He claims he repeatedly tried to speak to the council about organising the event but was ignored.
the event raised about £900 for Cancer Research
The town council posted a statement on its website, criticising the organisers for hosting the unapproved event in a public open space
the town council said it had removed the graffiti the next day because some of it was offensive.
they decided to paint over our total amount raised while leaving every other piece of actual graffiti untouched.
Translation? Some kids at the local skate park did a lovely thing for charity and the absolute twats at the local council took offence that anyone would dare do anything nice in their little fiefdom without their permission - which they didn’t even legally need, by the way - and out of spite, they destroyed the graffiti which celebrated the charitable efforts of those involved.
It actually looks like in the photo that one of the town councillors, Cllr Matthew Bennie, is painting over the graffiti personally. He’s the councillor for the ward where the event happened. I imagine he is deeply affronted by this. What an absolutely fucking disgraceful display of completely childish and behaviour. Councillor Bennie should be forced to resign in disgrace.
https://www.northhykehamtowncouncil.gov.uk/Town_Councillors.aspx
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Skateboarders have said “it’s a shame” that graffiti celebrating the amount of money they raised for charity was removed by the town council.
Chris Cheevers organised a charity event at the Fen Lane playing fields skatepark in North Hykeham, Lincoln.
North Hykeham Town Council (NHTC) also said the group had not been granted permission to hold the event.
"So when we painted the total amount raised on the top of the ramps in order to leave our mark and show how proud we were of what we had achieved, we did not see this as vandalism and we certainly did not see it as offensive.
"I have heard rumours since that some rude words were written somewhere on the floor, but it was done in kids’ chalk that washes away with rain so, technically and legally, it isn’t even graffiti.
“The council can only apologise to all other users of the area who observed the offensive graffiti that was left on the skatepark by some of those who had attended that event.”
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"Being a public skatepark, there is quite a lot of graffiti all over the place. It is to be expected and in most places, it is actually encouraged.
Graffiti is 90% of the time an eyesore. Yeah 10% of the time it looks amazing, but most of the time it’s just stupid tags and offensive words.
"I have heard rumours since that some rude words were written somewhere on the floor, but it was done in kids’ chalk that washes away with rain so, technically and legally, it isn’t even graffiti.
If you didn’t even know the slurs were there, how do you know it was done in kids’ chalk? Wishful thinking?
