--- title: Elderly Australian Man Graffitis Police Station, Escapes on Scooter description: A 61-year-old man in Australia graffitied the outside of a police station with phrases like "DUMB COPS." Then he ran off on a toy scooter. canonical: https://time.com/2865112/61-year-old-man-spraypaints-police-station-escapes-on-scooter/ author: Kyle Chayka article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-13T13:40:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:10:42.324Z og:title: Elderly Man Spraypaints 'DUMB COPS' on Police Station, Escapes on Scooter og:description: He’s a geriatric graffiti artist og:url: https://time.com/2865112/61-year-old-man-spraypaints-police-station-escapes-on-scooter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Elderly Man Spraypaints 'DUMB COPS' on Police Station, Escapes on Scooter twitter:description: He’s a geriatric graffiti artist twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # 61-Year-Old Man Spraypaints Police Station, Escapes on Scooter by [Kyle Chayka](https://time.com/author/kyle-chayka/) ## Kyle Chayka Jun 13, 2014 1:40 PM UTC by [Kyle Chayka](https://time.com/author/kyle-chayka/) ## Kyle Chayka Jun 13, 2014 1:40 PM UTC This is no Banksy. A 61-year-old man in Kingscliff, Australia, spray painted “DUMB COPS” and “KINGY BOYZ RULE” on a police station—while the police were still inside. When the cops ran after him, he tried to escape on a “toy scooter,” according to the [_Gold Coast Bulletin_](http://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/news/crime-court/yearold-graffiti-vandal-led-police-on-a-300m-chase-on-a-toy-scooter-after-spraypainting-the-kingscliff-police-station/story-fnje8bkv-1226951392106). The elderly man even put up a fight, giving one officer a shoulder injury that will put him out of work for a week. “The reasons why he went to these lengths… are quite irrational, particularly with police being in the building at the time,” said detective Brendon Cullen. This was no innocent man, either—he knew exactly what he was doing. Before spraying the facade of the building, he spray painted over all of the security cameras so no one would catch him in the act. Perhaps you were thinking that punk might be dead? Clearly, it is not. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2865112/61-year-old-man-spraypaints-police-station-escapes-on-scooter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2865112/61-year-old-man-spraypaints-police-station-escapes-on-scooter/"},"headline":"61-Year-Old Man Spraypaints Police Station, Escapes on Scooter","datePublished":"2014-06-13T13:40:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:10:42.324Z","description":"He’s a geriatric graffiti artist","url":"https://time.com/2865112/61-year-old-man-spraypaints-police-station-escapes-on-scooter/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Australia","Crime","Graffiti"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kyle Chayka","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/kyle-chayka/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2865112/61-year-old-man-spraypaints-police-station-escapes-on-scooter/","name":"61-Year-Old Man Spraypaints Police Station, Escapes on Scooter"}}]}] ```