Business owner hopes to catch second tagger with viral Facebook video

A Winnipeg business owner is fed up over vandals tagging her Portage Avenue building, so she's taken to Facebook to out the latest tagger.

"This fellow thinks he's doing art," wrote Katherine Peters, owner of Comforts of Care, on Facebook. The sarcastic text accompanies a viral video that shows the alleged tagger in action.

The text goes on to point out that the business being vandalized helps seniors.

"Way to rebel against the man," the post reads.

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Peters said she posted the video which has been viewed thousands of times. As well as posting the video online, Peters has given a copy to Winnipeg Police.

The video clearly shows the face of a young man Peters says wrote his tag - which appears to read "BASKO" - on a trailer owned by her business early on Monday morning.

"If they were doing it just for the beauty of the art they wouldn't be doing it like this. It's like its a kind of a weird thing, not a high goal to aspire to. Like do something with your life," Peters said.

In October 2015, Peters posted video of another tagger targeting her property. That video also went viral and the young man who did it was caught by police. Peters says the man caught in October showed remorse when he met with her recently in mediation.

"He was regretful of his choices back then," said Peters. "He said basically that he was just getting into it and this really made him wake up and say yeah I don't want to travel in these circles anymore, I don't want to do this anymore."

The tagger caught on video in October has since met with Peters and agreed to remove his and other graffiti from her property.

Peters says she doesn't worry about possible negative ramifications of posting videos that publicly shame people who vandalize her business online.

"I'm a busy business owner and I have more than one project going on," said Peters. "So if I let something like this keep me up at night, that would be pretty sad."