Arrest of 73 Year Old Sticker Tagger Answers Question 'Who Is John Scott?'

Banksy might be the biggest of the big in the street art/vandalism game, but our new favorite is John Scott, reportedly the oldest tagger ever apprehended (in California at least). For more than half a year, the 73 year old had been slapping stickers everywhere in areas around Los Angeles which read simply, “Who is John Scott?” According to the few blogs we found mention of the sticker, prior to his arrest, most assumed it was some sort of marketing effort for a movie or a new album, given that the “Who is…?” ploy seems to have been thoroughly overused the past couple of years (e.g.,

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