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A 102-year-old wheelchair-bound man has been threatened with a hefty fine from Oakland officials after thugs graffitied his home and he was unable to remove the paint.
The home of Victor Silva, Sr. is a frequent target of vandalism by thugs in the crime-ridden California city.
Silva, who has lived and paid taxes in Oakland for over 80 years, was faced with threats of a $1,100 fine from the City of Oakland for the graffiti.
The violation citation demanded that the paint was removed by Tuesday the 19th and that an additional fine would be added for each failed inspection in the future.
'It was so absurd, it's like a joke. If you drive around the city and see the graffiti everywhere, it's just I don't know what to say,' said daughter-in-law Elena Silva to KVTU.
A 102-year-old wheelchair-bound man was threatened with a hefty fine from Oakland officials after thugs graffitied his home and he was unable to remove the paint
The home of Oakland-born Victor Silva, Sr. is a frequent target of vandalism by thugs in the crime-ridden California city
Silva, who has lived and paid taxes in Oakland for over 80 years, was faced with threats of a $1,100 fine from the City of Oakland for the graffiti
In his younger years, Silva went to the trouble of painting over the graffiti time and time again.
'Just had a roller and a paintbrush and just painted it. It was very easy because I was a contractor,' he said.
However, since he's been wheelchair bound it hasn't been as easy to cover up the paint on the back fence of his Oakland home.
'I'll be 103 in two months or so. That slowed it up a little bit, you know,' said Silva Sr.
These days it's Silva's 70-year-old son who has to paint over the graffiti each time it pops back up.
'It's hard to keep up with it because as soon as we get it painted, It's gonna be graffiti on it
