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Saturday, September 1, 2007

Better stock up now

The City of Portland's new ordinance requiring that retailers lock up spray paint and require customers buying it to show identification may have some unexpected consequences. A local hardware store owner writes:

We would be able to lock up the paint fairly easily, that is not the issue. It is the draconian record keeping that would take the time and hence the money to operate. I am not sure about this but I think someone would have to write a computer program to coordinate all the info as well. Who will pay for that? We would support measures that would decrease tagging, but it seems to us that the taggers should be punished, not the public.
At present what we are going to do is sell out what we have in paint. We will not be stocking spray paint at all. What we will have is a small display stating that we are no longer carrying spray paint and we will have small cards with Randy [Leonard]'s phone number and email so that our customers can contact him for an explanation.

Man, this isn't sustainable. Think of all the gas people are going to burn driving to Beaverton to score some Krylon.

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Comments (6)

It's a good thing taggers can't shop beyond city limits. If they could, this strategy might look foolish.

Now if we could transport all the matrixed jail inmates to Lake Oswego, downtown would be Clean and Safe again.

Posted by Mister Tee | September 1, 2007 1:22 PM

Actually, they just need a ride to Welches.

Posted by Jack Bog | September 1, 2007 1:25 PM

How long before Home Depot, Lowes etc in Gresham Beaverton & Tigard but NOT PDX advertise cheap paint sales?

Posted by Mike | September 1, 2007 3:43 PM

Sometimes I wonder which is worse: the mayor who hasn't done anything, or a city council that does things... stupid things.

Posted by Aaron B. Hockley | September 1, 2007 4:43 PM

"Sometimes I wonder which is worse: the mayor who hasn't done anything, or a city council that does things... stupid things."

Great question.

To those who support Mayor Potter and/or those on the city council, why?

Posted by Joey Link | September 1, 2007 10:41 PM

Consider Vera's Snout House ban.

What an idiotic policy which hasn't provided a single benefit to the city or anyone.

Posted by Ben | September 3, 2007 8:23 AM