Yesterday, we took down the stage at Autonomy. It was something that needed to be done for reasons that I can't write down. Today, we came to the space to rebuild studios over where the stage was and found that the space had been vandalized. There was no sign of forced entry and some of the people that are on their way out were pretty upset about the stage so I'm pretty sure it was an inside job.
Windows were smashed, messages of hate like the one pictured above were written all over the place, dry wall was punched in, a fire extinguisher was sprayed into one of the studios through a hole busted in the wall, paint was thrown around, one of the artists who rents a space there had his art destroyed and there was blood on the walls. It was surreal. Vandalism wasn't covered in the insurance policy and the cops wouldn't care enough to DNA test the blood or pull fingerprints so we didn't call the cops. Instead we just cleaned it up. Fortunately, a handful of our friends showed up to assist in the cleanup.
It's disgusting and I truly despise the people that did this. Nothing can be proven but one of the people that pretended to be horrified later admitted to writing the crap on the boards which, just coincidentally, went along with the destruction that was done. I can't really write anymore about this because it's too disheartening. The space may be done for though.
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