How many cops does it take to deal with one vandal? When it's a Code Emo—a vandal tagging up the Pete Wentz's wall—about 12. EV Grieve has photos from the scene outside of Angels & King's last night (a bar partially owned by the Fall Out Boy), where about a dozen of New York's Finest responded to its tagged rolldown gate. Allegedly, a man in his 20s tagged the gate when an "owner/manager type from the bar came outside and ran after the tagger, who had a bicycle... he didn't get far." more ›

The BP sign that was vandalized at the gas station at Houston and Lafayette last week isn't the only one to get splattered with dark brown paint. At least half a dozen BP stations around the city have also been tagged, and the BP franchise owners feel that they're being unfairly targeted. "What are they trying to prove? They're just stupid!" Mark Sapozhnikov, manager of the BP station on Kent Ave in Brooklyn tells the Daily News. He claims it took him $1,500 and three days to clean his sign. "People need to realize that by vandalizing private businesses, they're not helping the oil spill." more ›

It was just last week that the Keith Haring memorial mural was getting buffed on Houston Street. Soon after Os Gemeos showed up to begin work on their mural, which is replacing the old Haring one. So obviously the next step is for an attention-hungry tagger to come in and vandalize the work-in-progress. One blogger reports that, "Like the Haring mural before it, Os Gemos' Houston street piece has been 'souped-up' by the locals. Not sure if the Times will be able to spin this one into a feel good tale as with the Haring 'collaboration.'" While it shouldn't be too difficult to cover up, the tag reads: "Blog about it," which people are, so looks like it'll live on digitally. [via Animal] more ›