Graffiti is bad and deservedly gets its share of public shame, and, hopefully, legal penalties, but what about those awful stickers? The self-adhesive promotional stickers handed out at clubs, skateboard shops and music stores have become a new kind of urban blight. Ironically, the slacker kids that stick them on signs, buildings, windows – virtually anything in the public way – would probably never spray paint graffiti or degrade the environment with markers, but the negative effect on the streetscape and property damage is nearly as bad.
