Vandal runs out of paint while protesting new apartments in Trigg, Perth

Angry vandal tries to vent their rage with graffiti against developers building luxury seaside apartments… but doesn’t bring enough paint

  • An angry vandal failed to finish graffiti on a development billboard in protest
  • The half-written message calls developers of new beachfront apartments greedy
  • Commenters agreed and said the vandal should have brought along more paint


An enraged local tried to protest the construction of luxury beachside apartment blocks by spraying graffiti on a billboard.

But the furious vandal’s plan to tell the ‘greedy’ developers where to go felt flat when they didn’t come armed with enough paint or ran out of time.

Instead the protest on the sign in front of Yelo in Trigg, Perth, on Wednesday became a point of ridicule and amusement.

‘P**s off greedy de,’ the message read, falling eight letters short but at least doing enough for their point to be understood.

Viewers of a graffitied billboard have been left giggling at a half-written message protesting a new apartment building in Trigg, Perth

The billboard was advertising new luxury apartments promising ‘private beachside retreat’ homes on 331 West Coast drive.

The listing said apartments would have three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and two car spaces. 

The new apartments are set to be built on the site of the Yelo café which is described as a ‘community hub’. 

Several people online wrote that though they hated the idea of the new apartments, they were amused by ill-prepared vandal.

The billboard was advertising a new building of luxury apartments promising 'private beachside retreat' homes on 331 West Coast drive that will be built on top of a 'community hub'

The billboard was advertising a new building of luxury apartments promising ‘private beachside retreat’ homes on 331 West Coast drive that will be built on top of a ‘community hub’

‘Ran out of paint?’ the photographer wrote when sharing the bizarre sight on Instagram.

‘It’s my local and we’re all outraged,’ another said.

‘Could have saved a lot of paint by just writing “c**ts!”,’ another person wrote.