Posted on 03/23/2007 9:16:56 PM PDT by george76
Denver police have arrested a 24-year-old man in connection with at least two fires involving Hummer sport utility vehicles in recent days.
An officer arrested Grant Barnes during a routine traffic stop about 11:30 p.m., after finding suspicious materials in his vehicle. He was in the same neighborhood, police said.
A couple in Denver's Cherry Creek neighborhood said their Hummer was engulfed in flames earlier this week, and the flames spread to another car parked nearby.
It's similar to an incident last Saturday when neighbors said they awoke to find Hummer in flames.
According to police, the man is being questioned about other recent vehicle fires.
Police said that the letters ELF left on one of the vehicles was put there several days after the arson.
The ELF may be in reference to the Earth Liberation Front, an eco-terrorism group.
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Did someone inform him that the Prius was recently found to pollute more than a Hummer in its lifetime?
Apparently, nickel-mining is a highly involved process; it is very polluting to make batteries (relative to other technologies on the road).
The eco-nuts discount battery disposal, electrical transmission lines, electricity production and generation...( mining and...).
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I'm assuming Hummers are like all cars and have a lot of plastic in them. Burning all that can't be good for the air.
Apparently burning suv's pollutes the air worse than a life time of driving them.
Burning the tires alone would release lots of carbon ?
I guess this is their idea of freedom ... they want you to have the freedom of choice .. just so long as you choose what they tell you to choose.
You think Kucinich is behind this?
He's pretty scarey looking. His eyes remind me of that runaway bride from a few years ago....
susie
Don't worry, I'm sure he's already paid for the proper amount of carbon offsets.
Agree on the similarity of the eyes.
I heard at that time, that if you can see someone's entire iris (the colored part of the eye), there are "issues". Don't know if that's true, but this guy is pretty much there. As was bridezilla.
Some folks simply NEED killin.......
Semper Fi
Well, if I see someone with eyes like that, I would give them a wide berth, just in case....
susie
"The No. 1 domestic terrorism threat is the eco-terrorism, animal-rights movement," said John Lewis, an FBI deputy assistant director and top official in charge of domestic terrorism.
Put him in jail and pay him Ten bucks a week. Keep him there till he pay's off the Hummer.
Isn't this a form of terrorism? I say we treat ELF in the same manner we treat Muslim terrorists. I mean, you have to be fair and treat everyone the same, don't you? It's only fair.
He chose to practice ecological terrorism, let's throw the book at him.
Cow 'emissions' more damaging to planet than CO2 from cars ...
their wind and manure emit more than one third of emissions of another, methane, which warms the world 20 times faster than carbon dioxide.
Livestock also produces more than 100 other polluting gases, including more than two-thirds of the world's emissions of ammonia, one of the main causes of acid rain.
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2062484.ece
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