This is the best way to handle it because if the company presses charges they just look ridiculous.
Don't agree with the company, but I don't find a suit here ridiculous. If my job put up cameras, and my form of protest was to deface and disable them, I'd get fired. This isn't a job, it's government, but it's similar in my head. The people with the authority to do something did it.
Part of putting shit in public is that it now has to interact with the public. If you want your stuff pristine, I would think you should not put it in public.
Maybe the law disagrees with me here, and it probably does because this country bends over backwards for companies, but that's how I see it.
If you interfere with the business model of a large company, they'll eventually figure out something to criminally charge you with.
Felony contempt of business model, and all that.
Isn't this a form of graffiti?
Removing paint takes a long time. Removing glue doesn't take a long time. Removing a sticky note takes almost no time.
If I leave a sticky note on your car, is that graffiti? Is glue graffiti?