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Tuesday, 6th January, 2009

Published: Friday, 19th September, 2008 16:30

TPK graffiti artists hunted

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'THOSE pesky kids' are thought to be behind graffiti plaguing Reading and Woodley.

Police have had 59 reports of the tag 'TPK’ springing up this year.

PC Katy Lucas, who is investigating the taggings, said: “This tag has appeared in large numbers, mainly in east Reading. However, there have also been reports in Oxford Road, and Winnersh and Woodley in the Wokingham police area.

“I am hopeful that someone will recognise the tag. Teachers and parents may have seen this scribbled across exercise books or pencil cases and I would encourage anyone with any information to contact me urgently.

“Tags can really affect the appearance of an area and it is important that we catch those who are responsible for this blight.”

She said TPK is thought to stand for 'those pesky kids’.

Anyone with information should contact PC Lucas via 0845 8 505 505 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

*The TPK tag has appeared in Donnington Road, London Road, Alexandra Road, Erleigh Road, Mount Pleasant, Basingstoke Road, Silver Street, Brayford Road, The Butts, Oxford Road, Broomfield Road, King’s Road, Wokingham Road, Reading University’s Whiteknights campus, Christchurch Road (all Reading), Crockhamwell Road (Woodley), Arbour Lane and Woodward Close in Winnersh, and Old Forest Road (Wokingham).

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robert smith

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Sep 23 08 15:59

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i think i saw some pesky kids heading down down a dark alley with some hoodeys on, i hope this helps in your quest tofind these hooligans. we need to preserve the white walls and clean electricity boxes so that our future generations can learn to be as bland and as boring as they are. yours sincerely mary poppins

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Sep 23 08 16:50

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I think, Personally that some of there stuff is quite nice, But I mean the big pieces not just the little tags... Thats my personal thoughts anyway...

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bob

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Sep 24 08 20:13

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my personal thoughts are i think the big pieces are art but the little tags are scruffy tpk is well known all over reading in the young community with plenty of writers it will take a long time to find them all

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temoe

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Sep 29 08 23:09

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yeh the small things arent art but the big things are cos i like the preety colours, thats my personal opinion\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nno its not, every1 has that opinion ^\r\nif u look past the scribbly lines you\'ll realise that good tags take alot of skill, knowledge, effort and practise\r\nyou\'ve trained urself to see \"a scribbly line\"

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john

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Oct 13 08 05:01

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i agree, TPK are artists. I hope you dont catch them, or if you do, do the right thing and allow them carry on painting legal areas and commissioned walls. I will miss seeing their artwork around if they're gone.

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Nov 4 08 14:07

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the police aint never gonna catch TPK !!!!!!!\r\nso stop trying

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Tdott

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Nov 4 08 14:11

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tpk has loads of people in so you feds wont catch all of them

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Tdott

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stopp cleaning up graffitti its all art unless the people are s**t

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jim bob

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Nov 6 08 07:26

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there 2 many people in tpk so tryin let it be wat it is

u f**ls

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Louis

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Nov 6 08 14:04

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There are over 100 People in Reading ALONE, Tagging TPK, GoodLuck finding them

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STAX

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Dec 4 08 13:27

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most of it is good art.don\'t like the little tags much thou.i have many pics on my phone.goodluck to them.TPK 4 LIFE!!!!

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Dec 20 08 16:07

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Pencil cases and school books?? HA. You think these people are youths? Think again. There are way too many people in TPK to catch, and the original members are too smart. These guys are artists. Take a look at the pieces they paint- not the little tags scrawled on alley walls- the huge, beautiful pieces of art hidden around this very town.

Alot of people have no idea how much skill, patience and years of learning it takes to do what these artists do. To me graffiti brightens up my daily journeys, free art on the way to work? Yes please.

THE PEOPLE KNOW.

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jason velentinocomprendonitologothoning

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Dec 23 08 23:05

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well then gool luck with that conquest.

yours sincerly jason velentinocomprendonitologothoning

p.s your not gonna make any progress.

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