WEEKLY GROSS-OUT: Tagging

8==D TATION. Does the name Jonah Takalua spring to mind whenever you see this tasteless play on the word "dictation"? Never mind that, because there's a graffiti artist on the loose and this weekend, they left their anti-social mark on a town called Pareora. Taggers defaced buildings, fences, and mailboxes in the town over the weekend. The Pareora Rugby Football Club suffered a lot of the weekend's vandalism after taggers spray-painted nearly every wall of both its buildings. This is just senseless and wrong. What makes this worse is that club president Craig Scott has put some of his own hard-earned cash into the club to keep it going this season, so finding funds to cover the damage would be hard to come by. Pareora resident Mike Phillips also had his fence tagged overnight on Friday. A friend had alerted him to the obscene language tagged on his green fence in The Avenue, but he declined to say what the words were. I don't know who the responsible bellends are, but whoever they are, they should be aware that their actions have consequences. Tagging has been a continuing problem for the wider South Canterbury area in recent weeks, however, some of the people responsible have been caught. And in time, so will the bellends responsible for the graffiti in Pareora.