Posted on 07/18/2007 8:28:59 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
Vandals Batter D.C. Man's SUV, Slash Its Tires and Scratch In an Eco Note
On a narrow, leafy street in Northwest Washington, where Prius hybrid cars and Volvos are the norm, one man bought a flashy gray Hummer that was too massive to fit in his garage. So he parked the seven-foot-tall behemoth on the street in front of his house and smiled politely when his eco-friendly neighbors looked on in disapproval at his "dream car."
It lasted five days on the street before two masked men took a bat to every window, a knife to each 38-inch tire and scratched into the body: "FOR THE ENVIRON."
"The thought of somebody vandalizing it never crossed my mind," said Gareth Groves...
Now, as Groves ponders what to do with the remains of his $38,000 SUV, he has been the target of a number of people who have driven by the crime scene in his upscale neighborhood and glared at him in smug satisfaction...
Neighbor Lucille Liem, 37, who owns a Prius hybrid, said that a common sentiment in the neighborhood is that large vehicles are impractical and a strain on the Earth -- and Hummers in particular are a symbol of consumer excess... Liem added quickly that she does not condone violence...
Investigators said they are searching for the vandals but don't have many leads. Witnesses saw two men about six feet tall with bandanas or masks over their faces smash up the car about 3:30 a.m. Monday and then run off...
He bought the used 2005 vehicle a month ago from a dentist in Fairfax County..."I'm worried about what I do now," he said. "If I get it fixed, do I put it back in the same spot three weeks from now?"
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Cars for men who need male enhancement.
I like you, and I know you’re not a poser - no one with your fashion sense could be - so I will not laugh at you.
Just be sure your pants are the right size, such that your entire family cannot fit inside them with you. ;)
I had a guy moaning about the constant rain we have had this summer in Houston and blaming it on globull warming. I asked him if he could figure out why I drove a Tahoe and before that Suburbans. He said to transport my big family? I said NO, it’s because the streets in Houston flood after heavy rains and I want to get through without flooding out.
Good for you.
I plan on buying one next spring. It is my dream vehicle. Mine will be safer in the great red state of Tennessee than in the state of Washington. That is what is so great about America,a person has the freedom to purchase any car they like!
Obvious corvette envy.
I don't like having to put my car in neutral and push when my toddlers are inside.
Absolutely!
I have no problem with anyone driving any vehicle.
(Okay, except for grannies driving Town Cars the steering wheels of which they cannot see over. I do have a problem with them.)
I just feel a desire to comment on poserdom on occasion.
Now, that is cool!
I bet you get lots of jealous glances when you drive that tractor to the supermarket.
A former intern had a car like that, and though he was all badass. I raced him in my Crown Vic that had a LOT of miles on it, and handily beat him into shutting up. I loved making fun of his car.
Except I’m a girl.
And my husband has a really cool car.
Go back and smash their beloved Prius.
If he just had the decency to put an old Kerry or new Hillary or Obama bumpersticker on the back all this trouble could have been avoided.
if you lived in the DC suburbs you would know that the POSERS are the dang earthwatchers driving the volvo station wagons and hybrids with the SHARE THE ROAD, ARMS ARE FOR HUGGING or as i saw this AM on my way in to work “WWW.DRAFTGORE.COM”. bumper stickers. everyone has an SUV who has kids to haul around. where would one go OFF ROADING in NorthernVA, you’d have to drive hours to get there@!
Of course I have no problem with them. Those guys are paying patrons, and their entrance fee pays my performer salary.
But feel free to cast aspersions, since that’s what I do, and I am perfectly capable of taking what I dish out.
seriously, that would have saved the SUV, no lie!
Ah...another example of the peaceful religion of Liberalism. Marx Akbar!
Just more hypocrisy from the left.
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