Posted on 05/25/2010 12:03:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Santa Cruz police are working with the FBI to investigate the vandalism of a car belonging to a University of California at Santa Cruz researcher on Sunday morning.
The spouse of the researcher, whose name is being withheld, found the car at about 11 a.m. Sunday with its brake lines and cables to the emergency braking system cut, police said. The damage had left the braking system inoperable.
Officers responded to the victim's home in the 1200 block of Laurent Street and after speaking with the 55-year-old researcher, determined the motive behind the vandalism may be related to the victim's employment at the university.
Unlike targets in the past, the researcher's work does not involve medical testing on animals, police said. The Santa Cruz Sentinel cross-referenced the home's address with a university directory and concluded the researcher works in the biology department.
The researcher was not threatened before the brake lines were cut, police said. No one has claimed responsibility for the vandalism.
attempted murder
Shoulda driven a Prius...
/s
Something doesn’t smell right about this story.....
I’m agreeing with you.
The spouse did it!!!
Okay, Nancy Grace.
A pair of nine inch wire cutters fell out of a Prius that was seen silenty creeping away from the crime scene.
Liberal HOAX ????
Eco-Nuts again
Lib vs Lib. Who to root for?
Didn’t tip the pizza guy again? ;-)
Kinda of a dopey way to try to kill somebody unless they're parked at the top of a very steep hill with a lava pit or a shark tank or something at the bottom.
But it always worked in the movies!
“But it always worked in the movies!”
The trick it to just ~almost~ cut it. :)
I knew I should reroute my morning commute away from the shark aquarium, the lava pit, and the rat trap factory.
Perhaps a spouse’s carnal entertainment is tired of waiting for that long-promised “divorce”.
Eh, one of them was probably having an affair, broke it off and the lover didn’t take it well.
LOLOL...........I would never know if my emergency brake line was cut.
I don’t know where my emergency brake is.
LOL
Vandal? That would put cutting brake lines and disabling the parking brake in the same category as wrapping toilet paper around the high school quarterback’s house. I’d say this is a little higher up the crime ladder than ‘vandalism’.
Bushes fault!
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