Is It Illegal To Draw On Wet Cement Sidewalk

When a sidewalk is being paved in fiction, information technology probably won't dry out before someone leaves their mark in the wet cement. Either during a Chase Scene, where a "Moisture Cement" sign is shown earlier someone runs through it, or every bit a form of graffiti.

This process takes a long time, even with the quick-drying variety. Unless you're in a cartoon, in which case you should avoid this stuff like the plague, because if you footstep in it, it'll harden instantly and probably trap you in it. Someone may besides trap someone deliberately with this method. Results tin resemble Taken for Granite.

While the textile used to pave sidewalks is properly referred to equally 'physical', the sign in front of it is usually labeled "Moisture Cement". Cement is actually the gluelike substance in physical that makes it hard and binds it together, but the sand and gravel (technically called "aggregate") is what makes it useful to walk/bulldoze on or build stuff out of. Mix cement & aggregate, you've got concrete. Add together water and you've got wet concrete to cascade.

Related to Cement Shoes, Sheet of Glass and Fruit Cart.

Examples:

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Comic Books

Happens several times in Mortadelo y Filemón. For instance, on "La máquina del cambiazo", the titular characters are trying to run away so the Superintendent won't force them to enter the titular motorcar. During the escape, Filemón is thrown by Mortadelo over the wooden wall that marks the limit of a construction, and falls correct into a pit of moisture cement. The next thing we encounter is Mortadelo using a giant drill to try and get him out.

Comic Strips

A Calvin and Hobbes strip had the duo discover some freshly-poured cement and plainly sit in it offscreen, only to find out that information technology dried very chop-chop.

Films — Animated

Rookie officer Judy Hopps of Disney's Zootopia ends up standing in fresh concrete as Nick Wilde concludes his Interruption Them Bytalking speech communication to her. Ironically, she stood on that spot to refute Nick's claims and protest that she's not a "dumb bunny". In one case Nick points out that Officer Hopps is standing in newly-poured sidewalk concrete, Judy has no further rebuttal.
In Oliver & Visitor, Oliver and Dodger walk across wet cement later stealing hot dogs.

Films — Live-Action

The climax of The Flintstones takes place at the quarry where Fred and Cliff's fight causes Cliff's rock-keen machine to malfunction, pulverizing the boulders fed to information technology instead of cutting slabs off. Later on, more damage causes a flood of h2o to launder over the stone dust and gravel, some of which gets poured all over Cliff, freezing him in place. Mr. Slate realizes the potential of this new concoction, names it after his daughter Concretia, and declares the Stone Age over.
A famous gag in Gentlemen of Fortune. The fake breakout involves the characters getting into an empty tanker. They become the wrong auto by mistake, so non just are they away from the planned hiding spot, they too need new clothes cheers to this trope.

Literature

In The Unadulterated True cat, Terry Pratchett describes diverse games cats play to amuse themselves. Ane of them is Moisture Cement. The basic play is simple; run through some moisture cement. Scoring maximum points, however, requires conscientious judgement and timing, to hit the cement when it's notwithstanding wet enough to get out articulate paw-prints, merely hard enough that smoothing it out again is going to be a tough job.

Live-Action Television receiver

Malcolm in the Center: In a Halloween Episode, Reese and Dewey throw eggs at an old human'southward house, and they're able to avoid him considering he's very wearisome. Eventually, the boys terminate upwards running into moisture cement, which the man laid out to trap them and so they can't get away while he exacts his revenge.
Bassie & Adriaan: Happens to Bassie in De Reis vol Verrassingen. First, he accidentally leaves his footprints in wet cement next to the hotel they are staying at. Then, when fixing his mistake, he manages to get himself stuck in the cement and has to be freed past Adriaan. Later, after Bassie again fixes the physical, the three crooks following them get stuck in information technology.

