Seen in Passing...

...walking home from work today, down Davie Street towards English Bay. A guy stopped as he passed the newspaper boxes near the corner of Thurlow and Davie. He looked at them, frowned in concentration as if he was examining the headlines, and then pulled a large red marker out of his pocket. I moved closer to see what he was doing. He was putting a red circle and a line (the universal symbol for "no") over a swastika someone had grafitti-ed in black marker on the glass window of one of the newspaper boxes. When he was finished, he stood back, had a look at his handiwork, capped his pen, put it in his backpack, and moved down the street. I guess he kept it handy for just that kind of occasion...