HELSINKI — A Helsinki deputy mayor was left red-faced after getting caught spraying graffiti at the weekend, an endeavour that cost 3,500 euros (S$5,174) to clean up, officials said on Tuesday (June 27).
Guards caught Mr Paavo Arhinmaki, 46, and a friend just after the pair finished their graffiti on a railway tunnel wall in Vantaa, southern Finland on Friday evening, during Finland's traditional Midsummer celebrations.Regional maintenance manager Eero Liehu from the Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency told AFP the clean-up took more than three hours and cost 3,500 euros.
"It was a really silly thing for me and for us to do. Somehow I've been lulled into thinking that you can paint on those kinds of grey concrete walls that have already been painted on and that are out of sight," he wrote.Helsinki mayor Juhana Vartiainen was unimpressed. Mr Arhinmaki told Finnish media he did not think his actions were so severe that he could not continue in his role.
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