Taggers Hit Upper Valley Neighborhood

The words are clearly written in blue paint over a gray cobblestone wall. "Move to Juarez" is on one side. "Loud music sucks" is on the other. It's enough to make one man cringe.

"It makes me sick to think we have people around here that would do this."

Tom Brown lives across the street from the tagged property. He says his neighbor had a Halloween party on Friday with a haunted house and music. So Tom took his son over to see what the racket was.

"Once you're on the premises you could hear it but it wasn't so loud it was not tolerable."

Apparently the taggers didn't agree. The following morning, Tom's neighbor found the wall and three wooden gates outside his property laced with graffiti. Tom tells us he feels bad for his neighbor, who has spent a lot of money fixing the place up in the two years he's lived there.

"It's beautiful. It's made our entire neighborhood a much better place to live, and this is what he gets?"

Brown says it's bad enough somebody would graffiti a wall in his neighborhood, but what's worse is the message they were trying to send.

"There's just no reason for vulgar language or anything of that nature to go on around here."

For Tom, there isn't much he or anyone else can do in the neighborhood...except be on the lookout for any more suspicious activity.

"If we catch them then we're gonna turn them in. That's the best we can do."

We're told a city crew will clean up the graffiti in the next few days.