Police Arrest Man as S.U.V. Vandal

NY Times ^ | Feb 20, 2004 | Anon.

[Pharmboy]

Sport utility vehicles made Patrick Dillon see red, according to the police.

In a more-than-two-month spree in Manhattan, Mr. Dillon, a 53-year-old building superintendent in Manhattan, squirted more than two dozen sport utility vehicles with red paint from a ketchup-like squeeze bottle, police officials said.

Last night, the police charged him with criminal mischief.

At 6:40 p.m., Capt. James W. Murtaugh, who was on patrol on his bicycle on West 77th Street, rode past a man also on a bicycle, dressed in a black shirt, black hat, and black camouflage pants, with a black scarf wrapped around his face, holding a squeeze bottle, he said.

"I made a U-turn and I was able to observe a squeeze bottle," Captain Murtaugh said.

Captain Murtaugh searched the man's pockets, and found two other squeeze bottles, the police said, Mr. Dillon's black mountain bike had red paint splattered on the tires.

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Mr. Dillon was carrying a notebook, police officials said. It contained the words, "100 S.U.V's are wearing my colors," and, "next it will be a barbeque," a phrase investigators believe was a reference to setting vehicles on fire.

Police officials suspect that he first struck in December, when reports of paint-daubed S.U.V's surfaced, most on the Upper West Side.

In all, 27 vehicles were squirted.

[Pharmboy]

Arianna Huffington should be an unindicted co-conspirator on this one.

[jigsaw]

I wonder if he was politically correct and used a Heinz ketchup bottle.

[beckysueb]

Those weren't Hienz squeeze bottles by any chance, were they?

[marktwain]

This fellow should be made to pay reparations and punitive damages. They should take everything he has.

[Pharmboy]

Excellent point...although the miserable liberal media would never report THAT.

[Born Conservative]

Which is worse-an SUV vandal, or an SUV owner/driver?

[Pharmboy]

I would think Patrick used an extra fat bottle to hold more paint, perhaps one of these.

[Copernicus]

53 Years Old? Surely a man who has lost his way.

[Pharmboy]

Yep...he might get off with justifiable auto-cide.

[MrB]

Mr. Dillon, a 53-year-old building superintendent ex-hippy loser...

[rabidralph]

Murtaugh? Good thing it wasn't Riggs who caught him. That vandal would be dead.

[Dr.Deth]

Which is worse-an SUV vandal, or an SUV owner/driver?

Which is better - an SUV owner/driver, or an SUV owner/driver repeatedly backing over an SUV vandal?

[Pharmboy]

+Ping+

A Captain on bike patrol?

[JimRed]

A Captain on bike patrol?

Sure beats hell out of sittin' around a stuffy office...

[el_texicano]

And the SUV just sat there and took all this abuse???

I thought from all the articles on how the SUV did this and the SUV did that, in fact one SUV was wanted for rape charges, I thought these SUV's could defend themselves...(Sorry, my sarcasm limit is overflowing here)

[leprechaun9]

He should be charged as a "Domestic Terrorist!"

[RebelBanker]

Ping!

Thought you might get a kick out of this one...

[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[IYAS9YAS]

The vandal. Period.

[Michael.SF.]

Mr. Dillon was carrying a notebook.... "100 S.U.V's are wearing my colors," and, "next it will be a barbecue,"

Now if this guy starts going after my Weber, then he has gone too far!!