Stephen Colbert continued his new feature on The Colbert Report program called "Nailed 'Em," in which the television host hopes to overcome the niceties of the legal system with skillful editing and generous amounts of innuendo. This week's subject was Brooklyn's own graffiti "punk," 6-year-old Natalie Shea.
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You may remember that Shea's chalk drawings - on her own front stoop - prompted a neighbor to complain to the Sanitation Department, which threatened the family with hundreds of dollars in fines. The child's affinity for chalk causes Colbert to dub her a "calcium sulfate" junkie and enlist City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. to discuss the plague of graffiti.
Vallone was game, explaining to the Daily Politics the Colbert Report folks "told me, 'We wanted to speak to the person who is most despised by the graffiti community, and it was you.' I guess they tried to flatter me into it and it worked."
