When Graffiti GOES WRONG! 5 Ways a Graffiti Mission Can Go Wrong! 

One time just after finishing a piece a police car stopped right next to me and i ran the fastest i had in my life when i turned around they had stopped a car for a search.

Okay, my story will be cliché for most of us but with an unpredictable final. One day me and my mate decided to go on a mission in the morning. That time when most of people got to trier working places and it was still quiet on the street. The aim was on the wall near the pier in the centre of our city. The process was great - none of the elders passing by disturbing us BUT. Maybe 1 min to go, we heard the police officers coming, and we had no way to run away (bc of the location) They caught us and delivered to the office. After some time there we were free, and do you know why? Bc that stupid ass officers didn’t found whose property that was. Building that wall there was illegal, so the fact that we painted it was not a crime at all. That’s my story;)

Go out at 3:30 am lol I've only been spotted once by people who where cool af cuz who else is in an alley at 3:30 am

If your bombing a spot or trainyard, a great tip would be to plan your mission ahead ,check for cameras in the daylight ,escape routes ,which side or fence will you go in and out. I remember when i was on a freight mission ,i didnt do those things at all ,just started painting without any precautions,and than at one moment i heard a sound ,peaked my head under the train and there was a security trying to sneak up on me ,luckly he was on the other side ,when i saw him i just started running and he was chasing me and yelling . I was sure that no one saw me ,so probably the cameras.

One thing that's invaluable these days, especially for slightly higher-rent areas, is some way of checking for security cameras that are better hidden - the big beige bricks are easy to spot but nowadays they're so small they can tuck em anywhere and you wouldn't know it most of the time. Luckily, almost all of em have some insanely bright infrared LEDs on em so any camera that has night vision can spot any OTHER night vision camera just by turning off your own LEDs and looking for places that, to naked eye, are dark but on IR are lit up like a floodlight. A cheap security camera or a burner phone with the IR filter removed works, but my fave's personally a cheap Ebay spotting scope - with both eyes open you can compare between naked eye and IR a lot easier, and the resolution's better. Anyway, my graff story was painting at what's usually a chill spot at a park under a railroad bridge, it's COVERED in tags but it's also a bit of a "cornered rat" scenario cause one side of the trestle opens into thick woods in the park but the other side's an 8 foot fence ON TOP OF another 8 foot of concrete wall where 4 or 5 drainage tunnels converge, from the parking lot of a mall. I'd passed some other people just smoking weed by the entrance but someone must've smelled it and called the cops, cause they came in and I was having a serious sphincter-clenching moment as I ducked into one of the drainage tunnels that went at an angle to things. It REEKED of spray paint and they even shined their flashlights in the ENTRANCE to the drains but I was a good 50 feet down one tunnel before they looked and was running really quiet, so they somehow didn't see me and just left...

I was bombing under in a tunnel once and some random friendly guys walked by and one accidentally stumbled on one of my cans, I turned around, wearing full black, black hood and black bandana, the dude absolutely shat himself and instantly apologized even tho he’s like 2 times taller than me… just look menacing and you’ll be good tbh

A bit ago there was this one roof spot that lots of people will see because it’s central downtown, I’ve had lots of experience with roofs before and have painted lots of them. The route to get up on the roof is kind of sketchy at first you have to jump a really loud creaky gate and there was three of us so one person jumped it and opened it for the other 2, the whole time the gate was being let opened there was the loudest sound of creaking ever, keep in mind we are painting a roof right beside apartments. Anyway I’ve tried to paint this roof 2 times before this time and you have to climb some stuff then walk across this little building thing then proceed to jump a gap, while walking across the little building thing there is probably 5 different apartments on the right of you with there windows right there that you have to pass, and there’s always this one lady that’s always up, the previous 2 times she’s been there so we have left the area before she sees us, but this time her lights and stuff where still on so we tryed to walk across the building thingy before she came back into the main room where she watches tv. We made it across jumped the gap and started painting the roof, she must have heard us because a bit into painting 2 cops appear on the roof with flashlights, one of my homies strait up jumped onto a little ledge then off the ledge on to the street, me and my other homie where about to do the same but we see a cop van zoom right in the direction he was running, the cops on the roof see the paint and where actually suprised, the woman who called the cops must of thought we where stealing bikes because that’s what the officer told us, anyways a fire truck comes and uses a ladder to bring us down, when we get down, because they where responding to theft there was 9 cop cars/vans and all with lights on. Keep In mind I was only 14 so mom was not so proud😂

