graffiti in Pastita

[colleen]

We bought a home on Arquitectos in 2002. Quite a few years later, after it was no longer Privada, we got some graffiti. It wasn't too bad and I figured that if we tried to take it off, they'd love the fact that it bothered us, and double down. So it stayed for at least 5 yrs. Then the jovenes had a great time on Xmas eve. The neighbor who is the 1st house on the left side after the bridge got 2 sides of the house covered, as far as they could reach, plus stone and the metal door to the parking. CFE had just redone a tin roof shack and it is covered w/ crap. They even climbed up to cover cement over a new water system. Then they got as far as our house and climbed up to put a little bit, signatures only, on a stone buttress on our house. That was as far as they went. Nobody else got it. They are very good at translating 'chinga la policia' and drawing stylized penises. I think our property was the last of their nite of artfullness. It appeared that they started at the baseball stadium which has it's stone walls covered, then the newly painted houses near it, Gorky, the school, and that is all I can see. The cop told me that they had done more on the other side of the street on their way past CFE and on up to us.

If San Miguel can stop graffiti, what the heck is the problem here? Pastita looks like a slum. If someone drove me up here to look at a house to buy, after seeing photos on line, I wouldn't care what was on the inside of the house, I wouldn't get out of the car to look. Who wants to live with this shit?

Also, does anyone know what might remove this graffiti from stones? I've refinished alot of furniture in my life, including a few pieces this last month. But I think it would just mess up even more than it is right now. Aren't these graffiti-s with letters in them, or the ones with the same symbols repeated all over town, the signature of the guy who's doing it? Does anyone in the city care about this? I'd think that the young people know exactly who is doing what.

Any ideas?