Graffiti Vandalizes Several Peterborough Businesses Along Lansdowne Street

Several businesses on Lansdowne Street between Lock Street and River Road South were discovered vandalized with graffiti on Tuesday morning.

Photo courtesy of Dean Del Mastro.

Photo courtesy of Dean Del Mastro.

Photo courtesy of Dean Del Mastro.

Photo courtesy of Dean Porter.

Photo courtesy of Dean Porter.

Photo courtesy of Amanda McNabb.

Photo courtesy of Amanda McNabb.

Photo courtesy of Amanda McNabb.

Del Mastro RV Centre, Mattress Outlet and More and Bruiser Automotive Tire were confirmed businesses on Lansdowne Street with the same graffiti tag.

Del Mastro RV Centre had its side exterior wall and front sign vandalized.

“This is no way to start your day. Peterborough is not the city I grew up in or worked to make stronger, it's a mess (Hello City Council),” said Dean Del Mastro, Del Mastro RV Centre owner in a Facebook post. “What exactly would anyone get out of defacing someone else's property? People need to take pride in themselves and respect their community or they need to be taught to do so.”

Jay Quinn of Bruiser Automotive and Tire also confirmed that his business fell victim to graffiti artists in the same Facebook thread from McNabb’s original post. Earlier this month, the business was subject to vandalism, with its glass front door being smashed (but not broken apart).

According to Dean Porter, owner of Mattress Outlet and More, this kind of graffiti was not the first time it had occurred at the store. He believes the incident occurred on Monday night.

“They got my business again—the fourth time in the last two weeks,” said Porter in a Facebook post. “I'm getting tired of cleaning it and then the next day, they do it again. This time, they got at least six different businesses along Landsdowne Street. I have seen the same type of spray painting on different businesses all over Peterborough.”

Porter mentioned that Currie Tire and Peterborough Bearings & Drives were also graffitied but this has yet to be confirmed.

Access Storage on High Street was hit with a different pattern of vandalism; however, it is unknown if the vandalism is related to the ones on Lansdowne Street.

Amanda McNabb, Access Storage site manager, disclosed camera footage of the incident on a Facebook post on Tuesday morning. The video shows that three suspects were involved. One smashed a spray can that went everywhere after the graffiti was tagged.

“I went and got graffiti remover because I couldn’t have that on my building for long,” she said in a Facebook comment. Just wanna know who it is.”

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