My first piece I've done was located under a brige in a poor hood. When I did the piece the sprays didn't work very well and after 7 minutes a taxi driver was driving on the alley in my back and stops 20 metters away, I've seen he had his phone close to his ear and it was clear, he called the police. After about 5 minutes I finished my piece but who's coming? Well the police, I droped the spray and I walked and I walked. My luck is they didn't notice I was painting on the wall so I was very lucky that day. Now, before I go to do a piece I always do a very good plan. I even remember that the date of the day, it was 27 february 2021. Anyway, very good topic to cover in a video. Keep going man!

Another pretty obvious is don't bring anything personal that might fall out your pocket. Hit a spot once and continued to other surrounding areas before later realizing my wallet fell out, was luckily able to find it but I truly forgot to not have it on me at that time

so for the doogers one the answer is bring a flicky noones messing with a shank

Not really gonna give too much info but a handful of times I’ve done the double back routine while getting chased and it’s worked amazingly! Surprised myself actually but the without saying too much, during my last sketchy mission I got ran out of a spot and came across a random “hero” type character, he see me and says “why you running boy??” I’m gasping for air trying to catch my breath and a spot light hits me! I just kept slugging along hehe!

6th way a graffiti mission can go wrong is weather, the weather can sometimes throw a wrench into your plans for example if your painting a piece and it starts to rain

some old lady came up to me and said that i am a brain dead moron for doing such things to the beutiful city. i was in a little way between two ugly buildings

I dont have the balls to do that. But I admire those who do.

Ive been lucky not to get caught or even get told on by do-gooders… when i did get caught was “crew mates” basically pointing the finger lol. As for do gooders I usually ask then what their name is and hit them up aswell lol

Great video 💯💯💯 words of wisdom....

There was already a fat tag on a garage so I thought it was fair game. I just do a quick throw and go along my way. Next thing I know some goof rolls up on me all like "you just tagged my garage" I was like "oops" and he kept following me on the phone with the cops and I tried to haul ass to my girlfriends house but just as I got to her alleyway a pig cruiser skids around the corner. Lights flashing all that. My girlfriend notices the lights and runs outside and somehow she wasn't shocked to see me standing there in cuffs. I was like "are you gonna take me in? I gotta work today." I think the cop realized it wasn't worth the paper work so he let me go. Nothing happened except maybe a misdemeanor for mischief on my record. This was like two years ago. I'm still up on that dumbass' garage.

Very underrated artist

Never admit fault to the law…

Great sharing, dear friend! Have a wonderful day!💖

I was the other day getting up and my mop tip just opened a couple of times and one of these times nearly all the ink spilled on the wall and a bit on my shoes. Honestly taping the tip is something that helps even if it sounds like overacting

i started doing graffiti and i asked my friend to come with me on my first sesh, for some reason i wanted to paint on a school, and so i did, it was 1 or 2am in the morning and we asked some kids around the school if they have any clue if there is security in the school and they said no, so we were confident that we are doing it. We choose a wall and i start painting, during the paining my friend was keeping watch the whole time and there was constantly taxis passing by, and like 2 minutes before me finishing the piece he just says COPS! and i get my can in the bag and just start running, but i fall really hard and my wallet falls out my pocket with my id and everything that would bring the police to me, but i didnt realize it at the time and i get up and keep running, 10 seconds later i realize that wallet was not there and i come back to the place i fell, and i had to turn my torch on from the phone and look for it while cops are on their way, i somehow find it and just keep running jump the gate and everything with a really injured knee, and we left the place and while looking back and we see that the cops were just rolling around and not even paying attention to us, but we did shit ourselfes really good that time. so yea thats my story

I was tagging around neighbourhood with friend and we were just chilling and tagging and than a guy starts going towards us from another block with his hands i his pockets so we started going away than we saw him taking picture of my tag (thats what we tought happend) and we went to check and he was tagging too and he was one of most famous graffiti artist in these neighbourhoods

Went bombing yesterday and wile in the middle of my peace a worker started chasing me and my homie. That’s the fastest I’ve ever ran I think because we booked it outta the train yard

that's a nice tip with the hot pack, reversal of that tip is cool your high pressure cans down to lower the pressure, i once had a night go wrong when our none writer friend started a 30 foot tall bone fire that was a wild exit!

