I’m finding these stickers around town. The url is www. tightrope. cc
This is not okay.
If you want to take them down only do so with another object (something you can scrape it away with). Do not use your bare hands. There have been cases in the past of sickos putting razor blades and sharp objects behind posters and stickers like this to hurt whoever tries to take them down. I’m sorry you had to see this garbage. Stay safe out there.
Bothers me this only has 5 notes. A saw two more at the fucking school I teach at.
reblogging for the PSA about removal methods
If you can, hair dryers work pretty well. They melt the glue and you can scrape them off easier. Same with steam.
y’all need to get yourselves a putty knife because these posts say “DON’T USE YOUR HANDS” and then they never tell you exactly what to use instead
putty knives look like this:
and come in various widths, but for this purpose you only need something that’s about an inch or an inch and a half wide and metal, not plastic, because plastic is too flimsy for dealing with stickers and razor blades
you can get them at the home depot or other hardware stores for as low as $1.50 to about $7.00 for a fancypants one
to make the scraping easier, some sort of oil-based lubrication is needed, but keeping a bottle of mineral oil in your bag could spell disaster for what else is in there, so a tube of chapstick is fine.
smear chapstick all over the blade of the knife and carefully get to scraping the sticker off with it and yeah. be careful.
other tips:
you may also want to invest in a pair of leather or nylon/nitrile work gloves to afford your hands extra protection and grip if you feel like you need it (the nylon/nitrile ones may be particularly useful for disabled individuals who need a lil more dexterity – u gotta get the right size tho)
keep the gloves, putty knife, and chapstick in a gallon ziploc bag with some paper towels, alcohol prep pads, and bandaids if an accident does happen
store the knife with its blade wrapped in paper towel for safety – they’re not particularly sharp but caution is always good
and keep an empty altoids tin with you to store any blades you may find under the stickers until you find an adequate disposal area
anyways
y’all need putty knives
If you have the time, make a note of the locations the stickers show up in, and be careful not to commit to a noticable routine sweep pattern. Counterforce is most likely to be deployed if you’re obviously committing to a routine, and you may want to mix up your patterns (observe, return later; observe, intervene; observe, report for others to intervene).
Be careful, and be mindfuil of your surroundings if you find yourself having to commit to removing a sticker at the possible sacrifice of situational awareness. Stay alert, fuck their shit up, but always be ready to leave in a hurry.
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