Prague graffiti

Prague is a beautiful city, no doubt, beautiful old buildings, the river meandering through and the bridges across the river - it was however spoilt by the graffiti scralled across walls, lightposts, trams and buildings.

What amazed me was the lack of desire and inability displayed by the Czech authorities to curb such flagrant and wanton vandalism. It was like they had just given up allowing the punks to rule the city, over-runing decent families with their hooliganism, aggression and anti-social behaviour. The city had parks in disrepair, weeds throughout, uncut grass adding to the state of hopelessness and despair.

What could be a beautiful city full of hope and confidence is declining into a cesspit of apathy and dejecture. There was abject homelessness, people foraging through rubbish bins for food and beggars at every major attraction. When you looked into their eyes, there was not only resignation, there was a glazed dull look of total defeat.
Why not organise such people into teams to scrub and wash graffiti from the walls, repaint if necessary, tend to the weeds, mow the lawns and clean the city up, give them a small payment and get the place moving again.