Workers replace the vandalized sign. Glenn Moore/Tracy Press
The billboard was heavily tagged and covered the phone number, rendering the sign useless.
Tracy Police have made several arrests of area taggers but vandalism is still occurring throughout the city.
CN
Plus it cuts into the customer traffic to the store. Who has the time to read and sort out a messed up sign from the road?
Question is, how are the spray paint so easily accessible to these irresponsible people, the taggers?
Taggers, here, too. No city is immune to it in USA and we are beginning to look second world.
Taggers, please, spray paint your bedroom if you need to paint walls??? That way you can admire your work!!
CN
I recall an empty home at GlenBriar (it was around Christmas, I think) where a truck drove through the ACE Train parking lot, continued through the fence, and ended up in a house there at Glenbriar. That particular house faces the ACE Train Station. If that house is still empty the TPD could stake out there and watch to see who climbs up there at night.
I don't know any more than what I can recollect right now. I definitely rememeber seeing that sign grafitti'd before though and noticed the pole there. If I recall correctly at night when the last train pulled in it was lit up with a light to illuminate the sign. I remember seeing it that way after dark from the train. That was back in the winter. If that kinda indicates how long it has been going on. But I think it's been happeing even before that. I'll take another look at it later today though. Hope they catch them.
The sign is high, but you can see from the ACE Train platform that it has a ladder on the side of that pole. You can see it in the picture too. You can also see the top of the buiding from that picture. The very top. There is a fence if I remember correctly where they can climb up and scale the ladder to the top where the signage is. I remember seeing grafitti on that sign before and noticing the fence near there. I could only guess but I bet they climbed the fence and hop on the ladder to scale that signpole. Poorly planned. IMHO.
Is that the sign across the street from the ACE Train Station? Can't they just climb up that market at Tracy and Linne to access the billboard?
If so.
Why not use an existing (or install an additional) camera at the ACE Train Station and catch them red handed?