[Rockitz]

Let's take this a step further. Here's a few ideas for putting these steaming turds out of business.

1. They are filling the mail with postage paid postcards for people to subscribe. They typically come in the mail in these coupon packs. Send in as many as you can with phony subscription requests (real addresses/fake names). Burn them with postage expenses and fake subscriptions.

2. Take the FREE papers and simply recycle them, then cancel when they ask you to subscribe. Give them no cash, but take as much FREE as you can.

3. Tell stores that advertise with them that you are reconsidering you patronage based on their placing ads in the LA Times.

This will drain them of cash and hopefully help put them out of business.

Signed,

a proud non-subscriber for over 15 years

[Bonaparte]

I've heard of people doing all sorts of things to newspapers they're angry with. It's just shameful how vindictive they can get -- taking all papers out of the rack instead of one (even taking away the rack itself or making it unusable), calling in with endless bogus complaints about delivery of trial subscriptions (demanding a special delivery), leaving nails under the tires of parked distribution trucks or potatoes in the exhaust pipes, getting in long "arguments" with those guys trying to enlist new subscribers in front of supermarkets, giving their reporters bad leads, etc. This sort of thing is reprehensible and deedly saddening. Don't you agree?