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A tagger caught scribbling on a hotel wall was grabbed and covered in green ink in front of cheering patrons.
Quentin McKelvey, 21, an orchard worker of Hastings, was caught at Havelock North's Turks Bar last month, The Dominion Post reports.
When manager Dion Cooper tried to get McKelvey to clean up the scribble he said the tagger started swearing at him.
So he grabbed McKelvey and his thick green paint pen and started drawing on his face.
"I asked him, 'How do you like that, mate? How do you like being drawn on?' I put a bit on his clothes, said, 'Oh sorry, mate, I've just wrecked your clothes, like you wrecked my wall, how did you like it?"'
He then tossed McKelvey into the garden bar, and threw the pen at him.
"There were about 80 to 100 people cheering."
McKelvey was earlier this month sentenced to 150 hours of community work and supervision for tagging a railway control box and a grandstand.
McKelvey said yesterday that he was drunk when he tagged the bar and did not remember much about that night: "I know it's really irresponsible and I've learnt my lesson now."
- NZPA
