stork38 t1_j0zhcvr wrote
Chalk on the sidewalk = vandalism?
mowotlarx OP t1_j0zhl3y wrote
This is the second comment I've seen suggesting that hate speech and slurs on your home or workplace don't count if they're written in chalk. That's a new one.
stork38 t1_j0zkl4g wrote
I mean, it's not cool...but using the word vandalism is misleading if the damage can be undone by rain
mowotlarx OP t1_j0zl5pc wrote
If someone smears shit on your doorstep because they don't like that you're gay or black or any other protected category, is that OK because it can just be washed away?
This is an awful big reach to excuse people showing up to someone's house in the dark of night, attempting to break in, assaulting his neighbors and writing hate speech targeting him outside his home.
stork38 t1_j0zmg25 wrote
> is that OK because it can just be washed away?
Try reading my comment a little slower next time
mowotlarx OP t1_j0znecm wrote
I read exactly what you wrote. You posed that if hate speech can be "washed away with rain" , then it's somehow not vandalism and not a criminal act. Vandalism doesn't need to be destruction, it can also be defacing.
stork38 t1_j0zy0p0 wrote
mowotlarx OP t1_j101iry wrote
The legal definition of vandalism includes defacing. It includes things that require cleaning as well as repair.
stork38 t1_j107xin wrote
There is no such law on the New York books called vandalism. There is a law called criminal mischief though, and it requires actual damage. If you're going to lock whoever wrote this, you'll also have to lock up little kids who play hopscotch by your twisted logic.
mowotlarx OP t1_j10b9q6 wrote
You think writing hate speech and slurs outside the home of a gay politician is the same as kids drawing a hop scotch game?
huebomont t1_j0zigqf wrote
i see we have one of the pedocons here to speak for themselves!
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