102-year-old wheelchair-bound California man ordered to clean up graffiti on personal property or pay thousands | 21 March 2024 | A 102-year-old California man bound to a wheelchair was ordered by city officials to clean up spray-painted graffiti on his fence or face thousands of dollars in fines. FOX 2 in San Francisco reported that 102-year-old Victor Silva Sr. often finds graffiti painted on the fence of his Oakland home, where he has lived and paid taxes for 80 years. In early March, Silva received a city violation citation from Oakland, ordering him to remove the graffiti by Tuesday, March 19, or face a fine of $1,100, plus $1,277 for each re-inspection that fails. His daughter-in-law, Elena Silva, told that station the situation is "absurd."

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