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Vallone Vs. Animal Magazine
Quoted from the Animal Website:
As reported in today’s NY Daily News, KIKO, a 28 year-old graffiti writer, was sentenced to 6 months in prison and forced to pay a $25,000 fine for his recent tagging spree in Astoria. Fanatical anti-graffiti critic and name recognition councilman Peter Vallone Jr., who once proclaimed, “I want this punk, and I want him bad… Catching this guy has been a personal vendetta of mine for a few months now” is credited with supporting some of NYC’s harshest graffiti laws ever, some of which were recently struck down as unconstitutional. He has used this issue as his personal soapbox for the past year or so, totally generating more press for himself than anything else he’s done. Although we do think KIKO should be punished in some form or another, specifically public service, we don’t think that any graffiti writer should ever have to serve jail time. In the long run this hurts the community more than any tag could. If anybody wants to do any peaceful renovations demonstrations, we suggest they travel to the belly of the beast. Here is Peter Vallone’s home address, 21-46 19th St. as provided by his own district office and press hack, Andrew something or other. So stop by, check out the lovely views of the Triborough Bridge and the massive Con Ed power plant, plus exercise your 1st Amendment writes.
You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comments will be moderated but will appear as soon as humanly possible.Crack dealers are never prosecuted with the same vigor that has been given to this kid KIKO. Six months is a hard sentence for writing on a wall. This kid might as well have been writing on a bathroom wall, because we never heard of him until the news got hold of this story….
October 27th, 2006 at 9:33 pm
these graff laws are ridiculous, community service or fines are enough_ maybe a program to get us writers over our addiction would help!
lets get rid of vallonee now!
November 3rd, 2006 at 3:55 am
gay man real gay fuck vallone nyc is fucked in terms of graff if this shit keeps happening
November 4th, 2006 at 11:48 am
YEAH I THINK THIS WHOLE SHIT WITH VALLONE HAS GONE TOO FAR! KIKO GOTTA PAY $25,000 PLUS DO 6MONTH SPLIT /5YR PROBATION. WTF? DOES’NT MAKE ANY SENSE