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I remember when they did this we was in australia at the same time and i was painting that place every day and was all good,

I recently visited some friends and painted at a lost place and both of them didn't visit these often so they were SUPER paranoid. One of them said that he saw two guys in a helmet and assumed that they were cops, so we hid in an empty hall nearby, keeping an eye out. We then went back and saw two bikes near the entrance, so I came to the conclusion that it was just two kids with their bike helmets on that he saw, haha. Soon after we came across them, and they were pretty chill, said they were gonna keep watch and notify us if they see anything, since they were on a tall tower above us. Few minutes passed by, I finished my throw-up and started doing some tags, and sure enough they come down running to us saying that some workers yelled one of the guys names. So I packed my stuff again, and we wanted to hide in the same hall we did last time since we weren't sure if they were bullshitting. As soon as we heard someone yell from a distance as well we hauled ass and jumped over a wall, and there we split ways with them on the main road. I doubt they'll ever see this comment since they didn't look like taggers to me, but that's what I like about the urbex-community. Always on the lookout for each other 🤙

One time i was doing a legal wall and a Karen took pictures off me and said "im telling the cops"!

I have a kinda funny story, me and my friend decided we were gonna go out and try put up a few throws and tags. We found a spot for a throw and I went there and put up the throw. When I was almost done a random guy who had been waiting in a bush jumped out of the bush and me and my friend just ran off

Could you do a video on which spray paint works best in the cold? It'd be nice to see a comparison between some brands

Bro Sciz I have This crazy story one time I was making a tag and my mop fell😬😬‼️

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So like 2 days ago i finished a piece and literally after i packed up cops went by in a car but didnt observe me or my piece😂

I'm still fairly new to the graff scene (almost a year) but I've gotten fined already because one of my close teachers ratted me out (I think I told this story in the grog bpi vid) but I haven't been in anymore trouble. Only thing is that one of my favorite spots where I did my first ever piece and throwie, was purchased and is now private property. Still gonna paint there though, it's a 3 story abandoned building it's perfect. Another risk there though is that I live in a somewhat ghetto area and the building is claimed by a "king jay" but I'm pretty sure it's some tough guy tryna act tough and cool. And also, I'm in a small town where nothing happens, so the cops would just be so excited to arrest you because they have nothing better to do. Still though, I'm really enjoying this and I already have some style and I'm in a crew.

I remember one time I went to do a throwie and right when i finished there were 2 patrols came. I was with two of my friends, we just told them we were going to a midnight shop and everything went well

My story goes like this I was painting on the freeway one time when the police pulled up i continued to paint thinking they were just going to flash their lights and try to scare me but these were no regular cops because they ran up the hill so fast before I knew it they were probably 10 feet away from me so I booked it ran down the hill then ran across all lanes the the cop chased me to the center median strip and stoped pointing his Taser at me whilei keep running across all lanes of the freeway ran up the hill all the way down to the exit by this time i was dying from exhaustion im the distance i could see a helicopter coming so i justi rolled under a truck so i wouldnt be seen next thing you knoe the cop pulls up looking for me i just tried to stay quiet as possible almost threw. Up a couple times but in the end i got. Away sickest chase i ever been in

me and my mate went back to a parking garage that we recently painted and then security pulled up asked us who painted here yesterday and we said we didndt know he asked if we had paint on us and we said no (no shit we had paint with us) walking away one of our bags were shaking and you could hear the mixing ball he ran at us so fast but we were faster and got away and hid in some ditch. its insane how people think of graffiti writers they have such bad reputation.

