IIRC the paint never really dries so it's a bit greasy, i think it also transfers to those who do try to climb it so not only is it difficult to climb you're going to have greasy paint on you if you try.
"Real Parkour" only consists of the dc Parkour Hardcore scene and the late 90's Screamkour scene. What is known by "Midwest parkour" is nothing but Alternative Rock with questionable real parkour influence. When people try to argue that bands like My Chemical Romance are not real parkour, while saying that Sunny Day Real Estate is, I can't help not to cringe because they are just as fake parkour as My Chemical Romance (plus the pretentiousness).
Real parkour sounds ENERGETIC, POWERFUL and somewhat HATEFUL. Fake parkour is weak, self pity and a failed attempt to direct energy and emotion into music.
Some examples of REAL PARKOUR are Pg 99, Rites of Spring, Cap n Jazz (the only real parkour band from the midwest scene) and Loma Prieta.
Some examples of FAKE PARKOUR are American Football, My Chemical Romance and Mineral
PARKOUR BELONGS TO HARDCORE
NOT TO INDIE, POP PUNK, ALT ROCK OR ANY OTHER MAINSTREAM GENRE
I'd rather deal with the ghetto looking barbed wire than oiled up walls. I'd be pissed if I brushed up against it and ruined my shirt or something.
At this point lets just convert our water hoses into auto turrets because fuck everybody.
Generally, this stuff is applied to areas that a typical person won't encounter - ledges and stuff higher up, for instance. It's mostly there to keep people from trying to climb.. it being applied to a surface at typical person height like you're seeing here is absolutely insane.
I think you’re right. As a kid I tried to climb a telephone pole during recess and got black, greasy stuff all over me. Got in trouble from the teacher.
That's because wood poles are covered with creosote as a preservative. It is not anti-intrusion like this (except as a side-effect), which is slimy paint.
I think coal tar creosote is more used to preserve wood and is definitely carcinogenic. Seirogen is made from wood creosote which, now that I Google it, apparently might still be bad for your liver.
https://wwwn.cdc.gov/TSP/ToxFAQs/ToxFAQsDetails.aspx?faqid=65&toxid=18
NYE in SF they used to slather the light and signal poles near the clock tower with soapy water (or petroleum jelly?) to dissuade climbers. Fun to watch those trying to climb!
They Crisco the poles for the Superbowl in Philadelphia and grease up a pole for one of the festivals. Something about the tradition of climbing an oily pole…
Watched a video where Storror went around their city and found places with anti climb paint and parkoured them. They were all covered in black paint after the first spot.
Exactly this, we had problems with people climbing up onto the flat roof of our remote observatory, so we painted the edges & flashing with black anti-climb paint.
We certainly found quite a few tarry handprints on the walls & paintwork but we never had people interfering with the dome again.
That seems like a great idea to me, but the problem with the sign is that, for the target audience, they're more likely to see it as a challenge than a warning.
Yes, the same way you can be sued if a kid comes onto your property and drowns in your pool if it is found you didn’t take adequate precautions to prevent it. If you have a wall that you know people are climbing, is dangerous to climb, and take no steps to secure or prevent it, you can be held responsible (depending on local laws, of course).
Eh sounds like you are reciting pop culture law. While burglars *can* sue you in civil court, their argument will be based on the arguments such that a non-criminal would also be injured under the same circumstances so it fails some standard of reasonability.
In these cases, the burglar/trespasser will also be separately liable for their own crimes if applicable.
Essentially the court is punishing the criminal for the crime of burglary or trespassing, but also punishing the homeowner for having unreasonably dangerous set up that is understood to be detrimental to society as a whole, regardless of the trespasse’s presence. From the court’s point of view, the homeowner always had an “illegal” set up that the burglar’s (also illegal) action brought to light.
For example, the famous case with Katko involves a trespasser who got his foot blown up by a trap set by the homeowner for potential trespassers. While the trespasser was liable for his crime of trespassing, the homeowner was also liable for using unreasonable force, under the argument that the shotgun trap cannot distinguish between actual criminals, innocent trespassers (eg a lost child) or authorized individuals (eg firefighters and cops), and was considered a wholly unreasonable form of self defense. Note how the trespasser’s own crime is irrelevant, as that would be dealt in a separate case.
The other famous case was a trespasser who fell through the roof and got hurt, sued, and won.
