So I had head this before, but I heard about it again, and didn't know how many other people had. On February 8th, 2009 Shepard Fairey was arrested on outstanding warrants for bombing. For those of you who don't know who Shepard Fairey is, he's the artist who's O'Bama "Hope" poster gained him overnight success, or the artist who created the "Obey" street art campaign, featuring the word "Obey" and an ink blot drawing of Andre the Giant's face (this is actually a new bit of info for me). I have to say that I would much rather see some other people go down for tagging up other places than Fairey. He's at least got a decent contribution to the street art/graf scene. But in any case...here's the story:

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