One time I was city bombing alone, when a “do-Gooder” called the cops one me. It was a long time until they came but when they did, I saw the cop car in the distance. So as human instinct, I ran the hell out of there whirl the cops looked at my art I did.

one time me and the crew were doing a roll up and some guy from that naiborhood saw us pulled a knife out and started chasing us we got away but like half hour later we went back to finish it and some guys were cruising around on bikes stopped they g checked but didnt realise we were the same guys

me and my mates were out painting one night and we just finished doing a few tags on a building and a cop car pulled up so we werent to worried at this point but then another one straight away pulled up on the other side and one of my mates just legged it and over the fence he went , so i tell my mate beside me im gonna make a run for it because i had my paint dacked down my pants and knew if they searched me id be done , so i took off 1 of the cop cars starts to chase me down this drive way and first fence i see hop over it like spider man LOL and then get over another fence and chill for a second to see if they are coming over aswel , but all i hear in the dark is my name being called and im like WTF... so i call back quietly Yooo im over here and the mate i told i was gonna run followed me as soon as i ran so were both in someones back yard like WTF do we do ... and i was like we gotta keep moving theyll find us soon if we dont and they'll get the dogs my mate was freaking out so i just told him to keep quiet and when we get back to the street RUN !!! made it back to mine safely eventually

there was a "do-gooder" (piece of shit) who called the cops on me while doing a tag on a staircase going to a highway, then followed me for 30 min until the cops came. Then when i went outside a traintrack inside the woods the cops pulled up and my friend and i ran away. But we got caught because the woods were slippery and they threatened to taze me and i fell

Was out balming in mid day as a youngin', next thing I know mans there with a camera phone after I just layed a tag down, so I ran do gooder guy chases me behind a building, - had a paint can in hand and as I'm running full sprint I drop it and take a few steps back to pick it up. Wound up getting tossed in jail for the night just to have the charges dropped. Pleaded my case as an innocent person putting positive messages up of inspiration expressing my rights of freedom. They basically told me it was because i was painting a building without permission, and that public property is basically fair game. Fast forward a couple years later and I am at a different spot and after not even a minute of painting cops on bikes pull up and say they been watching me the entire time i get tossed in jail for the night again and had to plead non guilty after duty council lawyers tried to make me plea guilty, it was such a waste of my time, in and out of court for over a year. Eventually I won the case again and had my charges dropped. So I've been arrested 3 times actually there was another time that was much like the first, and still have a clean record because of being adamant that I am not a criminal and graffiti saved me from being a drug addict basically, I told them it should be legal, and until than they'll always have a problem with street artists because we have the right of expression in my country. Most times people compliment me whenever I do happen to cross paths with a pedestrian and that makes me feel good like I am meant to be doing what I love and that people do enjoy seeing art versus random profanity or just dull colourless city scapes.

I took a good yeah off after some do gooder called the cops and got the drop on me well I was painting a shipping container at a highschool it faced a fairly busy street. they were going hit me with felony vandalism because the city had record of other tags. But they let me off with a fine. I was able to convince them it was a leps of judgment. I was scared a bit tho I was arrested and detained for about 14hours and released around midnight.

I don't have many stories as I only just started, but my first experience was very interesting. so, i was with a friend that was also a beginner, and we decided to check out a chill spot that was a tunnel that backed into a national park near our houses. we went in the late afternoon, and once we got there we started, but soon we noticed that there was a smell of smoke in the air. (I'm an Aussie, so it was a concern.) We decided to investigate, only to find that the national park had caught fire, and there were a ton or police and firefighters. so we had to go to the end of the tunnel and hope that it led out another way. we ended up in another park, but this one had cameras, so we tried to look as not suspicious as possible, and quickly walked home. the fire ended up being pretty big so I'm just lucky that we abandoned the spot to investigate.

my friend and I were going on a night bombing mission we were going around just doing some tags and were just tagging the place and then we're at the end about taking mission and then we so blue lights and red lights and siren and we shot ourselves and we ran an rent it was like around the corner but we could see the lights glowing up and like the siren and we just ran as far as we could away yeah it was crazy

6:13 xD anyone else see them eye brows?!