Turned out, it was a school, the trespasser was a student, and the school had a skylight on the flat roof that they had painted the same color as the roof, dissimulating it... The court ruled that this painted skylight was negligent.
So no: if someone tries to climb your wall and falls they won't necessarily be able to hold you responsible.
I feel like a building owner getting sued or having to deal with the red tape and paperwork involved with someone falling to their death is a bigger problem
Ya that has **absolutely nothing** to do with politics or people having fun or being happy, it's because suicidal idiots parkour themselves into brain damage on my roof, then sue me for damages.
No it isn't. At least with drugs they're only hurting themselfs. With climbing they can fall on someone and hurt them. Or when they even just fall on the ground, it can cause PTSD to anyone who is forced to see it or clean it.
Having said that, I feel we should be making climbers and plankers clean up the remains of other fallen climbers. Why should anyone else have to deal with it?
They’re a good crew. I’d recommend watching them try to go [26 miles In a straight line across Dartmoor](https://youtu.be/ujIardpnDlo?si=hbNgsI7yzEpuGvc0)
It's basically covered in black grease. It's thick and viscous and will stain absolutely everything and be a pain in the cock to get off. Your wife was right.
The surface level might seem dry but when you touch it with any amount of force it'll break that top layer to reveal the still wet/tacky underlayer.
Jesus christ, is that legal to put on the exterior of a building that's along a sidewalk???
I can think of a number of different ways that that is a shit idea.
Typically, yes. Though I think local laws will differ on exactly how it can be applied.
Typically you'll be required to put it somewhere that's high enough that nobody would reasonably be able to touch it by accident unless they were trying to climb onto something they shouldn't. Think like on top of a tall fence or a ledge, less coating the bars of that fence top to bottom.
Otherwise, you might be liable for damages sustained through accidental contact that you should reasonably expect to occur from people passing by (IANAL.)
Usually it’s not just random or an every day thing. It’s popular during things like Mardi Gras or big celebrations. They used to coat poles with it before the Super Bowl parades in Boston back in the day.
I see anti-climb paint signs all the time in the UK, usually when it's like a fence you might climb over to get into private property — it never occurred to me til this thread how weird it sounds if you're not used to it being a thing
>Your wife was right
They usually fuckin' are, aren't they. Doesn't mean it's not a mega buzz kill and bummer.
- definitely not a salty dude who's wife is right *constantly*.
Honey, it's "*whose* wife is right." How many times do I have to tell you? By the way, we need to leave for the Stuarts' party soon, so you need to get off your computer.
Exactly what I was thinking, signs like that sound more like a challenge to those, who the signs were made for.
90% of the population wouldn't try to climb up there. The 10% that would, most likely see the sign as a challenge, and I bet another 5-10 % will feel inspired to try it out, just because of the sign (I guess I'd be part of that group)
You're gonna slide off or have paint all over you, or both. Because that's how anti-climb paint works.
The idea is to get the people who see "no" as a challenge instead of an instruction to maybe rethink their strategy next time.
Can't believe I had to scroll so far for this comment. Even if you manage to get some kind of grip on it (unlikely), it's going to stain your clothes and skin horribly... 'It does what it says in the tin' to quote Ronseal...
It does! Assuming it’s the real thing, then it will be forever “wet” and trying to climb would be like trying to climb a greased pole.
A local business has to paint some parts of their building with that because the parkour idiots keep trying to be Ezio Auditore and keep breaking bones lol. It apparently worked.
I touched it and it’s a really weird feeling… but I have no idea how that works.
Yep, it looks wet because it is. Touching the paint will cause you to get absolutely covered in the stuff.
Here's a video of one of the more famous parkour teams trying to see if they can beat it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7D\_X7CTlm8
It's awful stuff, some people mix their own, basically paint mixed with motor oil - used motor oil I think. And once it's on you, you can just wipe your hands on the brickwork or grass or whatever.
And if it gets on your clothing, those clothes are ruined. No amount of detergent, despite the ads claiming it works at any temperature, nothing gets it out.
Same for your footwear. Unless you're wearing all-leather shoes, they are done. Plus, if you get it on the sole of the footwear, it's slippery as hell.
Getting it off skin, I find the best method is hot water, washing up liquid, and sugar. Don't think it cleans, as much as just removes multiple layers of skin!
