THE LOST AND FOUND

I’m a bit late on this and I hear the good folks behind ICBC’s Bait Car program re-applied their stencil after this happened, but this is cool to see nonetheless. [Update: As of March 1st the Bait Car stencil is still gone and in its place is a stencil of 2 small black hearts] Although I can’t confirm with complete certainty that The Dark did this, I’m 95% sure.

To summarize, basically there’s a parking lot near Stadium station where they put this Banksy imitation up to intimidate car thieves, and a local “street” artist called The Dark decided to go over it. Not because he supports car theft obviously - here’s a brief explanation he provided:

”The Vancouver Police Department has been using graffiti inspired stencils in a fear-mongering campaign against car theft. Given the aggressive graffiti paint out program run by the City and the VPD it seemed like a bit of a contradiction to use “crime” (graffiti) to fight crime. The only thing left was to follow their outstanding example.” - The Dark

Some of The Dark’s work for those who aren’t familiar:

Big thanks to Jenn Chang for the heads up on this story!
Stay tuned, more info coming soon.