a hospitalera in O Cebreiro then and the Guardia Civil turned up looking for a pilgrim that had signed each way marker with his real name ...
Buen Camino, SY

Idiot



I assume it wasn't a local for as far as we know we are the only English for 6km that lives here all year.

 

[SYates]

Don't underestimate the ability of us foreigners to handle English ;-) Buen Camino, SY

 

[Mike Trebert]

Near Ponferrada. And I'm a vegetarian. He (why do I assume it was a 'he'?) had also written on the next marker: "Famous last words - 'I didn't know that snake was poisenous.' " Misspelling the word "poisonous" - of course. Tedious prat.

Mike

 

[Mark Lee]

I would easily bet on it being a "he". A very rude, inconsiderate and obviously poorly educated "he".
If he was ever prosecuted for the criminal damage, a good punishment would be to hand scrub and clean Camino markers for several kilometers. A bucket, a brush and soap. Sweat equity and elbow grease.

 

[trecile]

I would easily bet on it being a "he". A very rude, inconsiderate and obviously poorly educated "he".
If he was ever prosecuted for the criminal damage, a good punishment would be to hand scrub and clean Camino markers for several kilometers. A bucket, a brush and soap. Sweat equity and elbow grease.

An idiot woman in the US created "art" in a number of national parks in the US and posted them to Instagram.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ations-posting-evidence-crimes-Instagram.html

 

[Icacos]

An idiot woman in the US created "art" in a number of national parks in the US and posted them to Instagram.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ations-posting-evidence-crimes-Instagram.html

Makes the Camino graffiti seem inconsequential.

 

[Mike Trebert]

Makes the Camino graffiti seem inconsequential.

What may seem relatively inconsequential is still: ugly to look at, is an irritating and lingering reminder of idiocy, if not a crime, and has to be cleaned up. That American woman is a border-line sociopath possessed of zero self-awareness. Hopefully, she's an outlier. Way outlier.

 

[Tuesday Wildchild]

Small things grow into large things.

 

[Anemone del Camino]

Am I missing something? Not that I think graffiti is ok, but isn't there graffiti on just about every mojon, and many other surfaces, along the Camino? I remember a thread on this Forum last year, I beleive, about Beattles' lyrics that went from surface to surface completing the song. Wasn't there a buff with a Camino graffiti neing sold here once as well? (Never understood why anyone would promote that!)

What is particular about this one?

Another expression of the lack of respect people have for these routes.

 

[Mike Trebert]

Am I missing something? Not that I think graffiti is ok, but isn't there graffiti on just about every mojon, and many other surfaces, along the Camino? I remember a thread on this Forum last year, I beleive, about Beattles' lyrics that went from surface to surface completing the song. Wasn't there a buff with a Camino graffiti neing sold here once as well? (Never understood why anyone would promote that!)

What is particular about this one?

Another expression of the lack of respect people have for these routes.

There's graffiti on many but not all markers. Any graffiti on a marker is ugly. Generally, some graffiti is art, but not much of it, IMHO. The photo I posted is an example of sadly egregious stupidity. I guess I'm surprised that so many disaffected, anarchistic folk are present on the Camino. Most peregrinos would have a less egotistical mind set, it seems to me. I'm not saying it's a better one or that angry anarchists have nothing worthwhile to say.

This whole issue won't go away. I've seen countless yellow arrows painted on all kinds of surfaces - trees, pavement, private walls, guardrails, Camino markers(!), etc., etc. When is making a mark useful/acceptable and when is it not?

 

[Mark Lee]

An idiot woman in the US created "art" in a number of national parks in the US and posted them to Instagram.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ations-posting-evidence-crimes-Instagram.html

And she calls herself an "artist". Obviously not a very intelligent artist. When I see something like that, I always just ask myself, why?

 

[Tuesday Wildchild]

Am I missing something? Not that I think graffiti is ok, but isn't there graffiti on just about every mojon, and many other surfaces, along the Camino? I remember a thread on this Forum last year, I beleive, about Beattles' lyrics that went from surface to surface completing the song. Wasn't there a buff with a Camino graffiti neing sold here once as well? (Never understood why anyone would promote that!)

What is particular about this one?

Another expression of the lack of respect people have for these routes.

Yes your right graffiti is everywhere but that does mean we have to accept more where there was none.
Nothing particular about it just as one who has never walked the Way I was surprised at seeing it, I'll know now not to give it a second thought when I get on the Way proper like.

 

[Anemone del Camino]

The picture is a waymarker in France, on the voie de Tours, and no, there isn't graffiti on just about every waymarker. I mainly remember the many shaky arrows that people have scratched on them (you see one in the second picture), done by people who had failed to figure out that the position of the waymarker indicates the direction (there is a logic behind the system).

I see.There is so much graffiti in Spain that I was surprised this one would be pointed out. I remember shaking my head in disbeleif when seeing over and over again graffitis of "Om mani padme hum"! Surely someone familiar with that mantra should be sensible enough to know defacing buildings and other property is not acceptable.

 

[craigmiller]

... so many disaffected, anarchistic folk ...

It's not just anarchists - years ago at Persepolis, ancient capital of Persia, I read an inscription, chiseled into a building stone: "Lt. ___ _____ , British Expeditionary Force, 1856".

 

[Joanne - Falmouth]

There is a time and a place and way makers aren't the place