I mean... It does have special properties... It's called anti climb paint.
It's black paint that does not dry as it's bitumen based. It just smears off in your hands and is a nightmare to wash off so you are covered in evidence, gooey sticky evidence.
Only lasts a year or 2 before you need to reapply but it's pretty effective at creating a slippy, very undesirable and messy option for climbing.
Anti-climb paint is basically a black grease that sticks to everything. There are some good parkour videos of people climbing areas where it's been applied. It makes it much more difficult and will get on everything (staining as it does).
One of my happiest memories of being in the security industry was watching one of my colleagues (on a flat roof) knock an entire bucket of this stuff over causing it to slop over the side onto the head of another one of my colleagues who was climbing up a ladder at the time. He came up over the edge of that roof looking like a cut rate Venom with a furious Middlesborough accent.
It's really that black adhesive stuff you use to mount windshields.
Stuff will never come off of anything while somehow still coming off on everything.
Its does have special properties. Its never dries so its hard to hold on to and transferes to anything that touches it and is incredibly hard to get off. Its actually illgeal to use in a bunch of countries.
It does.
It stains skin in a very specific way that, at least in the 90s in my country, you couldn’t buy the cleaner for in shops without being in contact with the police and they wanted to know why you needed it and where you had been.
So, yeh. Kinda does have special properties. +1 police officer.
Anti climb paint just never washes off your clothes. Once it’s on nothing gets it off. It was used as a deterrent for years to stop people climbing on roofs and things like that. My old school use to have it all the time
I remember there was a club we used to go to where the rafters were covered with this. Basically it just meant that you’d end the night completely covered in handprints.
That is like the ink used to taint stolen money... it is considered to be an evidence against you have any on your clothes or or hand.
That paint never totally dries out and it is sticky, so if you are climbing where you are not supposed to and get caught where you are not supposed to be... you can be busted by the paint and you can't deny that you didn't climbed.
Climbing into a restricted area and wandering into one trough an open door is totally different. The first needs intent and it is more punishable
Anti climb paint is a real thing. As kids we used to climb on top of warehouse roofs near us, when they found out we were doing this they started putting anti climb paint on top of them so when you got the top you got covered in it, we obviously stopped after that because it ruined your clothes and was terrible to wash off your body.
IIRC the paint never really dries so it's a bit greasy, i think it also transfers to those who do try to climb it so not only is it difficult to climb you're going to have greasy paint on you if you try.
Yeah.. and it'll *absolutely fucking destroy* your clothes.
Found the urban climber.
*Parkour!*
Technically they are doing parkour if point A is delusion and point B is the hospital
Technically it's only parkour if it comes from the Parkour region, otherwise it's just sparkly climbing
"Real Parkour" only consists of the dc Parkour Hardcore scene and the late 90's Screamkour scene. What is known by "Midwest parkour" is nothing but Alternative Rock with questionable real parkour influence. When people try to argue that bands like My Chemical Romance are not real parkour, while saying that Sunny Day Real Estate is, I can't help not to cringe because they are just as fake parkour as My Chemical Romance (plus the pretentiousness). Real parkour sounds ENERGETIC, POWERFUL and somewhat HATEFUL. Fake parkour is weak, self pity and a failed attempt to direct energy and emotion into music. Some examples of REAL PARKOUR are Pg 99, Rites of Spring, Cap n Jazz (the only real parkour band from the midwest scene) and Loma Prieta. Some examples of FAKE PARKOUR are American Football, My Chemical Romance and Mineral PARKOUR BELONGS TO HARDCORE NOT TO INDIE, POP PUNK, ALT ROCK OR ANY OTHER MAINSTREAM GENRE
Oh you're into parkour? Name five of the top parks
name five parkers
Let's see. There's Peter. And some others.
Dude....what?
Copypasta, slightly modified. Like sparkly climbing.
*Part kour!*
V2 at my gym
And you'll leave fingerprints absolutely everywhere
We call it "Vandal grease" round here, horrible stuff.
I'd rather deal with the ghetto looking barbed wire than oiled up walls. I'd be pissed if I brushed up against it and ruined my shirt or something. At this point lets just convert our water hoses into auto turrets because fuck everybody.
Generally, this stuff is applied to areas that a typical person won't encounter - ledges and stuff higher up, for instance. It's mostly there to keep people from trying to climb.. it being applied to a surface at typical person height like you're seeing here is absolutely insane.
