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Tagging the wrong bus...

DOH! When spending a pleasant afternoon in downtown LA spray-painting your logo onto public transportation, it's a good thing if your bus doesn't have the Mayor, your own school principal and a film crew. From Topix/LA Times:

Student arrested in bus tagging
He goes by the nickname 'Zoner' and he apparently tagged the wrong bus in the wrong place at the wrong time.

A 15-year-old sophomore at the Santee Education Complex in South L.A. was arrested late Tuesday on suspicion of being the student who scrawled his nickname on the outside window of a city bus carrying Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Schools Supt. David L. Brewer, among others. Santee Principal Vince Carbino, who was also on the bus Monday, said he believed the youth had no idea that dignitaries were aboard - but looked stunned, hid his face and stopped his tagging when he saw a photographer on the bus taking his picture.

Carbino said Tuesday that school officials had identified the youth, spoken to a parent and agreed to meet with them. He described the boy only as 'having achievement issues in school.'

Achievement issues my big fat hairy ass. I got just the thing for your achievement issues and it's called proper parenting. From the article:

One boy who said he was Zoner's friend insisted the student wasn't violent or malicious, but liked 'messing around a lot.' The tagging had nothing to do with gangs, said Julio Osorio, 15. 'They do it for fun, to vandalize,' he said.

I hope Zoner spends several hundred hours scrubbing busses this summer. Give him some time to think about things... Soooo busted. Heh... Posted by DaveH at March 2, 2007 7:58 PM