A vigilante tagger has graffitied the U’s lower campus two nights in a row with a mystery message: “ASK HER.”
At some point over the weekend, a vandal with a mission painted “ASK HER” with white water-based paint. The words were scribbled all over the sidewalks around the Union, HPER Complex and Marriott Library plaza.
Even after University Paint Shop cleaned up the messages on Monday, the mystery vandal returned during the night with a brush, a bucket and a determination to his or her message.
University Paint Shop found the same messages replaced Tuesday morning all over the same sidewalks, and in greater number, said Paint Shop secretary Terry Erickson. The messages weren’t only left in paint,8212;this time they were also scribbled in green sidewalk chalk.
The U Paint Shop had the second round of messages washed away by Tuesday afternoon. The cleanups cost approximately $1,000, according to the police report.
Campus police have no leads or witnesses on the case, Capt. Lynn Mitchell said.
Adam Millington, a freshman majoring in architecture, said the messages might be some elaborate marriage proposal.
Although it might not have been the unidentified tagger’s intent, it inspired Timothy Paul Travers, a senior, to ask his girlfriend something very important:
“Erika, will you marry me?”
Lucas IsleyThe mysterious ?Ask Her? tags that have show up across campus could be an elaborate engagement proposal but the U Paint Shop said clean up comes with a costly price tag.