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Teen tagger, courts pencil out new plan for his life.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 18-AUG-03 		Format: Online - approximately 897 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Teen tagger, courts pencil out new plan for his life.(Crime)(Nathan Calkins works in a new graffiti cleanup project)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Rebecca Nolan The Register-Guard

In three years of tagging, Nathan Calkins left his mark on hundreds of buildings, bus shelters, windows, utility boxes, fences, benches and light poles.

While his friends drank and did drugs, Calkins, now 17, expressed his teen-age angst through graffiti. His prolific "writing" made him famous in the subculture of taggers, and the risk of getting caught fueled his fevered efforts.

Sometimes he'd walk around town with a thick marker in hand and hit every signpost, utility pole, and bridge support he passed. He could wreak hundreds of dollars in damage in a matter of minutes.

He started tagging during the daytime, to increase the adrenaline rush, but found it was easier to escape notice because "no one expects it then."

"I was just having fun, being cool,"...

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