About...lesse, three years ago, I was living in Richmond California (really nasty area) with a roommate who was into "Anime" - also known as "Japanamation". Think "adult cartoons", in some cases VERY adult.
Our apartment building gets a major infestation of drug dealers. This wasn't uncommon, but this outbreak was particularly bad - the morons fired up a meth lab in the basement and then put a giant complex mural of a gang tag out front, about 3ft x 4ft that translated to "coke/pot/heroin sold here" in Spanish
.
So I decided I needed a nice multicultural "get lost" symbol.
Well, back to said roommate's taste in videos - one cover had exactly what I needed:
http://www.geocities.com/etmassey/Harlock.htm - it's on Geocities so I can't link to the pic.
Perfect. So at 2:00am, I'm out front of the building with a can of black engine paint, about to do a post-modern (supposedly 30th Century in fact) Jolly Rodger all over this damn tag
. (To keep it on-topic - yes, I had a 38snubbie in my pocket. I may be crazy, but I ain't stupid.)
As you can see, the actual skull'n'crossbones symbol used was pretty simple. And I *still* needed to carry one of my roommie's video covers out to have something to work off of...my drawing skills seriously suck.
(The next morning, said roommie looked at me funny, and asked if we'd been visited by Harlock the Space Pirate
. But it worked - the dealers split the next day, apparantly they realized they'd pushed the locals a wee bit too far. And a few days later, I was leaving the building and a couple of cops had stopped and were laughing their butts off while pointing to my "art".)
Point is...you know when the "tunes" go off when this moron is asleep. A skull'n'bones all over this idiot's front door would be a really nice "public service message" to his customers. Cut into his business, he'll boogie.