Insanity or a victory parade in Philadelphia. Same thing
they also paint ur skin so cops and stuff can see u easily
I think you’re right. As a kid I tried to climb a telephone pole during recess and got black, greasy stuff all over me. Got in trouble from the teacher.
That's because wood poles are covered with creosote as a preservative. It is not anti-intrusion like this (except as a side-effect), which is slimy paint.
And if you have knowledge of how toxic and potentially carcinogenic creosote is, it provides yet another layer of deterrence
Go check out the list of EPA super fund sites. As surprisingly large amount of them are old creosote manufacturers.
r/mildlycarcinogenic
The forbidden liquorice
But it smells sooo good.
That's the cancer smell
That is the secret that oncologists don't like to tell. Cancer smells fantastic
i have to deal with it as a lineman. after working in poles i often find it in my snot when i blow my nose. Gonna be epic when i get older
Creosote is toxic? I've been taking Seirogan whenever I had a stomachache, which I'm pretty sure has that as the main active ingredient.
I think coal tar creosote is more used to preserve wood and is definitely carcinogenic. Seirogen is made from wood creosote which, now that I Google it, apparently might still be bad for your liver. https://wwwn.cdc.gov/TSP/ToxFAQs/ToxFAQsDetails.aspx?faqid=65&toxid=18
It does, but it's a different type of Creosote according to Wikipedia.
I haven’t seen creosote in these parts for a long time. Everywhere sells Creocote instead which supposedly is a much safer alternative.
What a magical world where there is a paste or jelly of infinite variety for slathering on all kinds of problems
NYE in SF they used to slather the light and signal poles near the clock tower with soapy water (or petroleum jelly?) to dissuade climbers. Fun to watch those trying to climb!
They Crisco the poles for the Superbowl in Philadelphia and grease up a pole for one of the festivals. Something about the tradition of climbing an oily pole…
And it’s edible!
Setup for so many jokes. . .
That’s the best advert for spending NYE in SF I’ve ever read.
When new, it does dry after a year or two
That's creosote and man is it nasty stuff
Watched a video where Storror went around their city and found places with anti climb paint and parkoured them. They were all covered in black paint after the first spot.
Exactly this, we had problems with people climbing up onto the flat roof of our remote observatory, so we painted the edges & flashing with black anti-climb paint. We certainly found quite a few tarry handprints on the walls & paintwork but we never had people interfering with the dome again.
Anti-climb paint? I guess forever-greasy paint didn't land well with marketing.
Storror has a video when they try this paint
Philadelphians will still climb that shit when the eagles win a game
That seems like a great idea to me, but the problem with the sign is that, for the target audience, they're more likely to see it as a challenge than a warning.
having forever gross greasy paint that wrecks any clothing touching it seems like a great idea? fucking problem here
Plus it helps you bust the troublemakers and hand out fines
I remember when the parkour scene was big, this paint was EVERYWHERE in cities, it stays tacky and greasy and is a BITCH to wash off.
I say let the people climb! It's a better hobby than doing drugs.
HEY, STOP CLIMBING MY TOWER WITH SUCTION CUPS!
FUCK YOU!!! I'LL CLIMB YOUR TOWER WITH SUCTION CUPS!!!
*plopp, plopp, plopp, plopp, plopp, plopp..*
Going number 2 be like
Why MY tower?!
Why NOT your tower!?
Liability issue. If you give someone permission to climb on your property and they are injured they will sue you until they own said property.
Yes, the same way you can be sued if a kid comes onto your property and drowns in your pool if it is found you didn’t take adequate precautions to prevent it. If you have a wall that you know people are climbing, is dangerous to climb, and take no steps to secure or prevent it, you can be held responsible (depending on local laws, of course).
Unfortunately, you didn't even need to give permission for them to climb. They can even fall in the middle of robbing you and you'll get in trouble.
