Move Over, Ket! City Targets Child's Chalk "Graffiti"

What, they couldn't wait for the next rainstorm?

Just once, I'd love to see these folks who take these calls just say, "oh, knock it off" and hang up.

Lock her up and throw away the key!! I'm kidding... This is ridiculous I'd much rather see a child with chalk in her hands than guns or drugs. This does no harm, personally I would enjoy to walk down the road and see a child's artwork all over the sidewalk. The city should be ashamed of themselves...

Hey, it's a gateway crime just like jaywalking and squeejee men - straight from the Giuliani "playbook"...

Why isn't she at work? Just leeching off society...

little hooligan!

30 lashes with a cane!

maybe we should cut off her thumbs!

LOCK HER UP AND THROW AWAY THE KEY!

where is PETER VALLONE's outrage at this little hoodlum's vandalism!?!??!?

Everyone knows that chalk-artistry is simply a gateway pastime that will lead to hallucinatory experiences like tea on the ceiling and a lifetime of chimney sweeping drudgery. Stay away from the chalk kids.

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As they'd say in Digg-land, RTFA:

"A 6-year-old Park Slope girl is facing a $300 fine from the city for doing what city kids have been doing for decades: drawing a pretty picture with common sidewalk chalk."

Notwithstanding the park-slopishness of the whole tale, it is kind of sad that cases like this are where gray areas of the law are exposed - but thus good bc we now know about them.

But can we have a complaint line for reporting overzealous callers of 311 as well?

Wait, how do you know it's Park Slope?

Sigh. I live in and love the Slope, but I knew as soon as I started reading that that's where it was going to be...

Park Slope is great for families, but there are a fair share of the uptight, twitchy assholes mentioned above. And for the record, I don't have kids myself.

As soon as I read the headline I knew it had to be Park Slope. I'm cryin' in my beer.

Reality Czech is mean towards children because China no longer allows fags like him and his homo lover to adopt Chinese children.

Since he can never experience the joys of parenthood, he takes his anger out on families everywhere.

The father's quote is hilarious...great sense of humor.

Somebody get me this kid's contact info--I need her to make some custom kicks for me!

chalkin-in, anybody??

she's a six year for chrissake.

number one hit the nail on the head. dried up old hag had to think of her career first. now it's too late. I bet she's so selfish she won't even adopt because technically it's not her spawn.

'And her father George Shea said, "I do love that kid, but I wish she would stop capping my tags.”'

Ha, classic comment from Dad!

Bitter old people with twitching ass holes. Missed out on life and have to make the rest of the world pay.

Leave the kiddies alone and go back to sitting and masturbating alone in your dark corner of the world.

Where's the splasher when you need him!?

On a side note, if I saw that girl drawing on my building, I would say "What a beautiful drawing! Now go get a bucket of water and a sponge and clean it off".

Oh, the humanity! I would think Park Slope would be the last place anyone would complain about this. Isn't Park Slope the place you go to procreate and spawn before you move to Lawnguyland?

The city idiots continue to defy logic and intelligence. But at the same time the law is the law and the child has to answer to it. I would suggest 15 to 20 at hard labor and then parole for life. I also suggest someone should drop a noose on the neighbor's doorway, just to keep her on the edge.

Are you kidding me? "These brats and their over protective parents?" Have you ever heard of enjoying childhood? A six year old should be allowed to use sidewalk chalk and all of the miserable adults out there should stop and admire the beauty-it might even cheer you up. The lesson to be learned is to enjoy the journey...you are only here for a short while.

Haha. Wow. This is like when the city gave some girl scouts in Brooklyn tickets for unlicensed street vending.

It's park slope man. People there are dicks if you don't live in boxes.

There's probably at least 20 people per block in this city that aren't happy unless they're complaining about something that really isn't very important.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/mail/html/maildos.html

send the commissioner a note.

Whoever called 311 may have it in for this family unfortunately - if not this then something else to nit pick about - can they find out who called?

If I can't draw swastikaz on synagogues and old dixie in harlem then this lil despot can't draw on the sidewalk. Surely Jake Dobkin and Judith Supine agree with me.

#1, that is probably the most true statement I've ever read on gothamist.

Gersh Kuntzman is funny. Kathy Dawkins -- the DOS spokesperson -- screwed this one up, though probably on orders from her superiors. Disregarding that the girl is 6 and she's using chalk, it still obviously doesn't meet the definition of graffiti because it's on her own property with consent from the property owners (her parents). Dawkins should have just said it was a screw up and that the letter should be ignored. By playing it straight she makes the DOS look like a bunch of bureaucratic buffoons.

the city should be ashamed. so should that neighbor. they're meanies.

WTF..?!

This is beyond stupid..!

It's only art when rich obnoxious hipsters do it. when poor people do it, it's vandalism. and when racist people do it it's a hate crime. when rich white people do it, it's freedom of expression.

Good. These brats and their over-protective parents with a huge sense of entitlement need to be taught a lesson!

Chalkitti is disturbing. I have been told off by one of these parents as I walked down teh sidewalk to watch out for her kids artwork.

The neighbor is probably some frigid, over-the-hill, lost her chance at a family chasing her career, mean bitter whore who takes her anger at not having children of her own out on decent children on the block.

My god, it wasn't even the neighbor's property... talk about being a meanie.