Borf

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

http://www.alex.to/cityscapes

[Bartelby]

I'm looking for Borf:  I have a crush on him.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

me too!

[mustourdman]

I thought it was cute enough when he stuck to tagging sidewalks, street lights, and the like, but now he's moved on to hitting commercial properties and houses in Shaw and it's getting a bit old.
 
 Oh well, still better than seeing someone's unreadable initials or the poorly thought-out political statements of someone who thought the neighborhood was better when it was a crack-infested slum.

[jkeisenh]

word on the street is that borf was arrested last week-- he was a high school aged boy and they're hitting him with trumped up felony destruction of property charges.  but that's just what i heard.

[twelsh737]

http://www.woostercollective.com/2005/02/seen-on-wooster-street-in-new-york.html
 
 
 No news here but you can look a one of Borf's better   works. (IMO)

[poorlulu]

the top one (the one of the kid with the spray can) is on 18th street too.
 
 i figuered it was borf.....it's kinda cool

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

This is one explanation of Borf from DCist.com.  I don't know if it's true or an urban legend, but it's kind of cool in a poignant way.
 
   

I heard BORF is just some traveler kid that drifts around the east coast. They say he faked his death to get away from all the bullshit he had to put up with like school and work and all that, and now hes just putting up his face everywhere he goes to let people know heâ??s still alive. I donâ??t know if thatâ??s true, but a friend of mine saw him putting up a sticker in adams morgan and talked to him about it. She said thatâ??s what he told her. She also said he was the craziest kid sheâ??d ever met!

[Bartelby]

Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
  word on the street is that borf was arrested last week-- he was a high school aged boy and they're hitting him with trumped up felony destruction of property charges.  but that's just what i heard.

They'll probably charge him under the Patriot's Act for terrorist activities; and ship him out somewhere for life...being such a hardened criminal and all.  Where do I send money for his defense fund?..and why are the good ones either married or underage?

[ggw]

The truth will be much duller.  
 
 It'll turn out to be three kids from St. Albans or Sidwell Friends cruising around in a BMW X5.  The New York and Boston tags will coincide with trips they took to interview at Columbia or attend a summer session at Tufts.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  The truth will be much duller.  
 
 It'll turn out to be three kids from St. Albans or Sidwell Friends cruising around in a BMW X5.  The New York and Boston tags will coincide with trips they took to interview at Columbia or attend a summer session at Tufts.

nah... if that were true they would've stuck to ghetto-style tagging or "Anarchy" signs.

[ggw]

Originally posted by HERR DOKTOR-DOOM:
   

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  The truth will be much duller.  
 
 It'll turn out to be three kids from St. Albans or Sidwell Friends cruising around in a BMW X5.  The New York and Boston tags will coincide with trips they took to interview at Columbia or attend a summer session at Tufts.

nah... if that were true they would've stuck to ghetto-style tagging or "Anarchy" signs. [/b]

I wasn't far off:
 
 http://www.dcist.com/archives/2005/07/13/borf_--_arrested.php

[Bartelby]

Please, say it isn't so.  They'll take away the pass to his gated community in Great Falls for sure. I still love him.  Maybe he can come live with me in the poor neighborhood.

[jkeisenh]

at this point, there are enough hoodlums claiming to be borf, that the real borf has good cover.

[hostiledm]

"I thought what I would do was pretend I'm one of those deaf mutes"