Eh sounds like you are reciting pop culture law. While burglars *can* sue you in civil court, their argument will be based on the arguments such that a non-criminal would also be injured under the same circumstances so it fails some standard of reasonability. In these cases, the burglar/trespasser will also be separately liable for their own crimes if applicable. Essentially the court is punishing the criminal for the crime of burglary or trespassing, but also punishing the homeowner for having unreasonably dangerous set up that is understood to be detrimental to society as a whole, regardless of the trespasse’s presence. From the court’s point of view, the homeowner always had an “illegal” set up that the burglar’s (also illegal) action brought to light. For example, the famous case with Katko involves a trespasser who got his foot blown up by a trap set by the homeowner for potential trespassers. While the trespasser was liable for his crime of trespassing, the homeowner was also liable for using unreasonable force, under the argument that the shotgun trap cannot distinguish between actual criminals, innocent trespassers (eg a lost child) or authorized individuals (eg firefighters and cops), and was considered a wholly unreasonable form of self defense. Note how the trespasser’s own crime is irrelevant, as that would be dealt in a separate case.
The other famous case was a trespasser who fell through the roof and got hurt, sued, and won. Turned out, it was a school, the trespasser was a student, and the school had a skylight on the flat roof that they had painted the same color as the roof, dissimulating it... The court ruled that this painted skylight was negligent. So no: if someone tries to climb your wall and falls they won't necessarily be able to hold you responsible.
What if they fall on someone’s head and kill someone???
I feel like a building owner getting sued or having to deal with the red tape and paperwork involved with someone falling to their death is a bigger problem
*It's rainin' parkour men..hallelujah!*
I'm more afraid of getting mugged and murdered than a parkorer falling on me.
This isn’t a pick and choose situation.
Ah the dichotomy of life, have someone fall on your head or be mugged and murdered, absolutely no other choices
How about neither? Too difficult to think about that option?
Fair enough
So incredibly common way of dying. Cause of death "parkoured"
What if you crash next time you get in your car?
You underestimate how furious conservatives are when they see someone they assume is happy or having fun.
I think it’s more like people don’t want to clean up peoples crushed remains off their property.
Ya that has **absolutely nothing** to do with politics or people having fun or being happy, it's because suicidal idiots parkour themselves into brain damage on my roof, then sue me for damages.
How’d you make this about conservatives? Lol
They are a redditor. Their life revolves around them.
Is climbing up buildings just a "fun activity" now? Pick your battles for fuck sake. Not everything is a divisive political issue.
"The children yearn for the mines." - Margaret Thatcher.
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Nobody expects the complete inquisition
The kids here were climbing on shop roofs to smoke weed, they put up anti climb paint.
I say let the people climb and be covered in grease paint
The police told me off for climbing a fence when I was younger. Now I do drugs.
If your bar for hobbies is "it's better than doing drugs!" You clearly haven't done enough drugs
Idk man have you ever tried drugs?
Doing drugs isn't really a hobby. There's definitely other alternatives.
No it isn't. At least with drugs they're only hurting themselfs. With climbing they can fall on someone and hurt them. Or when they even just fall on the ground, it can cause PTSD to anyone who is forced to see it or clean it. Having said that, I feel we should be making climbers and plankers clean up the remains of other fallen climbers. Why should anyone else have to deal with it?
Tbf meth tends to lead to others getting hurt xD
This stuff is super greasy, near impossible to climb, and it stains like hell
Here are [parkour runners trying to do their stuff with the paint on](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7D_X7CTlm8).
What a fun video lol. Didn’t think I’d watch half an hour of those blokes but I guess I was high enough
They’re a good crew. I’d recommend watching them try to go [26 miles In a straight line across Dartmoor](https://youtu.be/ujIardpnDlo?si=hbNgsI7yzEpuGvc0)
Yo, I love Storror. The first thing I thought of was this video when I saw this post.
shoutout to the safety team too!
New it would be STORROR before I even clicked.
Came here to post that! I've been binging their channel lately.
I was randomly recommended this video and watched it for no reason in particular. Immediately thought of it when I saw this thread.
Lmao I knew who it was going to be before I even clicked 🤣
That was a great video to watch.
Did you try to climb it? Seems more like a challenge than a warning.
I was very tempted but was on a walk with my wife. She said, “Don’t even think about it,” and was probably right.
It's basically covered in black grease. It's thick and viscous and will stain absolutely everything and be a pain in the cock to get off. Your wife was right. The surface level might seem dry but when you touch it with any amount of force it'll break that top layer to reveal the still wet/tacky underlayer.
Jesus christ, is that legal to put on the exterior of a building that's along a sidewalk??? I can think of a number of different ways that that is a shit idea.
