Justin Bieber had permission to spray grafitti on Australian hotel

Yesterday morning, we brought you footage of Justin Bieber spray-painting grafitti all over the wall of Gold Coast hotel in Queensland, Australia, noting that no charges were being filed. Well, it turns out there's a little more to the story. The hotel actually asked Biebz to tag their business and are happy to have the colorful monsters on their walls.

QT Hotel in the Gold Coast said it gave Justin Bieber permission to spray graffiti on its wall. The Canadian singer and others posted images online showing cartoon faces in fluorescent paint on an outdoor wall at the hotel in Queensland state.

After hearing criticism, the hotel changed its Facebook page cover art Thursday to show Bieber, his graffiti and the declaration: "He asked, and we said YES.

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Gold Coast city officials are less than happy about the businesses implicit co-sign of (typically) illegal street art. 

"The last thing we want is to have graffiti glorified and more young people thinking it's a cool thing to do," said Gold Coast mayor Tom Tate, adding that the wall is visible to the public and therefore the hotel can be urged to remove it by the city.