From a BHB Tipster comes a lead on the “gang” who may be responsible for the recent outbreak of (really lame) graffiti in Brooklyn Heights.  This report comes from Cranberry Street:

Hey Homer, thought I’d pass this by you. I was walking the dogs Friday night around midnight in the North Heights when I saw a group of about a half dozen teenaged kids screwing around. They seemed harmless enough, really, but as I walked the length of Willow from Cranberry to Pierrepont, and then back up Columbia Heights, I saw them a couple of more times and came to suspect they might be marking up some lamp posts and the such with graffiti. I heard that rattle sound of a spraypaint can at one point, and then smelled paint too… and they seemed to sort of make a run for it when they saw me. I headed over to the Clark St. subway where I tend to see a police car hanging around in the evening and I told a pair of uniformed cops what I’d seen. I was disappointed by their reaction – the cop I was talking to couldn’t even be bothered to make eye contact with me while he was playing with his cell phone. They didn’t seem too bothered about my report, so I headed back to look for the kids again on my way home. I never spotted them again, and about 5-10 minutes later I did see the cops apparently taking a cursory drive down Hicks St. When I returned to my apt.  where I’d first seen the kids, I noticed there was in fact wet graffiti on a lamp post. I’m attaching a picture here in case you want to run it. Maybe other folks in the neighborhood can keep an eye out for these kids. They were mostly white I think, a couple of them seemed to have “big” frizzy dark hair, and I think one of the kids had a blazer on. Not much help, I know…