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Vandals’ High Park Door Mercilessly Vandalized by Vandals!

By David Topping

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Photos by Nick Kozak/Torontoist.


It was to be expected. In Friday’s Vandalist, we featured a door that somehow found its way into High Park fully intact, complete with a yellow “Dog Inside” sticker. First spotted by Torontoist photographer Nick Kozak on the morning of Wednesday, July 22, the door stood its ground fully intact for one and a half weeks—until the night of Friday’s Vandalist, when someone smashed its glass to pieces. Of course, there’s no telling for sure if our article led to the smashup, but given the fury that every street-art post here tends to provoke, we wouldn’t be surprised if that rage hopped offline and into the real world.

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  • http://undefined Christopher Drost

    does that make me guilty ??

  • http://undefined rek

    Well shit, there really was a dog inside.

  • http://undefined montauk

    Can dogs get glass in their feet?
    Also, what if we wrongly assumed the door was street art and it was actually, like, a portal? And now it’s been smashed?

  • http://www.twitter.com/vicdezen Vic De Zen

    Erm…perhaps I’m a worrywart but it makes me nervous thinking of broken glass being so close to unprotected paws. Has someone cleaned up the mess?

  • http://www.blog.canoe.ca/canoedossier David Newland

    I really hope you’re not insinuating that objecting to Torontoist’s support of graffiti makes one a likely candidate for smashing the door.
    That would be reprehensible, like one of us implying Torontoist smashed the door to make this non-story run a little longer.

  • http://undefined Tlönista

    Now how am I going to get back into Narnia?

  • http://undefined jcrow

    Yep, Aslan and Col. Jack O’Neil are going to be totally pissed.

  • rek

    Narnia? Not Tlön?

  • http://undefined andomano

    Most definitely!, and it hurts them just as bad as us.
    That’s a real irresponsible pet owner, who risked their pet’s well being for a photograph.

  • http://undefined Scorbutic

    given the fury that every street-art post here tends to provoke, we wouldn’t be surprised if that rage hopped offline and into the real world.
    The reason people get upset about graffiti is because it is basically shitting on someone else’s property, saying “I prefer my idea of how your property should look to yours, so I’m going to change it” and then leaving someone else to clean up the mess.
    I hope nobody from Torontoist broke the door because it would be as disrespectful as a tagger or graffiti artist: messing with something for your personal enjoyment and then leaving someone else to clean up the mess.

  • http://undefined Careygrrl

    Hmm, seems to me this is all part of the show…the original glass door had a sticker that said something to the effect of “Dog inside – in case of emergency please rescue me” – which is the next best thing to “In case of emergency break glass.” If the artist him or herself didn’t do it (exactly 10 days later, after people had noticed Act 1), it wouldn’t be a stretch to imagine some hammer-toting passerby following instructions…
    Shitty about the broken glass though.

  • http://undefined Daniel Contogiannis

    AHHAAHAAA! “Well shit, there really was a dog inside.” That’s hilarious.
    And c’mon guys… let’s not assume anything. Saying rude things about the owner of the canine in the photo isn’t nice and isn’t going to magically change it.
    I’m sure they didn’t let their pup walk through the glass, and he’s not even that close to the broken glass in the photo.

  • http://www.bitpicture.com Marc Lostracco

    It should also be mentioned that it’s tempered glass, which is more like gravel in its shattered state.