NYPD: Keeping citizens safe from those evil hopscotch-playing children:
Since when is a kid’s chalk drawing “graffitiâ€? Since the City Council passed local law 111 in 2005, which defined “graffiti†as “any letter, word, name, number, symbol, slogan, message, drawing, picture, writing … that is drawn, painted, chiseled, scratched, or etched on a commercial building or residential building.â€
And that, apparently, includes drawing in chalk on the sidewalk/pavement.