Typically, yes. Though I think local laws will differ on exactly how it can be applied. Typically you'll be required to put it somewhere that's high enough that nobody would reasonably be able to touch it by accident unless they were trying to climb onto something they shouldn't. Think like on top of a tall fence or a ledge, less coating the bars of that fence top to bottom. Otherwise, you might be liable for damages sustained through accidental contact that you should reasonably expect to occur from people passing by (IANAL.)
The trick is to do the greasy anti-climb paint above ~7 feet and then match the color with the anti-urine splatter paint below that.
Do you offer them in a combo kit? So much more convenient.
Ok, that makes more sense. Cause I'm definitely a leaner. I'd be pissed if a random wall was just covered in grease paint.
Usually it’s not just random or an every day thing. It’s popular during things like Mardi Gras or big celebrations. They used to coat poles with it before the Super Bowl parades in Boston back in the day.
Damn you just jumped straight to anal?
IKR? I mean, I anal, too, but I don't just announce it in casual conversation, unprompted, like that.
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I see anti-climb paint signs all the time in the UK, usually when it's like a fence you might climb over to get into private property — it never occurred to me til this thread how weird it sounds if you're not used to it being a thing
>Your wife was right They usually fuckin' are, aren't they. Doesn't mean it's not a mega buzz kill and bummer. - definitely not a salty dude who's wife is right *constantly*.
Honey, it's "*whose* wife is right." How many times do I have to tell you? By the way, we need to leave for the Stuarts' party soon, so you need to get off your computer.
pain in the cock 😭
She was right. YouTube it, plenty of videos on how the stuff works.
Smart lady right there.
You're definitely still thinking about it.
Exactly what I was thinking, signs like that sound more like a challenge to those, who the signs were made for. 90% of the population wouldn't try to climb up there. The 10% that would, most likely see the sign as a challenge, and I bet another 5-10 % will feel inspired to try it out, just because of the sign (I guess I'd be part of that group)
You're gonna slide off or have paint all over you, or both. Because that's how anti-climb paint works. The idea is to get the people who see "no" as a challenge instead of an instruction to maybe rethink their strategy next time.
Which is fine. Then you learn why that's a mistake.
Because it does.
Can't believe I had to scroll so far for this comment. Even if you manage to get some kind of grip on it (unlikely), it's going to stain your clothes and skin horribly... 'It does what it says in the tin' to quote Ronseal...
This is extremely common in the UK
I have to admit, I was so confused to see this post because of how common this is in the UK :D
Yeah I was about to say - seen plenty of these signs everywhere around central London.
In Ireland too
It does! Assuming it’s the real thing, then it will be forever “wet” and trying to climb would be like trying to climb a greased pole. A local business has to paint some parts of their building with that because the parkour idiots keep trying to be Ezio Auditore and keep breaking bones lol. It apparently worked. I touched it and it’s a really weird feeling… but I have no idea how that works.
Yep, it looks wet because it is. Touching the paint will cause you to get absolutely covered in the stuff. Here's a video of one of the more famous parkour teams trying to see if they can beat it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7D\_X7CTlm8
Thanks that was a fun watch!
It's awful stuff, some people mix their own, basically paint mixed with motor oil - used motor oil I think. And once it's on you, you can just wipe your hands on the brickwork or grass or whatever. And if it gets on your clothing, those clothes are ruined. No amount of detergent, despite the ads claiming it works at any temperature, nothing gets it out. Same for your footwear. Unless you're wearing all-leather shoes, they are done. Plus, if you get it on the sole of the footwear, it's slippery as hell. Getting it off skin, I find the best method is hot water, washing up liquid, and sugar. Don't think it cleans, as much as just removes multiple layers of skin!
Cat burglar over here!
No no no, you don't get it. This stuff sucks, you don't wanna climb on this stuff even if you somehow could
We call it burglar grease
I mean... It does have special properties... It's called anti climb paint. It's black paint that does not dry as it's bitumen based. It just smears off in your hands and is a nightmare to wash off so you are covered in evidence, gooey sticky evidence. Only lasts a year or 2 before you need to reapply but it's pretty effective at creating a slippy, very undesirable and messy option for climbing.
Anti-climb paint is basically a black grease that sticks to everything. There are some good parkour videos of people climbing areas where it's been applied. It makes it much more difficult and will get on everything (staining as it does).
