Multiple houses and properties near Unicity were tagged with graffiti on the weekend pointing to the Netflix show Riverdale’s gang the South Side Serpents, according to neighbours.
“Serpents” was written on garage doors and homes on Isbister Street and “SSS” was written on a camper van.
Wong Kin Ling’s garage door was spray painted with big black letters. She said the words were from the Riverdale TV show.
“Not all houses were damaged, just a few. It’s enough to scare you,” she said.
A few houses down is Clarence Nepinak. His camper was also vandalised.
“We’ve had eggs and tomatoes and everything else thrown at the house and I remember the last time that happened I got in my truck and drove down and followed them,” he said.
Global News reached out to Netflix for a comment but hasn’t heard back yet.
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Global News spotted about a dozen properties tagged on Isbister Street, Stewart Street and Bernadine Crescent.
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If your home is ever hit by graffiti you can call 311 and the city will remove it for free.
The city spends about $1 million a year through their graffiti removal team, cleaning up about 20,000 tags but the cold can pose an extra challenge according to supervisor of public service operations Derek Resch.
“In the winter, especially with the cold we’re going through right now, a lot of our chemicals will freeze on contact so it makes it a lot more challenging to use the chemicals,” he said. “We pressure wash a lot in the summer and that’s something we cannot do in the winter as well.”
Winnipeg police said there are some things you can do to deter vandalism and graffiti such as adding lighting and fencing and removing graffiti within 24 hours.
The City of Winnipeg has a reference guide on preventing or removing graffiti on their website.