{"id":3785,"date":"2016-07-14T11:49:10","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T06:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3785"},"modified":"2026-07-17T20:43:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:13:46","slug":"my-years-as-a-teenage-graffiti-vandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=3785","title":{"rendered":"My Life as a Juvenile Graffiti Vandal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"dropcap\">B<\/span><\/p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">aba Siddiqui, the Congress MLA from Bandra, regarded my two friends and me with an unreadable expression from the couch of his lavish living room in a sprawling apartment. The year was 2007, and teenaged stupidity had brought Jonathan, Shrey, and me to the house of an influential local politician to face the music. We used to be called \u201cthe J-Boyz\u201d, and vandalising private property was to us what routinely redefining the definition of bad taste is to Rakhi Sawant. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That is, until we were recorded tagging Siddiqui\u2019s ministerial Ambassador with our spray-paint cans by his own security cameras. The J-Boyz\u2019 days of merry \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/mumbai\/Juhus-rowdy-boys-defaced-MLAs-car\/articleshow\/1749922.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">and fairly high-profile<\/a> \u2013 mischief were numbered.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019ll make a leap here, but prior to 2007, vigilante vandalism and graffiti gangs were\u2026 let\u2019s say, not a fad in India yet. But things changed for the worse one late night in August 2006, when Shrey decided to carry along a spray can and excitedly tagged his name on the footpath. And instead of scolding our friend for desecrating Juhu\u2019s pristine footpaths with his vile aerosol can, I was overwhelmed at the prospect of finally getting to live out my childhood fantasy of being a graffiti vandal, like the ones I\u2019d read about operating in Europe. I felt a surge of excitement at the mere thought \u2013 also, I was 15. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The next thing I knew, it was 3 am, and the three of us were standing outside the apartment building of a tuition teacher with a reputation for getting a little too friendly with our female pals. In our minds, ol\u2019 Prof CJ McToucherson deserved a dose of vigilante justice. This, to us, involved tagging his beige Innova with the choicest Hindi gaalis, a couple of \u201cCJ Suxs\u201d, and a huge \u201cJ-Boyz\u201d tag on the hood before speeding away into the night.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was official, we were vandals. And I loved it. We spent the next few months fervently tagging school buses, private walls, and even some empty billboards with \u201cJ-Boyz\u201d. We even graffiti\u2019d an entire gate outside one of our college\u2019s popular eateries. Word had begun to spread around campus about us, and honestly, the adulation was somewhat flattering. More people joined us on graffiti runs, turning our once-clandestine cabal into a full-fledged vandal menace, with over 20 guys involved. Tagging CJ\u2019s car had made us campus rockstars overnight.<\/span>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42591 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1544097859.png\" alt=\"J_BOYZ\" width=\"464\" height=\"407\" \/>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first wake-up call should have been the late night phone call from Juhu police station. The cops had picked up 38 boys from Jamnabai Circle, a favourite tagging spot for the growing tribe of J-Boyz. The detained boys sang like canaries once they were in the holding cell, and our identities as the ringleaders were revealed. On account of us being college students at the time, the cops were willing to let us off with a warning. \u201cAbhi se aisa kaand kiya toh andar kar denge. Tum log bache ho, padhaai pe dhyaan do,\u201d said a cop as he walked us out of the station.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A sane person \u2013 or really, anyone who was friggin\u2019 15 \u2013 would have stopped at this point. But it\u2019s easier to divide by zero than find a rational teenager. We wanted to have ourselves one last hurrah. A vigilante coup de gr\u00e2ce, if you will. Our final big fish? The then-Minister of State for Food and Civil Supplies, Baba Siddiqui. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Big, big mistake. On that night, as we gleefully vandalised Mr Siddiqui\u2019s official government-issued Ambassador, his CCTV camera caught us red handed.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An article in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The New Yorker<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> titled \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2015\/08\/31\/the-terrible-teens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why Teen-Agers are the Worst<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d quotes neurologist and author Frances Jensen, who tells us that \u201cteens are not quite firing on all cylinders when it comes to the frontal lobes. Thus, we shouldn\u2019t be surprised by the daily stories we hear and read about tragic mistakes.\u201d Hear that, mom? Don\u2019t blame your son for becoming a graffiti vandal, blame his underdeveloped brain. Mine was unable to comprehend the message the police tried to convey the first time I was called to the station.<\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">The complainants against us included everyone from Priya Dutt to our tuition teacher, and the bill for damages ran into crores.<\/blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now that Siddiqui had video proof of our delinquency, the kid-gloves were coming off. A constable arrived at each of our houses to take us down to the station, where we were interrogated for hours by a conveyor belt of inspectors. They showed us the \u201cSatya Bol Patta\u201d or \u201cBelt of Truth\u201d, made famous by Katekar in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sacred Games<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Thankfully, the cops spared us the Katekar treatment. Instead, they slapped us with the projected cost of property damages we had racked up in our exploits as the J-Boyz. The complainants against us included everyone from Priya Dutt to our tuition teacher, and the bill for damages ran into crores.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While we thought that the police station was the worst of it, the worst of our arduous tryst with the law came when the press found out. Equipped with sensational headlines like \u201cThe Notorious J-Boyz Finally Apprehended!\u201d, the media, in many ways, was <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/youthcurry.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/curious-case-of-j-boyz.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">less sensitive with us than the police<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. For their part, the police were sensitive to the fact that we were minors, and in the end they managed to convince the complainants to retract their charges, while our parents were made to sign a bond of \u20b950 stating that if we ever did something like this again, Mumbai Police would make sure we were tried as adults.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But we weren\u2019t out of the woods yet. A couple of weeks after the incident, we received the summons we had been dreading. Baba Siddiqui wanted to talk to us in person. In the elevator up to his apartment, my head was spinning with rumours of politicians with underworld links, and I was afraid that there was a real possibility I might \u201cdisappear\u201d that night. That\u2019s how we ended up standing sheepishly across the room from a state minister, while he expertly stretched the silence so that our minds would leap to the worst case scenario.<\/span>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42592 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1544097878.png\" alt=\"Mend\" width=\"596\" height=\"407\" \/>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then, relief. He sat us down and told us stories of how he used to be the naughtiest boy in Bandra at one point and that in a weird way, he was proud of the gusto we\u2019d shown. \u201cBeta log,\u201d he said, \u201crebellion is good. But only if channeled in the right direction.\u201d<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks, Mr Siddiqui, but my stint as one of the J-Boyz gave me <a href=\"http:\/\/mumbaivotes.com\/articles\/3593\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my fill of rebellion<\/a>. I think a more accurate assessment of my character came from one of the senior inspectors who interrogated us after we tagged Siddiqui\u2019s car. He argued that getting a taste of the wrong side of the law early on leads to most juvenile delinquents becoming model citizens in the future. \u201cAbhi ya toh tum log aadarsh nagrik banega ya toh Don,\u201d he laughed. He was right. 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