"These wild-boy tribes have decorated virtually everything along the route or bus bench, an on-ramp sign, billboards, murals, trees, utility boxes, mayoral candidates' signs, the vast concrete canvas of the Los Angeles River and the smallest curb" (Sipchen). ... Finally, tagging develops a sense of bad behavior by encouraging them to take unnecessarily dangerous risks like climbing a high place to tag on highway signs or billboards, and a sense of being inconsiderate by not thinking about how people would be affected by the graffiti. ...

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