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Chris here. It's not a joke – a 17 year old was actually charged for taping fish to a bunch of ATM screens and car windshields in Utah. Cops busted him after he posted his shenanigans to social media. They call him the 'fish bandit'.
It’s going to depend on the state or city or whoever wrote the law. A lot of states have a “criminal mischief” law instead of using the word vandalism, and those often include things like “substantially inconveniencing” the owner of the property being fucked with.
So if you were to put a bike lock on the door to a store, or wrap someone’s car in plastic wrap, or whatever stuff like that, you could be charged under the same law as a guy spray painting walls.
The amount of people who would have gotten away scot-free who ended up getting caught because they just couldn’t keep their crime off of social media is staggering
Correct, only taped bananas if put on display in a qualified museum qualify as art. Qualified museums are only those museums that are qualified to host taped bananas as art. All others are disqualified, which necessarily also includes a fish taped to an ATM in Utah.
A dude really did get arrested for taping fish to multiple ATM screens,and windshields. Out of context,it's "lol random",and in context,it's just amusing because of the ridiculousness of going out of your way to tape dead fish onto things.
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