Driving around Houston I've noticed the word "Goat" graffitied in many locations. Anyone know what this means or stands for?

Yeah, I am pretty sure it's on the chronicle sign at the 59 / 610 exchange.

http://www.khou.com/news/GOAT-Graffiti-158274225.html

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HOUSTON—It seems parts of Houston have gone to the “goat” these days, now that the strange moniker has popped up all over down.
“Goat” has been painted onto signs, light poles and buildings along Washington Avenue and throughout much of the Montrose neighborhood.

Business owners and residents started to notice the graffiti a few weeks ago and have been working overtime to clean things up.

“It’s a real pain in the backside,” said Barbara Blankenship, the owner of the Blue Moose Lodge on Washington Avenue. “It costs a fortune to clean things up.”

It remains unclear how many people are responsible for the vandalism. The head of the mayor’s Anti-Gang Taskforce believes the graffiti has nothing to do with gangs, and suggested that it’s likely the work of a tagger with an enormous ego. Recently, the rapper Eminem released a song called “G.O.A.T”, that says the acronym stands for the “greatest of all time.”
Painting over the graffiti remains the responsibility of the private property owners, although the city does offer assistance to victims who request the help.

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http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2012/06/goat_graffiti_takes_over.php

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In case you haven't noticed the latest menace haunting Houston's streets, someone keeps spray-painting the word "goat" on stuff along Washington Avenue and in a couple other areas around the city. This week they hit Kung Foo Saloon and the corner store by Blue Moose.
This is annoying for a lot of reasons. First, it's covering a lot more area than normal tags. City workers are running all over town trying to wash off the paint and keep Houston in (relatively) clean condition, although they don't help out with vandalized private property.

Second, it's not good. Unlike the warped, out-of-another-universe graffiti on Elgin and Crawford, this goat stuff looks like mindlessly lazy work. Marco Torres, a photographer who knows the graffiti scene, used the word "toy," which Urban Dictionary defines as "a graffiti artist's term for a novice," as in "that ****in' toy threw up some ****ty tag all over my graf."

But Gregory J. Snyder, a professor of sociology at CUNY who studies graffiti and graffiti writing, said he saw some potential in one of the goat tags. No need to crush the tagger's artistic aspirations, I guess, just direct him to the nearest canvas and away from other people's property.

"I'm a big fan of the arts. But I don't want people to use my building. I'd appreciate it," said Virgil Cox, who's dealt with his share of vandalism as the owner of Cox Hardware.

Back in 2000, LL Cool J came out with an album called "G.O.A.T.," which stands for "Greatest of All Time." No one knows if that's what the tagger means, or if it's just a name he picked up, though everyone I talked to agreed it isn't gang-related.

Taggers like this usually don't get caught by police, and the four-letter word allows whoever it is to finish the strokes quickly. The best the city can do is paint over the tags fast and remove the fame aspect that taggers look for.

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im gonna go start tagging a hickory stick next to them all.

Maybe it's a reference to a Cake song.

http://texags.com/main/forum.reply.asp?forum_id=38&topic_id=2088392&message_id=31341678&hi=1#r31341678

Adam Sandler must be responsible.

I'll go ahead and say it first. If someone is caught tagging my casa they will be shot dead on the spot.

And here come the too severe of a punishment comments in 3, 2, 1....

I noticed the flyover from 59S heading north onto 610 has a GOAT tag on the speedlimit sign hanging out off the side.

Big balls.

On 290 heading outbound close to the red onion, gold cup, and one of the HOV exits there is a massive red "GOAT" tag underneath the overpass of the HOV exit. You cant miss it. Everytime it gets removed it is back 2 days later. I have actually noticed in other places too but this one is the most artful one, if you can call it that.

They got 45 inbound from the woodlands about 15 times over the freeway

haven't seen goat, but there are several AGUAs on the side of buildings along 45 north.

His/her/their ability to cover such a large perimeter is impressive. Can't even hate.

Could have sworn he tagged the back of that retail center currently in construction on Heights Blvd. in between Washington and I-10 a while back. Covered up the entire back wall of one of the spaces. Don't even know how that was possible. Obviously a ladder must have been involved but the dude has balls the size of church bells.

"Goat" is just some dipsheet with paint and stencils.

I thought for sure this thread was going to be about the Picasso that was vandalized.

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I thought for sure this thread was going to be about the Picasso that was vandalized.

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I saw this on the national news the other night and thought they said Houston. However, I never saw anything about it on KTRK (only local station I watch) and figured it must have been Boston or some other city that ends is "-ston."

Just googled and realized this was at the Menil. Did I totally miss a blitz of news coverage or was this not really talked about on local stations and/or the Chronicle?

it was on the chron website i believe.

