Lady chased for bumper sticker

Saint Petersburg Times ^ | March 10, 2005 | SHANNON COLAVECCHIO-VAN SICKLER

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Politics has always been divisive, splitting families and turning friend against friend.

This week, though, a Tampa woman learned that simple Bush-Cheney bumper sticker can bring trouble, if not danger, from a total stranger.

Police say Michelle Fernandez, 35, was chased for miles Tuesday by an irate 31-year-old Tampa man who cursed at her as he held up an anti-Bush sign and tried to run her off the road.

His sign, about the size of a business letter, read:

Never Forget Bush's Illegal Oil War Murdered Thousands in Iraq.

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She pleaded with the dispatcher for help and tried to get away by running through stop signs and changing directions.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Apparently this guy is still under the impression that the election is soon? *chuckles* I don't think there is any explanation other than hatred. Perhaps fear.

[BladeLWS]

What's he doing in Bush country? ;)

[Larry381]

Is Al Gore in Florida?

[G Larry]

So, if you're going to be displaying conservative bumperstickers, make sure one of them suggests NRA or CCW support.

[Outraged]

They are truly dangerous...The above gif is not a joke because it is deadly serious.

[ken21]

i took my dubya sticker off my car in july.

there were several minor incidents of people cutting me off.

the final straw was on a 4 lane freeway. the speed limit was 70. i was going 70 in the right lane and a semi-truck was passing me in the left lane.

a guy pulled up on my bumper in a dodge pickup. he went off onto the right shoulder, around me, probably at 80-85.

scared the hell out of me.

perhaps it wasn't the duyba sticker. perhaps he was in a hurry.

but i took the sticker off.

[SquirrelKing]

You lost. Put some ice on it, dude.

[sierrahome]

Note he picked a woman with kids in the car...wuss.

[Scothia]

I just read the whole story. Not surprisingly, the Dem party mouthpiece alleged similar violence by Bush supporters. Fat chance. These whack jobs are always projecting like that.

[ozzymandus]

So did she get his tag number and turn him in to the cops?

[yooper]

Never mind that; did the cops catch him and jail him?

[sierrahome]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1359912/posts?page=11#11

[Viking2002]

What a gutless, mewing little overgrown guttersnipe. I'd give an internal organ to have a non-entity like that try to run me off the road. I'd write the script so that he'd be a shoe-in for a Darwin Award. F*****g Leftist offal.

[CurlyBill]

I wish it was me he tried to chase!

[kstewskis]

That's sad.

In Arizona, I still proudly display my sticker on my window, with a pointy finger angry John Kerry on it, that says:

"SPITBALLS- The Favored Weapon of Those With Neither."

I just might keep it on for the next election...just in case...

[TaMoDee]

I don't think your bumper sticker was the problem. That sort of driving is common on I-15 after a NASCAR race.

[ken21]

it could be.

i live in a college town with lots of anti-w stickers, and the democrats have not taken off their kerry-edwards stickers. the county went democrat, the state republican.

[Dawgreg]

Shoot! I took my "W2004" sticker off my vehicle! Wish I'd have kept it on now. :(

[clee1]

My truck displays a "W in 04" sticker, and NRA sticker, and the tailgate bears a magnetic sign that states: "Driver carries only $20 in AMMUNITION".

For some reason, I haven't had any confrontations with W-hating lefties. ;)

[garjog]

"They are truly dangerous..."

How true. In time of war when terrorists could stage a massive attack on our soil again, we can not permit these anti-American wackos to get near any political power or we are all dead.