teroknortailor:

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thegoombs:

chimeracorp:

I’m finding these stickers around town. The url is www. tightrope. cc
This is not okay.

If you want to take them down only do so with another object (something you can scrape it away with). Do not use your bare hands. There have been cases in the past of sickos putting razor blades and sharp objects behind posters and stickers like this to hurt whoever tries to take them down. I’m sorry you had to see this garbage. Stay safe out there.

Bothers me this only has 5 notes. A saw two more at the fucking school I teach at.

reblogging for the PSA about removal methods

If you can, hair dryers work pretty well.
They melt the glue and you can scrape them off easier.
Same with steam.

y’all need to get yourselves a putty knife because these posts say “DON’T USE YOUR HANDS” and then they never tell you exactly what to use instead

putty knives look like this:

and come in various widths, but for this purpose you only need something that’s about an inch or an inch and a half wide and metal, not plastic, because plastic is too flimsy for dealing with stickers and razor blades

you can get them at the home depot or other hardware stores for as low as $1.50 to about $7.00 for a fancypants one 

to make the scraping easier, some sort of oil-based lubrication is needed, but keeping a bottle of mineral oil in your bag could spell disaster for what else is in there, so a tube of chapstick is fine.

smear chapstick all over the blade of the knife and carefully get to scraping the sticker off with it and yeah. be careful.

other tips:

• you may also want to invest in a pair of leather or nylon/nitrile work gloves to afford your hands extra protection and grip if you feel like you need it (the nylon/nitrile ones may be particularly useful for disabled individuals who need a lil more dexterity – u gotta get the right size tho)
• keep the gloves, putty knife, and chapstick in a gallon ziploc bag with some paper towels, alcohol prep pads, and bandaids if an accident does happen
• store the knife with its blade wrapped in paper towel for safety – they’re not particularly sharp but caution is always good
• and keep an empty altoids tin with you to store any blades you may find under the stickers until you find an adequate disposal area

anyways

y’all need putty knives

While this is excellent advice when you’re going on a sticker-removing spree, in a lot of cases you can also stumble on a sticker unprepared, in which case you don’t really need to go home to get your sticker-removing-kit, you can just test the surface by running your nail across it. 

It’s pretty much impossible to hide a razor blade behind a sticker on a smooth surface without it being noticable. You’ll feel a difference where the razor blade is. If the entire sticker is smooth and you don’t feel anything, you can probably try to take the sticker off by hand.

(Stickers with blades are rare in most places anyway, but of course better safe than sorry) 

Stickers are easiest to remove when they’re new so if you visit a place often and you know that sticker wasn’t there a few days ago, you can probably remove it quite easily. 

Also, if you don’t want to remove stickers or if you’re in an area where you need to move fast to avoid getting spotted by nazis, carry some other stickers (like refugees welcome or whatever you like) or spray paint and sticker or spray over it. In this case spraying is best because of course if there are lots of nazis they can also remove your sticker quickly.