Posted on 10/21/2008 10:45:08 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
For the past three days, Michele and Bob Sundstrom and their five children have been painfully aware of the SUV parked in front of their house with a message painted on the rear windshield that says: "Bigots live here."
Their neighborhood near Blossom Hill Road has suddenly become the center of a political tempest over Proposition 8, the ballot measure to ban same-sex marriage.
The Sundstroms said they were stunned on Sunday afternoon when two women parked a Chevrolet Suburban in front of their home and began painting slogans on the SUV to counter the family's huge "Protect Marriage Yes on 8 banner'' hanging above their garage. "Stop Bigots,'' one window read. "God Hates Haters,'' read another.
"All I see when I look at that vehicle is venom and hate,'' said Bob Sundstrom, who said he tried to speak to the women, who walked away and left the SUV behind.
The drama playing out in front of Sundstroms' house on Harwood Road appears to reflect an emerging trend. Supporters and opponents report a growing lack of civility and tensions running high throughout the state as Election Day nears.
The Sundstroms called police but were told there was no crime, and nothing they could do to move the SUV — except wait. If the vehicle is not moved within 72 hours, sometime this afternoon, it can be towed.
Police say they went to the home of the SUV's registered owners, but no one answered the door. The Mercury News tracked the vehicle's license plate to Mara McWilliams and Renee Mangrum, who could not be reached Tuesday.
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Defend your property people.
It sure would be a shame if some of those Earth Liberation guys torched that Evil Gas Guzzling SUV, wouldn’t it?
Just saying...
You can’t control the street.
put a sign on it.....”free car....can’t pay lease”....
is it a crime to let the air out of the tires, or throw tarps over the SUV?
Ohhhh.......good one!
Lefties, showing their intolerance.
I think that they are becoming bolder in their intolerance because of the obama campaign and msm.
>message painted on the rear windshield
1) Just cover it!
2) turpentine!
Public street in front of private property. Can only tow if left for 72 hours straight.
I’ve found in life that one can do much more than they think if they have the will to just do it. One could drape a tarp over the vehicle. There are so many things one could indeed do.
Man I feel it too.
ic... if it is a public street,,, then ? what are the local codes for public demonstrations or protest and if they need a permit ... if they need a permit.. then, it’s a illegal public demonstration or protest.
Hang a sign on the vehicle, free for scrap.
Have others park other cars around it so they can’t get the SUV out.
Well, you could get a car cover, paint “Merry Christmas” on it, and see what they do. After all, everybody loves getting Christmas presents.
There is nothing more depressing than an ungrateful Lesbian Couple, don’t you think? LOL
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Someone should get the license plate number and check with the motor vehicles administration and see if the owner has un paid traffic tickets or parking tickets and call the police... the police could impound the car.
Call parking enforcement and have it removed.
This would never happen on my street....
Spread the word in ‘some’ neighborhoods that there is an abandoned SUV on the street, and as you recall the driver referred to Mexicans as bigots.
.......YES ON PROP 8
.......YES ON PROP 8
.........WHERE ARE YOUR MORALS???
.......YES ON PROP 8
.......YES ON PROP 8
.........WHERE ARE YOUR MORALS???
There are two possible tactics that I think would be effective, here:
TACTIC 1 — The Brute Force of Law
Since the Vehicle Code says...
Removal of Abandoned Vehicles
22669.
...
(d) Motor vehicles which are parked, resting, or otherwise immobilized on any highway or public right-of-way and which lack an engine, transmission, wheels, tires, doors, windshield, or any other part or equipment necessary to operate safely on the highways of this state, are hereby declared a hazard to public health, safety, and welfare and may be removed immediately upon discovery by a peace officer or other designated employee of the state, county, or city.
...just pick a wheel, any wheel.
Remove it, leaving it with the vehicle, and leave the elevated hub sitting nicely on something appropriate; a cinder block or stack of scrap 2x4s.
Phone the P.D. regarding “a hazard to public health, safety, and welfare” citing the above-noted section of the Vehicle Code, and wait for the offending rig to vanish.
TACTIC 2 — The Iron Fist of Humiliation in The Velvet Glove of Giving
At this end of the spectrum there’s the “nice them into abject humiliation” routine. Go out to the curb and REALLY wash the thing. Shoot the works. Take some GOOF-OFF to the nasty paint job, then soap it up, power rinse it down, wax it, buff it out, polish up the chrome, scrub the rims, put a little dressing on the tires. Give it the royal treatment.
It’s been there long enough, now, that all the neighbors would notice, and — with such a dramatic before/after — there’d be no way any of them could sustain agreement with the former signage.
Oh, and don’t forget the coup d’gras: leave a note to the effect that “Thanks for the opportunity to serve you. We hope you enjoy your vehicle all the more now that it’s freshly washed and waxed.”
For expediency, I like TACTIC 1, but for long-term delivery of fresh crow, I REALLY like TACTIC 2.
Answer: These Lesbians
Would it be ok if this family parked a car in front of the SUV owner's house and wrote BIGOTED KESBIANS LIVE HERE? Or would THAT constitute a 'hate crime.'
The children are getting a lesson in leftist facism.
KESBIANS=L
channel locks meet valve stems.
Rather than destroy it, put a lien on it. Get a sherrif’s title to help defray the cost of the vandalism done to their property.
Genesis 19:1-7
The two angels reached Sodom in the evening, as Lot was sitting at the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he got up to greet them; and bowing down with his face to the ground,
he said, “Please, gentlemen, come aside into your servant’s house for the night, and bathe your feet; you can get up early to continue your journey.” But they replied, “No, we shall pass the night in the town square.”
He urged them so strongly, however, that they turned aside to his place and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking cakes without leaven, and they dined.
Before they went to bed, all the townsmen of Sodom, both young and old—all the people to the last man—closed in on the house.
They called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to your house tonight? Bring them out to us that we may have intimacies with them.”
Lot went out to meet them at the entrance. When he had shut the door behind him,
he said, “I beg you, my brothers, not to do this wicked thing.
“You can’t control the street.”
Sure you can. Get a bucket of maggot infested garbage, dump it on the SUV and have it declared a public nuisance.
Easy enough. A paintball gun with several hundred rounds strategically placed should obliterate such hatred (on the SUV.)
You are correct. You can control the street with tactics like those. That would be hillarious.
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