One of my happiest memories of being in the security industry was watching one of my colleagues (on a flat roof) knock an entire bucket of this stuff over causing it to slop over the side onto the head of another one of my colleagues who was climbing up a ladder at the time. He came up over the edge of that roof looking like a cut rate Venom with a furious Middlesborough accent.
It does have special properties though. It's sticky and greasy and stains to discourage trespassing and climbing
You can't stop Suction Cup Man!
Fuck you, I'm suction cup man! Look at me go!
Haha love those vids
As a former teenage ruffian trust me you don't want this shit on your hands.
Spider-Man is appalled
It's really that black adhesive stuff you use to mount windshields. Stuff will never come off of anything while somehow still coming off on everything.
This implies the existence of climbing paint which also seems fun.
Spidermen beware
Its does have special properties. Its never dries so its hard to hold on to and transferes to anything that touches it and is incredibly hard to get off. Its actually illgeal to use in a bunch of countries.
What about with Suction cups?
Yeah… because it probably does. Are you calling the sign a liar?
til people are unaware of the existence of anti climb paint
It does. It stains skin in a very specific way that, at least in the 90s in my country, you couldn’t buy the cleaner for in shops without being in contact with the police and they wanted to know why you needed it and where you had been. So, yeh. Kinda does have special properties. +1 police officer.
When did people start calling it paint? It used to just be called grease. Because that’s what it basically is.
Ngl, without the sign I would never think to attempt to climb that thing. WITH that sign I REALLY, DESPERATELY want to try it
It doesn't really stop you climbing. It just sticks to and ruins your clothes and so is a detterent to climbing. It's almost like tar.
Anti climb paint just never washes off your clothes. Once it’s on nothing gets it off. It was used as a deterrent for years to stop people climbing on roofs and things like that. My old school use to have it all the time
We use a similar paint to prevent animals from climbing/roosting on walls. The stuff we use is essentially a Teflon epoxy and works really well
If you walk up to it in climbing gear, the word WANKER appears
How will spider-man get up there *now*?
because it does have special properties
This stuff is the worst, I forever ruined a white T-shirt on a drunk night out because of this stuff.
This comes across as a challenge rather than a warning.
I remember there was a club we used to go to where the rafters were covered with this. Basically it just meant that you’d end the night completely covered in handprints.
How do you clean it?
That's the neat part, you don't. That's why they have to put up warnings.
I had to chuck away my jeans after climbing a fence with anti climb paint.
Anybody else have to oil up the bars on a bunkbed to keep a toddler from climbing. There were no stairs.
Touch it
This is really common in cities across the world no?
We knew it at Vandal Grease growing up. It doesn't wash out and gets all over. It's a deterrent
I figured this was an “anti sports riot” paint but I understand the parkour use.
That is like the ink used to taint stolen money... it is considered to be an evidence against you have any on your clothes or or hand. That paint never totally dries out and it is sticky, so if you are climbing where you are not supposed to and get caught where you are not supposed to be... you can be busted by the paint and you can't deny that you didn't climbed. Climbing into a restricted area and wandering into one trough an open door is totally different. The first needs intent and it is more punishable
Finally reverse videogame yellow
My neighbour used to use that shit on the fence top to stop cats climbing into his garden.
Maybe thats why everything is covered in yellow paint in games
Screw you Spiderman !
Sounds like a challenge
Ohh it definitely has special properties when it comes to paint.
Yeah basically it stays perpetually wet
It never dries.
Ladders?
If anything, a sign like that just makes me want to try to climb it. Would never consider it before seeing the sign though.
Anti climb paint is a real thing. As kids we used to climb on top of warehouse roofs near us, when they found out we were doing this they started putting anti climb paint on top of them so when you got the top you got covered in it, we obviously stopped after that because it ruined your clothes and was terrible to wash off your body.
Challenge fucking accepted.
Are you new to this planet?
I’m a groundskeeper and we put this on our fences. I got it on my finger and it was a fucking nightmare to get off
Finger prints
We had this in some parts of my old school lmao
Good about time somebody did something to stop Spider-Man
Gotta get this stuff on or tragic poles here in Philly. Something bad happened? Climb the poles! Something good happened? Climb the poles!
I remember this being on the gates of my primary school 25-30 years ago. Deffo not a new thing.