I saw it on 13 a couple nights ago.

Then I am an idiot and zoned out during the news and chron.com report. Par for the course.

It was on NPR too.

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They got 45 inbound from the woodlands about 15 times over the freeway

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I see this every morning. It says "GOAT GOAT GOAT GOAT" written in all black, sloppy capital letter. I think it's one of the HOV overpasses, but I'm not certain. I'd been wondering about it for several days. I didn't know it was in other places, too.

I put Graffiti "artists" on the same level with common thieves...shoot em all

I agree, this guy has balls. But the 9/11 hijackers also had balls. Kill em all and let God sort em out.

So is it one person or several? Or perhaps copycats? Some of them are pretty poorly drawn, while a few are, as someone mentioned, "artful."

In regards to the Picasso painting, I feel like the whole thing was a staged publicity stunt. If I'm in an art museum and happen to see some POS spray paint a painting, the last thing I'm going to do is bust out the camera phone, walk to the painting, zoom in, and make sure everyone can read what was spray painted. I'm going to go and try to stop the guy or get security.

Here's the best example of graffiti I've seen in the Tine thus far (took this at the corner of Dunlavy and Westheimer:



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I work in the 3rd ward and spend a lot of my day around town I. Different ghetto parts calling on customers, so I have a pretty good feel for some of the scummier parts of Houston. I live off Washington Ave. the only places I know I have seen the 'GOAT' graffiti is along Washington, the Montrose area, and Downtown. I have not seen it once in any of the ghetto parts I go to. This makes me believe as the reports state that it is not gang related, and makes me feel like it is a hipster type of promotion of some kind. If I owned any of the businesses by my house that keep getting hit, I would be royally pissed.

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If I owned any of the businesses by my house that keep getting hit, I would be royally pissed.

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I'd paint over it with a nice fresh coat, then set up shop on the roof or in the bushes waiting for the idiot to strike again, then I would paint my fresh wall with blood splatter.

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I'd paint over it with a nice fresh coat, then set up shop on the roof or in the bushes waiting for the idiot to strike again, then I would paint my fresh wall with blood splatter.

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I cant see how they cant catch the guy/guys/gal/gals/etc with a similar tactic. They say he sprays under the overpasses on the highway, then the city paints over them, and its back up within 2 days. Maybe they should paint over it, then have someone sit and watch for a couple of nights after they clean it to see if the perps coem back. I would be in complete favor of using tax money to pay a guy overtime to do that.

If it truly is some emo hipster kid promoting his band or some crap, I doubt he is all that stealthy or dangerous. How no one has been caught in the act with the amount of stuff that has been hit is crazy.

i just saw one for the first time yesterday at the convenient store next to blue moose

How many of you that are celebrating killing taggers in the street profess to be Christian?

If you count yourself as one, how do you justify celebrating the death of somebody because they were spray painting a building?

Forgive me for thinking this more of a tragedy than reason to celebrate.

I know that many of us do stupid things in our younger days. I believe in 2nd chances. There are many good people who at one time that painted up something but later reformed their lives. This person won't get that chance. Instead a bunch of strangers are chest bumping one another on an internet board celebrating their death. I ask about Christians here because Christians SHOULD believe in repentance and forgiveness.

I am pro-life and I believe that people can make bad choices and repent. If you are a Christian, as you claim, than you'll recognize that this is a major theme repeated over and over again in the gospels. The gospels do not portray a wild west attitude where grafitti guys are crucified (literally) and everybody cheers.

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I'd paint over it with a nice fresh coat, then set up shop on the roof or in the bushes waiting for Gipper, then I would paint my fresh wall with blood splatter.

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FIFY

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And here come the too severe of a punishment comments in 3, 2, 1....

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And it only took one day but here we go:

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How many of you that are celebrating killing taggers in the street profess to be Christian?

If you count yourself as one, how do you justify celebrating the death of somebody because they were spray painting a building?

Forgive me for thinking this more of a tragedy than reason to celebrate.

I know that many of us do stupid things in our younger days. I believe in 2nd chances. There are many good people who at one time that painted up something but later reformed their lives. This person won't get that chance. Instead a bunch of strangers are chest bumping one another on an internet board celebrating their death. I ask about Christians here because Christians SHOULD believe in repentance and forgiveness.

I am pro-life and I believe that people can make bad choices and repent. If you are a Christian, as you claim, than you'll recognize that this is a major theme repeated over and over again in the gospels. The gospels do not portray a wild west attitude where grafitti guys are crucified (literally) and everybody cheers.

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hold on my popcorn is almost ready