Is “Mexican Dope Warning” The New “Andre The Giant Has A Posse?”
The first time we noticed it, we thought it was an isolated incident. But in the last week or two, the Mexican Dope Warning flyers have gone, in the graffiti parlance, all-city. Readers started sending in more and more camera-phone pics, and we’ve even noticed the things here in Fishtown, which would seem to be the last place one would encounter Mexican dope, and if you did, you’d likely be encouraged to take it. (Click to enlarge.) Nevertheless, we’re taking it seriously. So if you will, one more time, let us examine and transcribe the full text:
DOCTORS WARNING: ALL DOPE FROM MEXICO IS POISON. ALL DOPE MUST BE IN A REFRIGERATOR OR DOPE TURNS TO DEADLY POISON. PLEASE SEND LETTERS TO THE PRESIDENT OF MEXICO BEG HIM TO STOP. YOU WILL GET SIDE EFFECTS AND DIE AND EVEN DIE RIGHT AWAY LIKE JOHN BELUSHI DIED. AND GAY PEOPLE WILL GIVE YOU SPHYLLIS OF THE BRAIN. AND RABIES AND LUKEMIA, RABIES YOU DIE A CRAZY MAD DOG. YOU WILL DESTROY YOUR FAMILY TREE STAY AWAY FROM GAYS RATS AND BAD MEN THAT SELL DOPE.
Perhaps it is telling us something about something.
Update: Click through to the comments as serlingrod explains it all. Or as much as anyone seems to know.
July 22nd, 2008 at 10:59 am
Interesting. I haven’t seen those. I’ve seen the “You must listen to Christian radio at 56 am,” as well as black men marrying white women will burn in hell. The fact that they’re wheat pasted makes me think it’s some sort of art project.
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:11 am
I feel for the mailroom staff at the Mexican White House.
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:33 am
These Crazy Talk posters are actually done by a fanatical street artist dubbed Proud Mary. You can see alot more of his bat-shit ramblings on the Flickr – http://www.flickr.com/groups/crazytalk/. It’s widely believed that its one man (he’s been spotted in action before) who originated in Philly but has pasted in New Orleans, Chicago, and other cities. My hypothesis has always been that its Thomas MacFarland, or “Crazy Sign Guy” a paranoid schizophrenic who wanders around Center City wearing his rambling signs, but its hard to imagine this guy traveling. Regardless, I think most of this shit has gone from mildly amusing to downright offensive.
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:36 am
They started cropping up in the West Village in Manhattan about a week ago…
July 22nd, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Those have been all over South Philly for awhile, but not “Mexican Dope Fiend”, it has a picture of Kate Moss and is sort of religious and anti-white female in nature. He really does like to stress the part about keeping your dope refrigerated.
July 22nd, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Do the “at risk” here, dope users know how to get in touch with the President of Mexico? I’m also confused, does the President of Mexico also have the power to end syphillis/rabies/leukemia being carried around by those gay people? I want to protect my family tree….
There’s a woman who walks around the Jefferson campus speaking in monologues, though much more inner directed and less socially conscious. Methinks she and this artist should hang out some time. Things may get done if they team up.
July 22nd, 2008 at 12:26 pm
TOYNBEE IDEA IN KUBRICK 2001. RESURRECT DEAD ON PLANET JUPITER.
July 22nd, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Toynbee is great. About ten years ago he laid huge tiles several feet wide outside Liberty Place that went on and on about his enemies. Here’s the transcript – imagine this in the asphalt at 17th & Chestnut –
“John Knight Ridder is the Philadelphia thug hellion Jew who’d hated this movements guts- for years- takes money from the Mafia to make the Mafia look good in his newspapers so he has the Mafia in his back pocket. John Knight sent the Mafia to murder me in May 1991 [illegible] journalists [illegible] then gloated to my face about death and Knight Ridder great power to destroy. In fact John Knight went into hellion since of joy over Knight-Ridder as great power to destroy.
I secured house with blast doors and fled the country in June 1991.
NBC attorneys journalists and security officials at Rockefeller Center fraudulently under the “Freedom of Information Act” all [illegible] orders NBC executives got the U.S. federal district attorney’s office who got FBI to get Interpol to establish task force that located me in Dover England.
Which back home Inquirer got union goons from their own employees union to [illegible] down a “sports journalist.” Who with ease bashed in lights and windows of neighborhood car- as well as men outside my house. They are stationed there still waiting for me.
NBC CBS group “W” Westinghouse, Time, Time Warner, Fox, Universal all of the “Cult of the Hellion” each one were Much worse than Knight-Ridder ever was mostly hellion Jews.
When K.Y.W. and NBC executives told John Knight the whole town gloated in joyous fits on how their Soviet pals found a way to turn it into a… “
July 22nd, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Sign guy Tom used to live in front of my apartment. I gave him a blanket once during the winter time, and he talked to me and thanked me. No cursing, screaming, etc. Was quite odd to hear him not lace all verbalization with obscenity. He later sold the blanket.
July 22nd, 2008 at 2:24 pm
http://www.resurrectdead.com is an amazing source of Toynbee info, btw. The folks behind that site are making a documentary that will blow the lid off of the Toynbee phenomenon. Well, I hope it does anyway.
July 22nd, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Are there any pictures of Proud Mary? I saw someone post one of these at the Wachovia by the Acme in South Philly a few months back. I initially thought it was a woman, or I suppose an oddly coiffed man. I seem to see these alot in south Philly, though there is a great set of them, on the back of a sign, at the ramp onto Callowhill from North 95.
July 22nd, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Francis E. Dec recycled, right?
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:48 pm
I’ve seen an older man re-pasting some fliers/adding new ones on Broad Street. As you’d expect, he appears to be crazier than a shithouse rat. He sure does get around.