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Report by Derbyshire Rural Crime Team of graffiti on Higgar Tor. Police asking for help tracing perpetrators.

Who needs contacting for cleaning it off? Maybe it's aready been done...

On Derbyshire Rural Crime Teams Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/ruralcrimeteam

Plus other photos Higgar Tor

Not sure why you've earned a couple of dislikes.

Is Banksy one of us?

Maybe because if the police took such a dim view of all unnatural colouring of the rock then there'd be a few of our beanie wearing brethren having their collars felt  

The problem with dislikes is that if you are posting bad news, I think people dislike, because they don't like the graffiti.

'Perpetrators'? I'm surprised that there hasn't already been a rush of defenders of the right of freedom of expression of the total tools responsible for this vandalism. I mean look at what that Simon Armitage did and what about all that chalk and polish and erosion and so on etc? If I remember correctly, there was a thread not that long ago about some twonk who'd carved an 'elephant' on a grit boulder somewhere and up popped all these defenders of the 'artist'. What about prehistoric carvings? Laughable! Get it scrubbed off immediately.

Just because you can't see the artistic merit in it doesn't mean others can't.

There seems to be a spate of this shite at the moment, I've noted new scratched graffiti on crescent arete and the start of hampers hang recently. Scratching your name crudley on a rock isn't art it's being a grade A dick. I wish these people would just F*ck off. 

There is zero artistic merit in the graffiti under discussion here.

It's art - Duchamp taught us that - but it's shit art.

OK - please enlighten me as to the 'merit' (especially as the tor is a SSI and the 'artists' have damaged it)? On second thoughts - don't f*cking bother.

To be pedantic, in Duchamp's case, it was piss art:

https://sketchfetch.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/fountain.jpg

Hook, line and sinker.

Really. As an adult I could actually tell you were a bullsh1tter - glad to have made your day, boy.

Dope fiends and 'reefer madness', thats what it is...

If Hockney had painted something on the same piece of rock, I assume it would have had artistic merit solely because of his reputation.

Would that have made it more acceptable ?

UKC reaction to Armitage's Stanza Stones suggests not, but I'm not sure the general public feel the same way.

Probably some Scousers....

...on the way home from Longridge

No.

And no.

Probably disliking the graffiti. I hope so anyway. A 'dislike' doesn't make clear what they're disliking of course!

I hope it's removeable without damaging the rock.

Scratching the rock takes it to another level. At least this is removeable?? Hopefully without damage. How do you clean something like this? Lots of removal spray needed! Don't think a pressure washer would reach..........

Based on me being there about 3 weeks ago, Higgar tor seems to be a popular hang out for people who wear all white tracksuits, drive BMWs with tinted windows and think a good evening in the countryside involves Stella, Monster and some really tinny music on your phone.