Posted on 08/26/2011 2:35:22 PM PDT by indianrightwinger
I parked my car that has a NOBAMA bumper sticker at a MARTA station in Sandy Springs near Atlanta Georgia for two days. After my return, the whole car was scratched with keys on all sides. It will now cost me $2,500 to repair the car. Worse, there is no way to catch the criminals and punish them. And, now, I am really scared and worried to express my opinion through bumper stickers, fearing another costly damage.
Did anyone experience similar problems? What recourse do you suggest?
No security cameras at the MARTA station?
Probably MARTA employees or other government funded leeches.
I live in New England where the liberals believe Obama is a gift from God. I have one bumper sticker that I’ll risk on my bright red Chevy SSR for this very reason. “Who is John Galt” is all my bumper says and anyone smart enough will know, while the SEIU thugs are left scratching their heads.
There’s no need to add ‘black’ when you speak of Atlanta.
My husband and I have always considered permanent bumper stickers trashy.
That being said, if you wish to use your auto as a free speech venue, go to a magnetic sign that you can remove in union/liberal parking lots.
My two cents.
Use magnetic stickers next time and when you park at a MARTA station (you do know what MARTA means, right??), remove it. Your bumper sticker isn’t going to work on liberals and welfaristas anyway.
I wouldn’t suggest the last part of that, but you are certainly welcome to be my neighbor. ;>)
get a Bond car , someone touches it ,it goes BOOM !!
“File a police report and ask them to check for any camera video?”
Probably a futile effort. A car parked in a commuter rail lot in Virginia recently had its wheels stolen. Police don’t do anything. They know that even if they caught the thieves, nothing would happen to them.
Hey, I'm a heathen, and I'd never damage someones car for having a bumper sticker slogan, unless it ended with a preposition.
repair the car. Get a better car. remove your sticker and put it on the beater. out fit your car with motion detector cameras in all directions (hd)(lipstick as high as possible) repeat figure out who the dick was then use stripper to paint vandal on their car(s)
BINGO. That is exactly what will happen. Nothing.
Put an old 0bama-Biden bumper sticker on your car. Also put on one of those bumber stickers with the “=” sign on it (for gay marriage). A license plate frame advertising your local PBS station would also help. /s
You can remove them on your way home and reuse them next time.
Keeps the natives happy.
Thank God. I thought I was the only one still telling people to read “Witness”
Put a Hell’s Angel sticker next to your Nobama sticker.
That usually works
about 20 years ago, I was visiting Knoxville TN (U of TN), with my US built VW Golf with a bumper laden with conservative bumper stickers. Sometime during the evening, one or more vandals stole the entire bumper!!!!
Take MARTA, it’s SMARTA.
I rode it every day for a few years. After the 2.5 hour ride home from hell (two breakdowns, three trains and a driver that just walked away and left a train full of people), being late at least once a week no matter how early I left home, oh, and the knife fight in the car I was in I decided it wasn’t worth it.
Happened to me at work plus two flattened tires. These stickers need to be magnetic so you can remove them when you park.
In 2008 I had a friend with a nice car (Nissan Altima) who got a Palin bumper sticker.
I congratulated him, but warned him not to take it downtown for any length of time. Sure enough - it got scratched up while parked.
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