In a recent trip to San Francisco, I stayed at the Hotel of the event I was there to attend, the historic Fairmont Hotel.
This beautiful hotel has some amazing architecture and craftsmanship throughout. During a mid-morning break I took a moment to visit the bathroom. As men do, we walk up to the urinal and stare at the wall, or even the plumbing on top of the urinal. This time I noticed that there "tagging," or gang writing, scratched into the chrome of the toilet plumbing. Tagging being the practice of gang members marking their territory or advertising their presence.
On one level I was upset that there seemed to be no place nice enough to not have gang tagging somewhere - except maybe the temple bathrooms.
Then I wondered, "why would you want to 'claim' a toilet as your gang property? Why would you want your gang to be the 'toilet gang'?"
Seriously?!
This beautiful hotel has some amazing architecture and craftsmanship throughout. During a mid-morning break I took a moment to visit the bathroom. As men do, we walk up to the urinal and stare at the wall, or even the plumbing on top of the urinal. This time I noticed that there "tagging," or gang writing, scratched into the chrome of the toilet plumbing. Tagging being the practice of gang members marking their territory or advertising their presence.
On one level I was upset that there seemed to be no place nice enough to not have gang tagging somewhere - except maybe the temple bathrooms.
Then I wondered, "why would you want to 'claim' a toilet as your gang property? Why would you want your gang to be the 'toilet gang'?"
Seriously?!
These gangs also love to claim filthy gas station bathrooms as their territory.
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