I had went out to Alberta and as soon as I got there my thought was “get paint” I was bombing with my Fat Tip paint marker and I had a bunch of cans on me and I was doing a wall and I got about half way through and my tags “Stilly” and I got to STI so now there’s just STI on the wall 💀 and I was doing the wall then I looked around and then as I’m doing the i I hear the “woop woop” and there was a fence me and my cousin had went through a night before going to the store and i was thinking if I should open the gate or jump it, (I remembered my cousin opened it) so I smashed through it then I heard his engine start up when I got to the other side and I ran across the street then went down the alley and I see a old guy smoking a cigarette and I have my 3 holed balaclava on and then he sees the cop behind my and I hear him say “oh” 💀 and I ditched my cans in a trash can right as I hopped over the fence and I’m in this backyard and now I’m face to face with a big ass dog and I’m just hoping the own don’t come out then I hear the cop siren go on and the engine rev by and all I can think is holy fuck

Litle while ago i painted with my friend on a chill spot. Were finished with the piece then a random guy started chasing us and cursing. We GOT scared AS fuck, when he stoppes chasing us we was confused af from where he came from!?🤯🤨

NEED MORE FREIGHT VIDEOS. BEEN A MIN ❓

bro once i had to slide under a parked car to get away from the pigs without my stuff i lost about $300 that day doing a piece still to this day one of my coolest stories but they caught be on the other side of the car and i went to the station and after an hour of sitting there i ran out of the police station with all of my recovered gear

I was on a roof just messing around with my freinds and a security guard walked up there looked at us and said that someone called him beacuse a possible suicide and he just said it looked cool and walked away

One time I threw a can at a security guard who was holding my friend at the head and it was like a montana ultrawide so it kncoked him out and there was like five police cars

okay so the year is 2021 and i was into graffiti for like half a year and i wanted to do my 2nd piece under a bridge. I got to the spot and started painting next to my piece i did a few days ago. i was half way into the filling and there was quite some peaople around me some of them came by and said its nice and stuff and they went by, but i saw an older man in the distance jogging towards me but i wasnt worried and continued to do the outline and shandows. When he was like 4 meters away from me he said: Hey kid do you have anyithing else to spend your time with other than this sh*t? then he told me to pack my stuff and get out of there before he calls the cops on me... Then he walks away while throwing 2 handful of rocks on me. I got home and never told anyone about it. So yea thats my story hope you like it

Litterally yesterday some guy in a black car tried ti ran me over cose he saw me tagging a sign

Hey I just started graffiti 1 month ago and I was in school normal day I decided to do graffiti in the bathroom bad idea so I went into the bathroom and I got half a piece done I saw someone come in it was a student I was like "oh fuc" he noticed me and said "hey what are you doing" I said "uhh nothing" I was in a stall and I wasn't using spray cans just markers so I put everything in my backpack and started to wash my hands it wasn't coming off so I was like damn but I didn't think nothing of it. later on I was in period 4 decided to do it again while I was doing my tag a staff member walked in and caught me i knew I was fuc*** we went to principle office got my stuff took and got in trouble reason why I got caught is bc that same kid snitched and the staff caught me cause he told them what I looked like so moral of the story don't do graffiti/tagging in school well in the bathroom at least where no one can see only if it's ur crew. Love the videos man keep up the work!

Here in portugal u can get a 25k fine just for graffiti

if the cops already saw you doing graffiti, donn't run, just accept that you lost this day, running from cops is way too dangerous

ik im late but anyway i have a good story. i was painting a frieght train solo and everthing whent ok but when i was leaving the yard a passanger train rolloed up on the last rail before the fence blocking my path. it was like 2 am and when i trined passing in front of the parked passanger train i saw the guy writing some thing in a notebook. i had to pass infront of his train and i knew he would see me so i juste said fuck it and run in front, i think he saw me and mabey tried to call the yard workers but i juste jumed the fence and dipped

bruh one russian guy saw me do a tag and he started to hit and kick me , kinda funny.

You need a permit to paint the wall with graffiti on it

would not reccomend that rubber band shit u did w the cans when actually bombing that takes too much time to fuck with at a hotspot

The yard is like a bitch, sometimes you got to fuck the yard up and sometimes you need to leave it alone.. 🤣😭 thats how a crew in my town got busted because they bombed the yard every week sometimes 2/3 times a week

I do graffiti im not that good and don’t know much about getting caught but isn’t showing ur face sketchy