Six-year-old girl facing $300 fine for drawing on the sidewalk with chalk
After neighbours complained about the above 6-year-old Park Slope girl drawing a pretty picture with common sidewalk chalk of her parents own front stoop. She is now presented a $300 fine by the city of Brooklyn. The Sanitation Department warning letter read: “Please remove the graffiti from your property. Failure to comply may result in enforcement action against you.”
Does that sound unreal to you as well? How on Earth could a kid’s chalk drawing be best decribed as “graffiti”? It actaully washes away after the next rainfall will hit the city. Still, City Council passed local law 111 in 2005, which defined “graffiti” as the following description: “any letter, word, name, number, symbol, slogan, message, drawing, picture, writing … that is drawn, painted, chiseled, scratched, or etched on a commercial building or residential building.”
“He could have just asked!” mom said. “This whole thing is ridiculous. Admittedly, this drawing was not her best work — she usually sticks to cheerful scenes, not abstracts, frankly — but to send a warning letter like that is outrageous.” And funny.
Photo taken by brooklynpaper.com.
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