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Self-Invented Notoriety
Monday, November 16 
They have finally caught their man in Los Angeles:
Mugshot of one Mr. John Scott
For months, a mysterious vandal has been slapping hundreds of "Who Is John Scott?" stickers on buses around Los Angeles.
Authorities expected the vandalism to be the work of teenage "slap taggers," who hit buses, street signs and light poles with stickers advertising shoes, skateboards, music bands and sometime their own hand-drawn monikers.
But the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's anti-graffiti detail got a surprise when it finally tracked down the man allegedly behind "Who Is John Scott?"
The suspect is old-school -- 73 years old to be exact.
On Friday, detectives arrested John Scott on suspicion of felony vandalism, making him the oldest alleged street vandal they have ever captured. Scott, suspected of causing several thousand dollars in damage, was being held in custody on $20,000 bail.
"Up until this year, the oldest guy we had arrested was 36," said Sheriff's Lt. Erik Ruble. "We knew our guy was older, but not [73]."
That's right--felony vandalism for putting stickers everywhere.
What would drive a man to create his own notoriety and celebrity? Well, Google ads on his website, for one. It's a cheap ploy to drive traffic and hits to a website where there isn't going to be much of a payout for Google ads. It would hardly be anything to base a living off of. Simply registering the url for the site costs upwards of thirty or forty dollars. Good luck earning that back in a year off of Google ads. Without a serious influx of accidental traffic, you're lucky if you can make a few bucks, if that. I looked at his website--his stat counter has barely 44,000 hits. That's a grand total of .44 cents in the Google ad world, on average (I could be off, but I think I'm pretty close on that).