Western Animation

Batman: The Blithe Series: In "See No Evil", Batman pursues an invisible thief, who gives away his location by running through moisture cement and leaving a trail of footprints.
"Dixieland Droopy" has a variation. While fleeing from the owner of a flea circus, John Pettibone a.chiliad.a. Dixieland Droopy rounds a corner and finds himself trying to run through a street freshly paved with tar. Being a Tex Avery cartoon, the Dixieland fleas embedded in John'southward fur irksome their music tempo down as John gets bogged downwardly in the stuff, so speed upwards their tempo as John gets his Heroic Second Wind at the midpoint. Once free of the tar, John resumes running at total tilt as his fleas play furiously fast.
The Pink Blueprint: At one bespeak The Pink Panther's antics consequence in the Little Homo going sliding downward a ladder and into a trench filled with wet cement. Just equally the Little Man is jumping out the cement sets, leaving him frozen similar a statue.
The Simpsons:
- In "Lemon of Troy", Bart attempts to write his proper name in wet cement.
- In "Sexual activity, Pies, and Idiot Scrapes", Homer and Flanders terminate upwards falling into a pile of moisture cement. While they're stuck, Flanders begins reciting the Bible.
Happens frequently in Looney Tunes:
- One curt had Hippety Hopper jumping into moisture cement, to the anger of the worker paving the sidewalk.
- On the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Homeless Hare", a construction foreman falls into moisture cement, completely submerged except for his cigar. The worker smoothing down the cement doesn't detect when he falls, and merely keeps smoothing, plucking out the cigar to fume it.
- One Chuck Jones cartoon involving Wile Due east. Coyote and the Route Runner has the coyote smooth a large square of fresh physical across a roadway, aiming to bog downwards the bird in the stuff. Instead, information technology'south subverted when the Road Runner's insane speed parts the concrete downwardly the eye, splashing the nearby coyote with the stuff. The poor coyote takes most 6 steps abroad in defeat when the concrete hardens around him, turning him into a Living Statue.
- In "Information technology's Hummer Time", a true cat trying to grab a hummingbird keeps running afoul of a Neat Bulldog who forces him to spin a wheel to decide which humiliating punishment to inflict on him. 1 of these is The Thinker ^note No! Not The Thinker!, which involves putting the true cat in a cement mixer, and so letting him set into the pose of the Rodin sculpture of the same name. In the end the hummingbird tricks both the dog and the true cat inside the cement mixer, turning them into a decorative bird bath for him.
- Foghorn Leghorn once tried to pour cement on top of the Barnyard Dawg's house. Unfortunately he didn't reckon on the mixer's retractable spout, which instead pours the cement on him.
- The Looney Tunes Cartoons brusque "Wet Cement" is based entirely around this trope, with Daffy constantly leaving footprints on the cement, and Porky constantly smoothing it out. The short ends with Porky burrying Daffy in the cement, having had plenty of the duck's shenanigans.
Twister in Rocket Power falls over head first into the moisture cement of a ramp Conroy was working on subsequently attempting to put his initials on it. This stirs upwards trouble as upon discovering the mess, Conroy closes Madtown until he finds the person responsible for ruining his newly fabricated ramp.
A Running Gag in the Rugrats episode "Spike's Babies" has the characters from the show run through the wet cement of the pathway to Stu's barbecue grill, forcing him to smooth it out every time. This prompts Stu to put upward a rope fence, which the babies are able to clamber under. Towards the end of the episode, after Stu falls into the cement, he gives up and decides to let everyone leave their handprints into the cement.
In the Ed, Edd n Eddy episode "End, Expect Ed", Boil shows his contempt and disregard for rules past casually walking into wet cement despite the caution signs (and Edd) telling him to stay off. Equally he gives his sermon on "rules beingness meant to be broken" to the other kids, Eddy walks out of the cement, his feet encased in two rectangular blocks of solid physical.
In 2 episodes of The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, the Ant Hill Mob terminate up encased in quick-drying concrete. In 1 example, they are freed by Penelope; in the other, past a police officer who tells them that imitating a statue is a serious offense.
Happens in The Fairly Oddparents when Timmy follows Poof into a construction site and tries to stop Poof from falling into moisture cement. Only since Poof is a fairy, he only floats over it and Timmy ends upwards falling into the cement. When they are in another structure site owned by Dark Laser, Timmy uses this to escape, by wrapping himself in foil and jumping into the wet cement, splashing it on Dark Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation and turning him into stone while Timmy escapes.
In The Flim-flam and the Crow cartoon "Exist Patient, Patient", Fauntleroy falls in a vat of wet cement while dressed as an affections (every bit role of Crawford making him think he had died). Crawford, also in an angel costume, tries to slink abroad with his food, merely Fauntleroy pulls him into the cement and the two get covered in cement. Fauntleroy chases Crawford until the cement dries, freezing them in identify. They are put up equally statues on a urban center park, the pedestal reading "Vice vs. Virtue".